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    Bought the sports bar from the dealership.....knocked off 10% for $900.....has a prewired CMHSL which is powered from the fuse box under the hood. Also available over the internet, but not worth it since the shipping charges will exceed any savings.......weighs about 30 lbs but extremely bulky coming on a box that takes up the whole bed.....let the dealer absorb the shipping! Front part mounts on top of the rail in a stake hole........back protrudes 3/8" on the sides of the top rail where most roll up tonneau covers mount but a total 3/4"variance in width shouldn't interfere with the rollers......leakage over normal leakage for a roll up shouldn't be too much of a problem using a little silicone to take up any slight gap
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    All leather backseat
    All leather backseat? - I don't think so....auto makers have been scamming us for a long time with their "leather" option ........The sticker on my '16 Silverado Z71's $1,195 option reads: "Seats...front leather appointed seating surfaces and heated driver and front passenger". That means that the portion of the seats where your ass and back touch are leather, every other surface is a very nice polymer substitute and since the sticker doesn't even mention the rear seats, it's likely they are all polymer surfaces. And even the "leather" is not a skin how it comes off the animal, but "bonded leather", i.e. ground leather micro dust bonded with a polymer and "painted", not tanned, just like many sofas on the market.
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    Or worse a '97 era Plymouth Voyager, the only vehicle I ever got rid of solely because of its crappy lights. Best were my Avalanches' with a 4 headlight setup with two of them low/high beams (like my old '60 Impala) so you could operate with 4 high beams. Of course on a pea soup foggy night on the mountain you can't use highs anyway or they'll white out the windshield.
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    All this discussion about keeping fogs on with high beams must involve people in States where there is no yearly safety inspection or States with lax lighting laws. Failure of fog lights to automatically turn off with high beams is an instant flunk in WV, VA and likely a number of other States and even the existence of aftermarket, non OEM, lighting an immediate flunk in others.....had to rip out the aftermarket fogs moving from NY to pass NJ inspection. And automatic means no manual turn off switch, pulling fuses or bulbs either to pass inspection. If the vehicle has a fog light, it has to automatically switch on and off as per State law when switching from low beams to high beams and back.
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