OK people, I wanted to start a thread about my build. Its a 2012 Ram 1500 Big Horn, black exterior (which I love and hate at the same time ). Anyways I have debaged it, added the vent shade things, Ive order interior LED lights from superbrightleds.com which should be in soon. Also I am attempting to lightly smoke the tail lights. I have an old pair of LED tails off my GMC I am trying that out with. Actually I have heads, tails, and fogs that I am testing it with LOL. I am using the VHT Night Shades, but they seems to be a little on the blueish side unless you use it heavily. Help would be greatly appreciated with that. Ill attach a pic of the tails and heads that Ive smoked. I will be adding a brush guard (or front end replacement, dont know yet), headache rack, and HID's. Thanks for looking!!
Brand new from dealer
Debadged
These are pics of trying to perfect the smoked lights process on my old gmc aftermarket heads, tails, and fogs....Any help would be great as to why they kinda look blue (hard to see in these pics)
Yea dude. 3 hrs at the ER this afternoon. But time off, and some good meds. Price I pay for a small convoy of ATVs... racing, jumping and sliding... and I get paid to do it haha.
Awesome man, the red looks good. Don't feel bad about getting sidetracked by beer, happens all the time. At least from what I think I can remember it does :4-dontknow: Keep telling myself I got to do mine, but I don't think they would show up with the wheels I got on now and they really wouldn't have shown up with the stock ones on. So, front calipers are next and then a turtle wax, then the cab lights with the integrated turn signals... What's after that?
Thanks...yea I had all intentions of getting the front done also, buuuuut my champaign kinda caught me off guard at a real early time of the day haha. I gotta put that leveling kit on too. I didn't get a whole lot accomplished, , but hey I did get intoxicated lol. And that my friend, makes me WINNING!!!!
Awesome man, the red looks good. Don't feel bad about getting sidetracked by beer, happens all the time. At least from what I think I can remember it does :4-dontknow: Keep telling myself I got to do mine, but I don't think they would show up with the wheels I got on now and they really wouldn't have shown up with the stock ones on. So, front calipers are next and then a turtle wax, then the cab lights with the integrated turn signals... What's after that?
So I went to south LA today to pick up a buddys Durango and bring back to Shreveport. The Durango weighed in at about 4800 lbs and the trailer maybe 500. When I got back to Shreveport I was averaging 14.9 mpg and had the cruise set to 67 the entire trip. I was very impressed with the power this truck still had when pulling this load. Ive pulled my 1500 lb boat plenty of times and never noticed it was back. Very glad I bought a RAM!!!
Actually 5% on the front doors and eyebrow, 18% laid over factory tint on back doors and rear glass. Front is measured out to be 4% and back is 7%...yes we do have tint enforcement down here, buuuut, only certain LEO carry measure guns. State police/DOT, Shreveport police WITH RADARS IN CAR, SPD motorcycles, and city marshalls have tint guns. And all those vehicles are VERY noticeable. Plus I know lots of them, so I don't care LOL
ive always just wanted to match my front to the rear factory tint. the state boys back in WI are d***s about tint. We litterally tinted my buddys cummins and on the ride home he got a ticket for it.
and i keep telling myself i need to order my Z sticker. just havent got around to it. im fore sure going to copy your placement as well.
Yep, it really just depends on the cop I guess. When I see one I roll the windows down on the other side. Even though I can get out of it, I don't wanna deal with the sh*t lol
Going to wait for the Fort worth meet in August before I get my tint. I guess I need to start looking at exactly what I want Sense it is sponsored by a good tinting company.
Yep they have a pretty good special going. Even if I didnt have tint now, I couldnt wait that long, its like riding around in a damn fish bowl LOL...Seems like were gonna have a pretty good turnout over there
I want to tint my windows so bad, but I already know I will get pulled over the same day. Cops round here all carry the tint meters so I'd be screwed. I know I could pull the fact the the police's enforcement of tint is only a Table 10 guideline and not an exact law, but god knows a Judge will side with a cop over someone else.
You can do it, if they're that bad, I wouldn't go any darker than 35%. That's why I have plenty of cop friends, so they can get me out of stupid crap like this
Law states that as long as the officer can look inside during the day then it is legal.. now the Table 10 that the local and state PD follow/enforce is that no tint at all. Most PD will not back down from this Table 10 and hand out a $200 ticket for the tint. My buddy got nailed for his tint so I looked up the law, but by the time I could relay it to him he had already paid the fine. So technically I could tint my front windows to match my rear windows, but I would be dealing with getting pulled over until all the police between Tioga County and York County knew me and my truck on a first name basis lol.
Yea supplemental guidelines for them to write up more tickets and put more money in their pockets. Jaron hit it right on the head comparing it to the base rules. I can understand to a point coming up one a tinted vehicle and feeling uneasy about it, but come on, I am not driving some lowered, pimped out Benz am I?? Kinda stereotyping, but hey if the shoe fits then wear it lol. I will probably end up doing a tint that is a little lighter than the back windows just so they can still see in and have less reason to whine, but dangit there will be tint.
One of my buddies that is a DOT could care less about your tint. He wont pull.somebody over for JUST their tint, but if he pulls you over for.something else hes not walking up to the vehicle, you get out. and you wanna be a dick about it, you got yourself two tickets...
The Shreveport cops I know will make traffic stops for just tint. It's kinda an income thing.
And I hear you about the pimped out Benz, your not the only one. That's the way I see it, I'm not jumping out of the truck in a blaze of glory or anything.
SURPRISE MOD!!!
Not really, it just sounds cool, I went an got my eye brown dopped down another 2 inches on the side...notice how dark it is inside and how bright it is outside...I love tint
SURPRISE MOD!!!
Not really, it just sounds cool, I went an got my eye brown dopped down another 2 inches on the side...notice how dark it is inside and how bright it is outside...I love tint
Yep it very nice...later on I gonna have the whole windshield tinted to 50% and keep the 5% eyebrow
No all windows are pretty much 5%, the front is 5%, eyebrow 5%, and back windows were tinted with 18% laid over factory stained glass...Its pretty much even
Where do you want pics from?