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What did you do to your Ram today???

So this happened Tuesday got her towed home out of the dirt today, let my son take it out 4 wheeling. Luckily picking up the new one tomorrow.
Broke the A-arm ripped everything apart attached to them, praise God no one got hurt. Expensive lesson though.
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If you are looking for custom vinyl taking it to a shop would be the thing to do although they would probably charge you an hourly rate to create the decals. I would be curious as well how much the service would be. Since I started doing these myself I feel like I got pretty good at it. I did my fender flares a few months back in brushed aluminum which was a little tricky but I think they look pretty nice.

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Is your truck leveled or just on OR2 air suspension?
 
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Good luck. Did mine last Friday and it wasnt too bad. If you are doing it from the floor, recommend dropping the spare and taking the driver side heat shield off. Also depends on if you are trying to not cut the stock one off and remove it in 2 pieces like i did.
 
If you are looking for custom vinyl taking it to a shop would be the thing to do although they would probably charge you an hourly rate to create the decals. I would be curious as well how much the service would be. Since I started doing these myself I feel like I got pretty good at it. I did my fender flares a few months back in brushed aluminum which was a little tricky but I think they look pretty nice.

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Yeah the sunroof decal you can have customized, think I'll do the King's Colors. They also have certified detailers that will install them for you, one real close to me which is awesome. Thanks for the link.
 
This is a Home Made Light Bar. Watching the Video and seeing the parts needed, I realized
that I already had everything Except the Silicone Tube and the Arduino Code.

You can download the Code from the links in his discription and the Silicone Tube:


I am using the WS 2815 LED Strip. They are 12V powered and have a second Data Line.
This is useful if an LED goes Bad. With the 2811/2812 series if a LED goes out the rest of the LEDs
down the line will not work either. The 2813 is a 5V powered version with the second Data Line too.

I need to work out how to get a separate Brake and Turn Signal Tapped Wire. I am looking at
1 or 2 Electronic Relays to make that happen.

He designed it for European Cars that have the Turn Signal separate and the Running and Brake Lights
in the Same Bulb.

Malodave
Awesome. I have some spare 2813 and a couple ardiunos laying around. I'll have to take a look at the code.

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Gave her a bath today, hand wash, power washer spray, and now my back up cam isnt working. Just a black screen. Opended and shut the tail gate with it on and no flicker or anything. Anyone else ever had that problem?
 
So this happened
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I have the Nilight Bed Light kit and wired it to the existing bed lights and used the supplied on/off switch as a kill switch so I could disable them if needed.
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The two-sided tape let go and I destroyed the switch when hauling cargo last weekend. I decided to use this opportunity to upgrade that basic old switch.

I went with a water proof LED push button to fill that little hole by the tie down ring.
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Completely inconspicuous when on.
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Lit up when off.
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So this happened
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I have the Nilight Bed Light kit and wired it to the existing bed lights and used the supplied on/off switch as a kill switch so I could disable them if needed.
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The two-sided tape let go and I destroyed the switch when hauling cargo last weekend. I decided to use this opportunity to upgrade that basic old switch.

I went with a water proof LED push button to fill that little hole by the tie down ring.
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Completely inconspicuous when on.
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Lit up when off.
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I really need to get around to installing the LED strip lights in the bed.
 
Put my sliding bed to work getting some freeze damaged pool heaters back on line, repairing control issues on some others, and then installing a salt chlorinator at another pool. More than half of the swimming pool work I still do is diagnostic in nature, so I don’t often get to load the bed up to this extent with things I have to repeatedly access (this represented 6 stops) throughout the day. Being able to load the truck with supplies at the beginning of the day, and then reload it throughout the day with the old parts and materials you’ve just replaced, all without real worry of making this or that difficult to get to, is an absolute game changer. Even though nothing slid around, the loadout for the day prompted me to finish the tray divider/stop I’d been accumulating parts for. Besides, any day I get to play with my machine tools is a good day, so...
 

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Finally had time to get the Laramie sport rims on the truck and the falken 285/60r20s.
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Looks good. Need to level the front. The front end on mine seems to be insanely heavy.
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