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Giving My Truck A Facelift


MastuhWaffles

11/2014 OTOTM Winner
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City
Texas
Vehicle Year
2007
Engine
4.0 V6
Transmission
Automatic
Tire Size
31
My credo
I need more sleep.
I picked up a set of smoked headlights, they have some LEDs and Halos, but they aren't actually HID. So I decided to put them on today, it was pretty simple putting them in, just had to fiddle with them a bit.
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Next I decided too fix my horrible plastidip job I did on the front emblem.
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I just cut these off.
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Clearcoat was peeling off, so I just sanded it and painted it.
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Cleaned and touched up the grille.
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Double sided taped it on.
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Installed.
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Today I picked up some lens tint and tinted my third brake light.
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Done.
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I wonder if hitting it with a clearcoat would make it look nice.
 
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Probably. I know a lot of people that use the night shades will clear and buff them afterwards to make it look and last better.
 
Probably. I know a lot of people that use the night shades will clear and buff them afterwards to make it look and last better.

Yeah it's a little rough but I think I'll get some clearcoat.
 
Take some pictures of those headlights at night if you don't mind. I've been eyeing a set like that for awhile but don't want to pull the trigger based on some of the reviews I've read. Are those spyder?
 
Take some pictures of those headlights at night if you don't mind. I've been eyeing a set like that for awhile but don't want to pull the trigger based on some of the reviews I've read. Are those spyder?

Sure, and yeah they are.
 
I couldn't resist.
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Clearcoat.
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Your new headlights look great. Just a idea on your blacked out emblems, you could get a Krylon gloss black paint pen and go over just the letters on the emblems to make them standout a little more against flat black, or you can go bold with bright yellow. Like I said, just an idea. Yellow is my favorite color on cars and trucks so your Ranger has always been a stand out to me.
 
Your new headlights look great. Just a idea on your blacked out emblems, you could get a Krylon gloss black paint pen and go over just the letters on the emblems to make them standout a little more against flat black, or you can go bold with bright yellow. Like I said, just an idea. Yellow is my favorite color on cars and trucks so your Ranger has always been a stand out to me.

Thanks, I did try to actually paint Ford yellow on the emblem, and that didn't go so well. My painting skills only extend to one color at a time lol.
 
I dig the headlights! The tail lights looks too dark though.
 
I dig the headlights! The tail lights looks too dark though.

They aren't as dark as they look. You can still see the lights fine, I didn't do the heavy stuff like some other people do.
 
I have seen a lot of smoked tail lights that look way too dark until you light them up and see how well they do show.
 
Look to dark to me, but I like barely tinted dark red Haha.

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I have seen a lot of smoked tail lights that look way too dark until you light them up and see how well they do show.

Eventually I'm just getting LEDS.
 

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