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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 01:47 PM
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My son and I have been working on blacking out the RAM to his taste. I'm an old school chrome guy but I have to say this black stuff has grown on me. I'm posting a few pix below. I thought about plasti dipping the grill but I'm not sure I'd like it. Am thinking about pulling the inserts and rattle canning those black though. Other than that, we are basically done but can't decide if we want to add a small bull bar (black) on the front. I'm talking about the small one that bolts underneath and loops up and over just in front of the bumper to about the bottom of the grill. My son says it won't look right unless the truck is lifted more. But if that happens, it will be on his dime - I like it how it is.

We have done the following:

Leveled the front and installed black moto metal 951's 17" with Terra Grapplers

Tinted driver and passenger windows to 30% (supposed to be 35% but they were recently tested and found to be too dark to be legal - oh well)

Plasti-dipped all of the badges

Black lockable gas filler door

Smoked license plate cover

Replaced tails with LED's with black trim with matching 3rd brake light

Replaced headlights with stock style black trimmed lights

Swapped out stainless steel nerfs for black powder coated nerfs

Here are some pix after I finally washed the post-snow salt and slime off:

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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 02:29 PM
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That's a sharp looking truck!!
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 03:20 PM
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i think a black bull bar would look good. I had a black one on my leveled 02 ram and it looked good to me
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 04:18 PM
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looks killer, bull bar would look awesome
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 04:51 PM
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I think it would look good with a full brush guard.. instead of the smaller bull bar like you are talking about.. either one would still look good.. Sharp truck man
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 06:25 PM
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Definitely bull bar, I love mine, makes the truck look beefy


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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 06:38 PM
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Might wana look into a light bar too
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 11:40 PM
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Just a thought. What about just a light bar instead? Nice ride.
 
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Old Feb 7, 2013 | 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by nkyhemi
Just a thought. What about just a light bar instead? Nice ride.
Any pix of this?
 
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Old Feb 7, 2013 | 09:51 AM
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a bull ball would be pretty BA, i like the full brush guards too, i think they look pretty sweet
 
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