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big_country33 Enthusiast

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Agreed, that is a good link, hahaha.

 

Truck looks a lot better now without the covers.

Next thing I would do is remove the front valence. I just removed from my dads 2011 after he loved how I made mine look.

Also I would do the 2" level on the front. I would never go back to that down hill slope look. Level is where its at. Also i would paint that bowtie black. I just painted my dads yesterday, will put back on today.

Final thing would be to put a strip of tint on windshield top. Both good looking and useful against sun rays.

 

 

In my OP I have the 2.5" level waiting to be picked up when I go down to WV next weekend for some atv'ing. Any reason why you only went 2" ? I was told I'd be safe with 2.5" and I found on my last truck 2" didn't quite do it level.

 

And in your opinion black would look better then color match for the bowtie ? I'm kinda leery on black now since the covers didnt match 1 bit lol

 

What would you think about color matching the plastic silver piece behind my bull bar , and the bowtie ?

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GasHog369 Senior Enthusiast

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Yea I saw u have the 2.5 coming in but IMO and what was recommended to me was 2". As is parking in different spots I notice the front to be possibly a little higher. Kinda going towards Cali look. Plus once u do throw something heavy in back or tow you will really be putting the nose in air.

 

You could try color matching the bowtie. Not sure bout other piece. Black would go with the voids in between grill. But color matching would probably look good to. More personal preference. I debated my bowtie color for a coupe weeks before committing to it.lol

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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Colormatched front with either a black bowtie or machined bowtie depending on wheels/accessories.

 

If you leave the front chrome, I would Colormatch the bowtie.

 

But for the love of god, don't put those black spare looking things on your truck. I mean the wheels could kinda work if all of your chrome was gone and the truck had an aggressive stance, but they do not work with all of those different finishes.

big_country33 Enthusiast

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Colormatched front with either a black bowtie or machined bowtie depending on wheels/accessories.

 

If you leave the front chrome, I would Colormatch the bowtie.

 

But for the love of god, don't put those black spare looking things on your truck. I mean the wheels could kinda work if all of your chrome was gone and the truck had an aggressive stance, but they do not work with all of those different finishes.

Spare looking things :P lol thought you loved them !!! Hahaha

Here is a pic of my last truck and where all these add ons are coming from because I had them allready. It looks awesome I think. Why can't I get the same look out of my new truck :S ?

 

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Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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If you didn't want to have the silver part of your valance that is behind the bull bar painted to match, you could always replace it with the black textured piece. I'm going to do that with mine here soon for now, then after the truck is paid for I'm going to do the HD front clip conversion. Your's looks way better after taking the light covers off though. :thumbs:

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If you didn't want to have the silver part of your valance that is behind the bull bar painted to match, you could always replace it with the black textured piece. I'm going to do that with mine here soon for now, then after it's paid for I'm going to do the HD front clip conversion. Your's looks way better after taking the light covers off though. :thumbs:

Think that piece behind the bullbar would look good color matched ? And the bowtie matched ?

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