Love Hate

What is one modification on your truck that you absolutely love on your truck?

Also what is one modification that you absolutely hate on your truck?

Also what’s the cheapest modification you have made?

 

Love - factory LED headlight upgrade, wish i did it a long time ago

Hate - Audiocontrol D-6.1200 dsp amp
$1200 for a high noise floor, terrible UI, and limited dsp functions

Cheapest - clutch accumulator delete mod

 

Best - full set of RCI aluminum skids

Worst - none

Cheapest - AC drain mod

 

Best: KDMax Pro Tune and Meso Total Tail Stage 1 (tie)

Worst: Really none that I dislike

Cheapest: Black steering wheel emblem overlay to get rid of that chrome look staring me in the face.

 

Best - Pay-off mod.

Worst - none

Cheapest - free grille found in an autobody shop's scrap parts pile. Only needed some paint.

 

I only do mods that i need. It'd be stupid to do something i'm not going to like.

 

Payoff probably the best but not the sexiest. Second is I got it a big brother

don’t hate any, I think about most things before I do it. Maybe the one that bugs me the most is the OEM pro grille, there were no aftermarket ones when I got mine installed September 2016 when there were barely any pros around ~ that I saw. Then everyone over the next few years had them… and still going. I still like it the best but don’t feel the love for it I used to. Next might be all the cheapo interior LED’s over 2016-2017 from various places that crapped out over and over. Probably went through 6-7 different sets before finding Meso and vled in 2018.

spiked hood.

 

That's very true, but I suppose it's possible that someone could do a mod that doesn't turn out to be quite what they expected despite research and the best of intentions.

 

Best - Desert Does It front seat jackers, I could drive for about an hour before, all day now

Worst - none

Cheapest - Removed stickers/badges

 

Best: Probably smoked tail lamps from Cali Raised of maybe Meso, can't remember which..but looks great against the Quicksand.

Worst: None yet

Cheapest: Probably interior LEDs but not installed yet cuz my fingers are too fat to get the old ones out.

 

Love- new to me bed topper and DECKED system
Hate- the hit my MPG took with lift, tires, topper, and DECKED
Cheapest- OE bed mat is about the best and cheapest addition

 

Best: Probably bed mat, it is non-optional for our trucks.

Worst: None, but if I had to choose probably Screen ProTech Kit. It added a slight glare that is worse than stock imo. Still nice to have though. If the sun is behind me it sometimes shines perfectly into my eyes.

Cheapest: RAV4 Knobs for headunit ($24) <- also best mod imo

Honorable Mention: Mud guards, I ran without them for 2 months or so after buying the truck and would hear occasional dings and dongs on my undercarriage from rocks being kicked up, completely stopped after adding mud flaps.

 

Love: Delete in Reverse by @Puppypunter & @daveeasa

Worst: Windshield tint eyebrow (I have a long torso and sit high in the seat)

Cheapest: A small square of electrical tape over D on the shifter gate. I can see the D reflect in the windows and drove me mad.

Hardest to install: MESO Octo titanium key ring

 

Mudflaps
None
Console tray

 

Best - Hood struts
Worst - none that I can think of
Cheapest - air dam removal

 

Love: Pioneer 6600
Hate: Fox 2.0’s on my ‘05 RC, too stiff, wish I had left it stock
Cheap: Tie: MESO vent rings (maybe the best value mod) and painting my MT surround (tons of time but cheap on spend)

 

Best - Valve caps with green to show I only use 78% nitrogen in my tires.
Worst - None
Cheapest - Small decal on window.

 

Best-winch

Worst-predator steps (on it when I got it-will be replaced with sliders)

Cheapest-probably glove box organizer

 

Love - Everything about my softopper. Also love my pizza cutter tires, 255/85r16 Mastercraft Courser CXT's, changed the whole look of the truck.

Hate - Durobumps rear 3.5" bump stops, bought after I blew out a rear shock wheeling with around 15k on the truck hoping to avoid blowing the 5100's that replaced them. Advertised as working with 0-3"+ of lift (I have no lift) and I constantly smack them since they are 1" taller than stock and my rear leaf springs are junk. We'll see if they are better when I get a new leaf pack. Also read numerous reviews here that said they were "like a cloud" when hitting them, a statement that I wholeheartedly disagree with. Not as brutal as OEM, but still brutal. And they are obscenely expensive for what they are to boot.

Cheapest - RAV4 radio knobs. Still one of my favorite mods that nobody will ever notice.

 

Weird I found the exact opposite about the glare