I bought this truck last weekend:
http://www.wilsonsusedcars.com/used-...3ed576086e.htm
(I'll post actual pics once I get it home, I'm sure this link will go dead before too long)

and after having the dealer fix a bunch of stuff and remove some stickers from it, I will be picking it up tomorrow night. This will be the youngest vehicle I've ever owned at 8 years old, I am retiring my 18 year old Dakota because I recently had a son and his car seat won't fit in the Dakota.

Couple things I want to change on it though that the dealer wouldn't do, and that's remove the fake stuck-on hood scoops and taillight covers that look like they were painted with tremclad, and remove the 4x4 badging off the tailgate, since the truck isn't a 4x4.

Anyone have any tips for pulling the hoodscoops without taking up paint? I've used a heat gun in the past to take off badging, but I know the 3M tape those things are held on with is tough stuff.

 

yeah, the scoops are pretty bad. Saw them off with some fishing line. Kinda like this-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41F4DT9IDs

 

nice truck, you got lucky and someone put the good wheels on it.
the guy who owned it before you must have been a major doosher... i mean come on... 4x4 stickers on a 2wd! WTF??
saw off those nostrils and "4x4" and you got a pretty nice rig

 

"If you can't do this, maybe your stupid or ignorant or somethin"

Love it !

Couldn't have asked for a more perfect video haha.

 

Last owner was a chick believe it or not. It already has decent sounding exhaust on it along with the nicer rims, so future mods will include a spray in bedliner (below the rail) a soft tonneau cover (either a Xtang Trifecta or Fulltilt) and probably a 2/4 drop. It'll either be the drop or put on step bars so my wife can get in and out of the truck easier. I'd rather do the lowering kit myself.

My only concern with pulling off the scoops and the 4x4 badge is the paint colour underneath may be different due to sun fade. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

 

What ever color shade is underneath those scoops CANNOT be as bad as the color difference of the scoops themselves!...lol

I'm sure the scoops weren't installed when the truck was new or else they would actually match. Those look like the last owner(probably being a 2nd owner) put them on.

 

dont worry about fade you wont even notice it ....just give it a good claybar and good wax job.....use a good wax not mediocre....

 

You owe me a new keyboard! I spit Pepsi all over mine when I heard that.

 

You got that right!

 

The 4x4 emblem is on there because that isn't the original tailgate. That's at least an 06 (big ram's head isn't original to 02-03) gate, probably swapped to get the spoiler without doing any install work.