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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 04:46 PM
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Well I think now that the weather is changing this may be my final truck project.

Today I replaced the grill with the new 05 style, replaced the standard fog lights with rigid led lights and replaced the stock headlights wth after market euro style lights.

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Just waiting for night time to get the lights properly aimed.

Love the look so far though !!!
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 04:50 PM
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Looks amazing! The grill is one of the best upgrade possible
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 04:53 PM
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Looks amazing! The grill is one of the best upgrade possible
Thank you !!!!
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 06:05 PM
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Looking good. How do new Rigid LED foglights compare to the OEM foglights?
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 07:09 PM
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Looking good!
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 07:22 PM
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Looking good. How do new Rigid LED foglights compare to the OEM foglights?
Night and day difference ! Properly aimed and tweaked it really lights up the road better
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 08:42 PM
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Night and day difference ! Properly aimed and tweaked it really lights up the road better
What did you mount the lights with?
 
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Old Oct 5, 2015 | 09:34 PM
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What did you mount the lights with?
Rigid makes a light mount kit that uses the existing mounting brackets from ford and just replaced the stock housings
 
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Old Oct 6, 2015 | 08:28 AM
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Just thought I'd add a little more detail to this since I did post this in excitement to share with your guys.

Besides the obvious work that as done, what happened "behind the scenes" was also the following:

1. Was going to do HID's but decided this time around to try the Phillips Xtremevision bulbs. I do have to say they do better than "standard" bulbs on the truck. Whenever its time to upgrade again, I'll definitely go with HID's from OPT 7.

2. In all my research, I noticed a lot of memebers mentioning that those type of bulbs had a history of destroying the plugs. I saw over at Pure Diesel Power they sold a Relay Harness kit/upgrade. So while I was in there, I decided why not and upgraded the wiring harness as well, just to guarantee myself that I would have the best opportunity and chance of actually getting brighter light output. Easy well made kit!!

That's all
 
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Old Oct 6, 2015 | 06:41 PM
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Nag, I sent you a PM yesterday about your headlights, lemme know if the ones you took off are OEM.

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Old Oct 6, 2015 | 07:30 PM
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Looks great. I was thinking about doing this too. Do you mind sharing the part numbers used for the lights and brackets?
 
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Old Oct 7, 2015 | 05:51 AM
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looks good! Especially like the new headlights :-)
 
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Old Oct 7, 2015 | 09:12 AM
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Very nice! After I saw what you said about the rigid brackets for the factory mounts, I looked at our (RC) mounts we sell for 2011-2016. I am 99.8% sure they will also work from 1999-2016. I will be testing that out in the next week. Here they are 2-inch Cree LED Fog Light Kit (Pair) for 11-16 Ford Super Duty (F250/350) Pickup [70535] | Rough Country Suspension Systems®
 
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Old Oct 7, 2015 | 12:41 PM
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Jc, how much did that grill set you back? Really updates the front end.
 
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Old Oct 7, 2015 | 08:23 PM
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I just sent you a PM!!


love the looks! hope to see more!
 
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