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So long story short the retailer called me back and said the Dirty Life rims were on backorder, so they upgraded me(more Expensive) to the Fuel Vector in Bronze for no extra charge, not the best pics but got them on my truck tonight and so far i really like the look, need to get better pics with some more light haha 17 x 8.5 +7mm offset 265 70R17 No rub with mudflaps installed From this To this, so much better... And all three sets of wheels, the XD Hoss have my factory SRA's for summer use

I'm going with Dirty Life ROADKILL Series Wheels - Matte Black with Black Beadlock in a 17x8.5 and 0mm odffset with the Falken Wildpeak A/T3W Tires-Falken Wildpeak A/T3W Tire - LT265/70R17/10 This will be my winter setup for winter here in Manitoba, Canada, I currently have Blizzak W965 on OEM steel wheels but it is so fugly compared to my summer setup

Also the Falken tire size I picked needs a 7 - 8.5 rim and I want something all black and don't feel like spending a fortune

haha no I was told the that American racing wheel wouldn't fit because of my brakes, I would like to stay as close to 0mm as possible as I like the way my summer tire setup looks giving it a tad wider stance, the factory wheels were 18mm offset.

Well I called them today to double check about the rims and they told me they will not fit haha, so they have refunded my order and I'm going to make another order and I may go with the Ultra Wheels Phantom 225 in a 17 x 8 in a 1mm offset https://www.partsengine.ca/ultra-wheels-phantom-225-satin-black-p-63765.aspx#

Looks to be nothing but likes for these tires, today I ordered a set of the LT 265 70R17/10 which has the 18/32 tread depth, a little more than what I need being load range E and 10 ply but my current 17" Blizzak W965 are the same load range and I find the ride to be pretty good. The American racing Wheels are not a proper fit so now looking at some Ultra Wheels, started snowing here today so looking forward to getting them put on and powering through some of the white stuff, the Blizzaks are amazing in the snow but they are mounted on 17" OEM Steel wheels and it's ugly compared to my KMC XD Hoss wheels haha. I'll post some pictures once they are mounted

Thanks man, I wanted it to be clean and totally reversible as to why I didn't even mount the resistors they just hang which allows sufficient cooling in case they were to get hot, it's a bit more money to do it this way ordering the extra bulb holders and such but I thought if I messed anything up I still have the original ones haha.

I just let them hang, they are light so I don't see much of an issue doing so and if something ever did they are cheap and easy to replace this way.

Very nice work, I thought of getting a little more fancy with it but also thought the idea of easy removal would be nice as well, I can just pop these out and pop the ones with the factory bulbs back in and no one is the wiser haha, heard too many horror stories of warranty issues getting blamed on simple things. The front signals were the last exterior light on my truck that were not LED so I had to take care of that lol, I have Anzo LED tail lights put on when I bought the truck and I still want to upgrade the front HID to the new D2S 35 watt bulbs but I'm waiting till they are cheaper as being in Canada really brings the price up with exchange and all the other fees and such.

Took it all off, so much better

So I went ahead with what I thought would be a good idea for upgrading my front LED signal lights and it worked as planned and was super easy and by ordering two new sockets that hold the bulb I can easily change back to the stock incandescent bulbs. I started out by ordering Part #23382205 from my local GM dealer so as the mod I was going to do wasn't going to affect by chance of me messing them up the original sockets that came in the truck. I drilled from the inside of the socket where the bulb slides into at a slight angle so I wouldn't drill through the fin on the back that you use to grab and turn the socket into the light assembly. Next I fed one of the wires from the 50 watt resistor through the holes and simply lined them up with the contacts that the bulbs make when inserting the bulb into the socket, that being the wire is between the socket and bulb contacts. By doing it this way I didn't have to break into the wiring harness resulting in chance of messing anything up and it was way easier to do this way. The following are the parts I ordered from both GM and DDM Tuning GM Part #23382205 https://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/7443-6xCree

I was thinking of purchasing two of those plastic bulb holders that spin out and drilling into the back of them and running the wires from the resistors through the holes to where the bulb slides in and makes contact, I just haven't got around to it yet. I'll check out the vid, thanks. Chad

I'm looking to see if anyone has done a bulb swap to LED for their front signal bulb in the front, my 2017 differs from my 2014 I had as its just a plastic piece that rotates out holding the bulb so there is no way to add a resistor, I have tried a so called Canbus bulb from "Super Bright LED's" which didn't work nor was it bright enough., and I know the LTZ and up models have LED lights from factory but I wasn't wiling or able to spend another $10,000 above my purchase price of my LT. I went ahead with the upgrade, below I will post pictures and part numbers that I used for uprgading to LED front signal lights in my Silverado LT2 Chad

I got really excited until I seen the price of two bulbs haha, $350 ouch especially when the rest are a max of $85 ??? so for me in Canada with exchange and all that it would prob be like $500 to my door which is insanity

Okay I'm in love haha....