3rd Gen Quicksand thread

Ocean Beauty...

 

@TacoSeattle is my hero. We should all be more like him.

 

Just traded in my 2006 Honda Ridgeline RTL and purchased this 2016 Quicksand Limited 4X4.

 

Welcome to the club!

 

What wheels and tires do you have on there? Oem or aftermarket mudflaps?

 

Congrats! First quicksand Limited I've seen. Great looking truck. Bet you've been staring at it all day.

 

What wheels and tires do you have there?

 

17" Method NV and 275/70 Cooper Discoverer S/T.

 

Cut and paste from the Overland spec thread, my last two days in a nutshell:

Finally ditched my OEM tonneau cover about three weeks ago on a trip down to Portland, ordered my canopy on the way back home. Truck looks good naked, but no security:



Canopy showed up a week and a half ago, but I was unable to pick it up until yesterday. It's a Leer 100XR with windoor on the left, standard slider on the right w/ petscreen, fixed front slider, carpet liner (free upgrade) and thule tracks. Color match is better than I expected. Leaks a little bit up front where it meets the bed, but I'm pretty certain I'll have no trouble chasing that down.



Built a bed drawer system on the super cheap. Built the box from some 5/8" prefinished maple I had laying around the shop. Put two 2" wide VHMW (much cheaper than UHMW and still slippery) strips above each drawer the full length of the box so that when the drawer pivots down it will still glide easily. Cut a bunch of holes in the box to both lose weight and to give air a place to move through as drawers are opened and closed. Note, box is sitting upside down in this picture:



Drawers are made from 12mm (~1/2") baltic birch. Had to buy this material but since BB comes in 5'x5' sheets and the bed of the truck is 5' there's very little waste. The bottom of each drawer got the same 2" strips of VHMW to glide on and they work surprisingly well.



Box goes into truck and the top lines up perfectly with the top of the wheel wells and the small ledge that runs the length of the truck. Another piece of BB makes a solid platform all the way across the bed. That piece is cut into two in a zig zag joint (very difficult to see in the photo) so that the two halves can both be drilled to the box right down the center support. In spite of the short bed length there is enough room for an adult to sleep diagonally back there, great for solo runs.



Still need to carpet or felt the platform but I'm pretty much done as it sits. Maybe one or two more things to get done. We'll see.

EDIT - For some reason I'm seeing all of my photos cropped off on the bottom, don't know if that's happening for others or not but I'm going to try and fix it.

 

What thread is this?

 

Here you go. Gotta venture out of the 3rd gen section to find it. In spite of the fact that it means commingling with the 1st and 2nd gen plebs, it's still worth it.

 

After watching this thread forever while waiting for my truck to come in, I finally took delivery today. DCOR Manual. What a rig!

 

looks great congrats!

 

Sweet looking truck man! What size tires? Close up pics of the grill please!

 

285/70r17 and this is the best I got.

 

Are the shift points or power bad with the 33's?

 

Yeah I see the size in your sig, Duh! The grill is very interesting, I like it. I don't have a '16, but I really want one. I have an '08 and a '14 both 4x4 sports.