Bad17BowtieZ71

SOLD

Dropping price to $50. I'd rather see someone be able to use this than cut it up, so if you have any interest, let me know. Thanks.

So I traded my 2006 Extended Cab Silverado 1500 in and took the custom sub box I had made for it out before trading it in. It requires using a rear seat lift kit, which is included, and was originally purchased from a member on the forums and honestly made the rear seat better to sit in anyways. The sub box I made out of 3/4" mdf, glued, screwed, and sealed the subwoofer chamber. The sub is an Image Dynamics IDQ12 in a down-firing configuration. I always thought it produced clean bass and could easily get to some "too loud" volumes for myself. My priorities have changed now and with little ones in the truck all the time, I don't have the desire to re-use it in my new truck. 2/3 of the box has a removable lid that was used for storage of jumper cables, tow strap, that kind of stuff. The gray carpet matched the factory pretty well in my opinion also. I'm asking $80 obo. I'm located in Holland, MI, but would be willing to negotiate a meet somewhere nearby.

There is a fix out for this since the end of September apparently. Just got mine fixed at the dealer this week and it is much better!

So I finally had an opportunity to try the tint experiment this weekend. I recently had my front windows tinted and the tint shop was nice enough to give me a scrap of the tint to try this with. Long story short, it didn't do anything. It obviously tinted everything through the camera, but it did nothing for the brightness aspect. It has to be a programming thing when going into reverse only at night. Hopefully GM will fix this and issue an update for it (haha), it is very annoying!

This is what I've noticed also. Seems like it may be an aggressive auto brightness setting for the camera that when the reverse lights come on it over compensates for the additional light. Once you take it out of reverse, the extra light is gone, the display dims and is at a reasonable brightness for the second or two before the display goes back to whatever it was on before. It got me wondering if we could add "blinders" of some sort to block some of the light from getting to the camera lens? Or maybe a light layer of tint for the camera lens?

The new trucks sit significantly higher than previous generations. I didn't check hitch height, but the top of the bed sides at the tailgate on my new 2017 (6.0 2500HD) are around 5 inches higher than my dad's 2006 (Duramax 2500HD). We just started checking all that this weekend for what I'm going to have to do to pull my fifth wheel.

Maybe I'm missing something in your post, but this is going to vary for each truck/trailer combo. Easiest way would be to hook up the trailer as you are going to travel with it and measure the height of the trailer at the ball. If it's not siting level then disconnect the trailer, level it out, then measure again. The difference is going to be how much additional drop/rise you need to adjust your hitch to be perfect.