Looks fabulous Dave, I'm envious. Where you are building looks like some place I could maybe handle. A little far from family though.
I grew up in central Wisconsin in a village of 300+ people. We had 9 acres of land with a old farm house and barn and all kinds of fruit trees and berries. I now...
I agree, I don't believe I've heard of anyone with the Lariat LEDs changing them out for aftermarket. If they did it was probably for cosmetic reasons. It has been almost exclusively those of us with the sub-standard halogen lights.
Early one there was a large thread on changing to drop-in LED...
That is fine, it is when people start making absolute statements that gets to me when there is no data to support it. As far as expecting better, I think we all did about a lot of things, but then reality set in.
I want to be sensitive here. I realize this is a very emotional and possibly expensive issue for the people that it happens to. First of all this does not happen to "ALL" of our trucks! Please remember this forum only represents a small portion of ALL trucks using this transmission.
In my...
The first picture is the factory LED headlight, used in the Lariat models, as was said the headlight has no removable/replaceable bulbs except the turn indicator bulb.
The second picture is the factory halogen headlight, it does have removable/replaceable bulbs for high and low beams as well as...
I actually found pulling the bumper the easiest way to change the fog lights assemblies. Once the bumper trim is off, it is 6 large nuts and one connector on the drivers side. And you don't have to have extra joints installed in your arms and fingers to reach all the fasteners. ? although they...
OK, explain to me how a group of LED chips on two sides of a flat board can even be close to the same light pattern as the light pattern of a halogen filement, which is essential a line, emitting light evenly in 360 degrees for a specific length. That is what the halogen reflector is designed...
I've done what the OP is planning many times, and and I only have the 5 foot box. With the tailgate up and latched, the weight the tailgate sees is only part of the total weight of the plywood. It is also evenly distributed across the width of the tailgate. Not sure what the actual limit is, but...
I agree it is a great idea, if it was physically possible for a row of LED chips on each side of a flat circuit board to produce the same light pattern as a halogen wire filement. And these are not even on the same line of focus. The yellow and white chips are offset to each side. That answers...
That's probably because FMVSS 108 and the DOT regs are so incredibly out dated and are in the process of being updated since, I believe 2016. There was recently a special dispensation to allow adaptive matrix lights that have been in use in Europe for years.
Several new vehicles with multiple...