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Finally, tow mirrors on! Big improvement from the undersized mirrors it was built with. My hands still hurt from fiddling with the harnesses...

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Smoked the tails!

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What up Mike, what body shop did you use and how much did they cost to get them smoked?

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What up Mike, what body shop did you use and how much did they cost to get them smoked?

Deep South Whipz, they are on Veterans just past the airport and it was $120. They had them done in about 4 hours from the time I dropped them off

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Deep South Whipz, they are on Veterans just past the airport and it was $120. They had them done in about 4 hours from the time I dropped them off

. Would have been cheaper at your local flea market. Got my brothers tundra done at one of our flea markets for $120, head, tail and 3rd lights. Is been 2 years and still look good. One thing tho, I don't recommend doing Headlights because it will lower the light output. if you do it, do like 1 to 2 coats. Edited by NitroDatsik
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Deep South Whipz, they are on Veterans just past the airport and it was $120. They had them done in about 4 hours from the time I dropped them off

 

Nice, and the visibility is still good for the previously red portions? I had my last truck lights smoked, but was always nervous I might get rear ended and then they would blame it on the smoked lights

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I went ahead and plasti dipped my Silverado emblems and bowties today. Loving how easy it is to use this plasti dip!!

 

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Nice, and the visibility is still good for the previously red portions? I had my last truck lights smoked, but was always nervous I might get rear ended and then they would blame it on the smoked lights

yes visibility is still pretty good. If you are worried about getting rear ended then just get them smoked a bit lighter than mine. I told the guy to go to the unofficial legal limit which means that you can still see some of the red lens

I am somewhat worried about the same, but if it comes to it, they will try to blame it on smoked tails if they are lightly smoked or dark smoked

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Put the K&N back in today the ACDELCO still looked fine. Ac has about 15xxx miles on it... just going to use the k&n and clean it every 50xxx miles. About to vlean the engine bay e53a76fef0bedd1d2cace94e592e8e81.jpg

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Installed my nose camera today, I will post some pictures when I am not on my phone lol. Worked out quite good actually!

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Build thread or how-to?^^^^

Yeah, coming coming, sometime this week ok?? Been working a lot. 12 hours of work yesterday and 2 hours of driving on top of that. And I spent 2.5 hours installing this! :')

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Sneak peek!!

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I definitely need this with my lifted silverado. When I park in parking spaces it feels like I am about to drive over them then get out and theres four feet of room between me and the other car lol

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