Just a friendly reminder that a 40% improvement in high beam output is a bulb swap away. The stock high beam bulbs are sylvania 9005LL (aka long life aka low performance).
Fortunately an upgrade is simple, easy, and cheap: buy a set of 9011 bulbs (I chose the Phillips standard $30 each on...
Ive got a 2021 F150 XL STX with the 40/20/40 bench and vinyl floor. But, I’ve got two kids and a dog, so I still want to cover my seats and collect the mess.
The RC seat covers are listed as fitting the buckets only but they fit the outside buckets perfectly. Pass on, drivers not installed...
I picked up my 2021 STX Tuesday night and like many of you I noticed immediately that the forward lighting isn’t great. IIHS rated the halogen headlights as Poor due to a lack of distance projection both down the road and to the sides.
Most people immediately think “These lights suck! Time to...
Please, whatever you do to your trucks, aim your fog lights. I did this on my lunch break, only took about 30 minutes.
As delivered,vs drivers side adjusted.
The fogs on my STX are 24” off the ground at center. At 15 feet the pattern was on the floor. Generally fogs should be aimed to be...
So some test photos on my drive home, taken from my road.
Fogs only:
lows only:
fogs and lows:
My take is both the headlights and the fog lights are aimed far too low from the factory, similar to my Tacoma. I’m hoping to do some aiming and measuring at lunch today. If my experience with the...
Do you want your bar to have a second switch in the cabin as well, or do you just want it to come on automatically with the high beams?
For the latter, you’ll need a relay harness to pull power from the battery. On my Tacoma I used a posi-tap connector on the drivers side high beam positive and...
I pick up my XL next week and plan to do some testing on my halogen headlights.
Don’t use drop in LED’s, if you care about seeing what’s on the road and not blinding other drivers.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/why-leds-should-not-be-run-in-halogen-reflectors.454371/
Based on my...
Please don’t switch your headlights, high beams, and fog lights to LED bulbs if you have a halogen truck.
High beams are an easy upgrade from 9005 bulbs to 9011 HIR bulbs. 9011 bulbs have roughly 2x the output of 9005 and are basically the same wattage/heat output
Lows are h11 bulbs. The...
If I’m seeing this correctly, your mounts are a couple pieces of bar stock drilled out, and the bolts from the light bar brackets run through the thicker parts of the grill? How stable is the mounting; do you get any shake or bounce from the lights when going down the road?