X2 on the congratulations to you both on a happy 1 year of ownership of your trucks. Tiny that sure a good looking FX4 you have. Have you thought at all of doing the turn signal mirror mod at all? I did it on my truck Black Betty and I have to say it still is one of favorite mods and features of the truck now. Not to mention it's simple to do as long as you have the mirrors with the turn signals built in.

 

Alex, it is already on my list for this year. I also plan on swapping the head lights out for projectors and going with the Harley/FX4 black tail lights. This is a base FX4 so it did not come with the black head and tail lights or the 20" wheels. This is what it looked like when I got it last year for comparison purposes.

 

Thanks for the kind words, Rebel! Several Fridays during this year Martinsville Speedway holds a "Fast Friday." They open up the track to whoever wants to come drive on it, and you pay $20 for 12 laps. The office where I work is 5 minutes down the road from the speedway, so I used my lunch break this past Friday to do it. The pace car runs at 65 all the way around. For my part, I was able to top out about 75 on the straights and ran about 45-50 in the corners. It was a ton of fun, to be sure, though I'm sure it was hell on my tires and brakes. I wouldn't want to do it every week by any means, but for a one-time experience you can't beat it.

Very cool story about Rockingham! I'd love it if they could find a way to put The Rock and North Wilkesboro back on the schedule, even if it was just every other year, or something like that. Of course, North Wilkesboro has fallen into a lot of disrepair over the years, and before then it was in bad need of updating. Suffice to say it'd take a lot of $$$$.

 

 

Thanks Russ. Those are 18" and came off a 2013 FX4 and I stripped them down and painted them graphite metallic.

 

Tiny, they really updated the look of your truck. Great choice!


parked at work this morning, she just looked so beautiful.

 

Great picture Russ.

 

(I've never quoted myself before lol)
But as I mentioned last week today was the 2-year anniversary for my Beast . One of my OCD habits that I started with my previous 06 truck is that every year on the anniversary of when I purchased the truck I record the mileage in a computer record so I can track my mileage year-over-year. This morning when I pulled into work my odometer read 47,626.6. I recognize that I have vehicular OCD really bad, and no I am not seeking treatment! As promised, here's a picture of him when I got home this afternoon:
Despite how it may look from here, the truck is actually quite dirty as PA has yet to see enough spring time weather to make it worth washing it. We're still getting snow here, and way too much rain to make it worth a truck bath

 

It is the same situation here in NY and I cheated when I took my pictures. I just finished washing it at the car wash and drove about 100'....lol.

 

Totally agree on how great the FX4 wheels look, and am happy my STX came with the same wheels. You've got me interested in stealing your idea about painting them....has the graphite metallic helped hide brake dust any? I love my wheels, but it definitely doesn't take long for brake dust to start to show on the front.

 

I just put those wheels and tires on back in January and we have not had a decent long stretch of good weather to see how the dusting is. I would say from what I have seen so far, the brake dust would just dull the look of the wheels and is not really noticeable from 10 feet away. If you click on the link in my signature, I have some pictures along with what I have used. I do have to do some touch up work this spring due to paint chipping that happened when the tires were mounted. I feel that the paint will hold up long term and is easy to touch up if needed.

 

 

Now ain't that the truth.

 

Neil, I agree with Russ & say those wheels along with the color choice, made a HUGE improvement
We powder-coated the wheels on my wife's 16' Fusion a few months ago, in some sort of dark gray metallic finish & wow, what a difference that made to those OE wheels

 

The only Pic I've even kept of an odometer was on my 06' king-Ranch, when she hit 123,456


I could only imagine Ceramic Brakes