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Korazu Enthusiast

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Personally, I didn't like the Philips. The light was whiter, but not brighter since there are no LED pieces on the distal tip in the bulb. I ordered the JDM white LED lights and love them for reverse lights. I can see so much farther and behind and around the sides backing up. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING THE JDM BULBS!! For bed lighting, I ended up just using the Phillips bulbs since I already bought them and didn't want to piss the money away. I don't use that overhead lamp much, so the Phillips work well enough. The Phillips license plates lights look good too.

I bought the JDM's on your recommendation for the reverse lights, which I love but I also bought the Phillips for the brake lights and was not impressed. I am going to send them back to Amazon and get the JDM's for the backup, front turn signals and the cargo light. The JDM 800 lumens were quite bright and didn't need to pay $10 more for the 1200 lumens.

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Sprayed my a pillars black with SEM Bumper Coater  

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Sure I'll try, haven't posted a pic on this forum yet, but here goes.   Go to Amazon or similar and order these: 1N4004 400V 1A Axial Lead Silicon Rectifier Diodes   You only need one really but

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Added a neodymium magnet to the steering column to hold the key fob still. $18 and a piece of double sided tape. The fob sticks right to it and does not bang around any more.   The magnets were

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Korazu Enthusiast

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Touch more then 50 but I call it the tug box the 50 was 50 itself ce4399437b965e47777d4699ebc9b511.jpg1c9d97ae25190885f8078115a48004c9.jpgdcda3bd404830cdb49333bbf43fbc89b.jpg434f2123757c1ec788f115dd8b32e98d.jpg

 

Canadian winter is coming so figured I needed something for my stuff

 

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Do you have a link for this box?

Ryan698 Enthusiast

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Do you have a link for this box?

Unfortunately no link because I bought it from a local store they just happened to have a bunch at the door they ordered

 

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Darn it good point! I crumpled and tossed out the extra pieces lol

 

 

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do you have the ebay link?

cbrsilv15 Senior Enthusiast

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I bought the JDM's on your recommendation for the reverse lights, which I love but I also bought the Phillips for the brake lights and was not impressed. I am going to send them back to Amazon and get the JDM's for the backup, front turn signals and the cargo light. The JDM 800 lumens were quite bright and didn't need to pay $10 more for the 1200 lumens.

Good luck with that. Jdm leds are cheap and burn out all the time. Id stick with some name brand ones for the peace of mind.

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Do you still have the link?

This is the one I bought and it came with two pieces for the both emblems. With the left over i could have perhaps done the steering wheel and z71 but I just re-ordered more :)

 

http://m.ebay.com/itm/161953750934

 

 

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Sure I'll try, haven't posted a pic on this forum yet, but here goes.

 

Go to Amazon or similar and order these:

1N4004 400V 1A Axial Lead Silicon Rectifier Diodes

 

You only need one really but order 25 as it's just as cheap once you take into account shipping if you try to order just one.

Plus if you bend or break the one diode, you have back ups.

 

 

Then you'll look under your dash above your gas pedal. You'll see a bunch of small power blocks inserted into a larger one.

You want to locate the BROWN one.

At the top you see a release latch. Go ahead and push it in and pull the small BROWN electrical block out of the larger one.

Twist it around so it's oriented with the release latch up.

 

Using the diagram in the picture I've attached, locate pin/cable slot #10. It's obviously 2 slots over from #8 that's marked on the diagram. Insert one end of the electrical diode down into that #10 slot. If needed use a needle nose pliers. The diode pins are pretty bendable so just make sure you get some of it down into the #10 slot.

 

Then go down to the bottom (last row away from the release latch and go to slot #22 (clearly one over from the #21 that's marked in the diagram).

Push the other end of the diode down into the #22 slot.

 

Once you have them both in the #10 slot and the #22 slot, you've made a jumper "bridge" between the two.

Gently twist the BROWN electrical cube back so it's oriented and push it back into it's motherboard. It will click back in.

 

Insert key in your ignition and test it out.

You're FOG LIGHTS should automatically be ON if your low beam headlights are ON.

When your low beam headlights are OFF, the fog lights will also be OFF.

 

You can now just leave the dash mounted headlight selector in AUTO and your low beams and your fog lights will both automatically come on each and every time your headlights come on, and go off when the headlights go off.

All done.

Thanks for this! I just got my diodes tonight so will put one in tomorrow morning.

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Frame Plugs

 

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Caps that cover the holes and keeps dirt, mud, critters from getting in there.

 

 

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Got these an they really clean up the look of the rear of the truck, thanks for the suggestion

 

 

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Phillips 921 LED / T16 (12789LPB2) Bright White Vision LED - 2 pack. You'll need 2 packs for a total of 4 bulbs.

 

Phillips 194 Bright White Interior for the License Plate bulbs - 2 pack.

 

 

 

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Both sets of these bulbs are 25% off right now at amazon. Have to place separate orders though.

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bndawgs Senior Enthusiast

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Did you guys self install the driver assist handle? Dealer wants to charge $100 for it

 

Wow, I'd love to charge someone $100 to install that handle. Took me about 25 mins and that was being extremely careful and being interrupted.

Lalibert Enthusiast

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Both sets of these bulbs are 25% off right now at amazon. Have to place separate orders though.

Just got these installed they look so much better than stock because they are a true white instead of the yellow, in terms of the backup light output i noticed a slight improvement in the camera view, but I am not a good judge as I just got my driver and passenger windows tinted today too...needless to say that has a little bit of an effect on it..haha

 

 

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