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Jealousy is such a bad look.

I think the other thing you're noticing is that the FX4 is the best possible basis for a build. Gives you all the things you need for serious off-roading that are expensive/difficult/impossible to add yourself, without asking you to pay for stuff you'll just want to swap anyways. FX4 gives you...

People who call the terrain modes gimmicks are really missing out. Take the time to learn how your equipment works (you paid for it after all), and I think you'll be really happy that technology continues to amplify off-road performance. Fx4 is honestly great value. A locker alone, in the...

...for their unsafe payload ratings. https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/overweight

They do. I'd recommend doing the install here in Bozeman since MT doesn't have sales tax.

Lemme know if you have any questions.

Judging by the number of otherwise intelligent friends who I've had to explain that headlights can (and need to be) adjusted), approximately 99.9% of drivers have misadjusted headlights.

There's just a whole sphere (get it??) Of shit going on in a housing beyond what marketing lies written by con artists account for. On top of that, our human optical systems just aren't great at understanding what we're looking at, until it hurts us. If a $5 LED bulb could provide...

Do you feel like you're putting pedestrian lives at risk by blinding ever single oncoming driver with all that scattered light?

Yeah, I hear you. I can't take a picture in daylight that's worth a damn, let alone at night. Got a buddy coming up to visit later this week who's a pro, and might have him do some photos of my current setup, and the little Lightforce Strikers we just put on his Santa Cruz. Hood glare is never...

How do you see past all that hood glare?

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Here's another great explainer around all this, written by my friend Andrew Collins: https://jalopnik.com/why-most-led-headlight-upgrades-dont-really-work-an-ex-1843070472

LED headlights, designed from the ground up to take advantage of the technology, are not comparable to el cheapo replacement bulbs intended to be used in halogen housings. To make an LED light work properly, it must first use a diode of good quality, which emits light at a warm color...

Yeah, your truck will look better if your tires stay inside the arches. The factory wheels with 1.0-inch spacers achieve this.

RTR sells a +30 offset wheel. Thats the correct offset for the Ranger. Not only will it keep the tire inside your fender, and save both your paint and everyone else's windshields, but it will also provide the correct scrub radius, which will keep handling tight.

I've got a Raingler dog net, and couldn't really see how the b-pillar mounting tabs were going to work without pulling on the plastic trim every time a dog pushed up against or pulled down on the net. So, I just removed that trim and ran the strap through the two holes in the pillar itself. It...

I'm staying blue light appears brighter, but can't effectively increase useable illumination. I know all this seems a little obtuse, but I spend and awful lot of time driving through remote areas at night. Lights are a safety item. Putting in the minimal effort it takes to get them right will...

And here's a good explanation around color temps written by my friend Jonathon Klein: https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/how-do-yellow-off-road-lights-work He's focussed on yellow vs white there, but similar stuff will be true going from a warm ~4500k halogen to a very blue Chineseum LED...

Those are the bulbs that caused me to write this article: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cars-trucks/halogen-led-headlights/ The TL;DR there is that the human eye perceives cooler color temperatures as brighter, but those temps actually reduce your ability to see at night. Anyone...