Victory Red 03, color match complete!

[Detroit Muscle]

Got this truck last fall with the lift/wheels/tires already on. Have since ditched the Edge Juice for EFILive from Idaho Rob with an Insight CTS, added an AD150, and just did the rocker panels and had the front and rear color matched.

Waiting to install a 7" black mitre stack, black NNBS 2500HD badges, rear wheel spacers, black cab lights, and need to get my front glass tinted.

Any other suggestions/ideas are welcome!!

Also going to spray the frame/axles black again, but weather needs to warm up.

 

[OregonDMAX]

dang! looks great color matched, even the letters on the tires match. :thumb:

 

[Detroit Muscle]

Haha, you appear to be the only other one surfin the forums tonight! :rofl:

Thanks again.:thumb:

 

[OregonDMAX]

oh haha, well i'm really into color matching i have not see very many bumpers painted like yours and that was the idea i had for so long you just beat me to it and made it look wicked cool.

 

[jraymer]

How do you like those tires?

 

[OregonDMAX]

holy balls im trippin, i didnt even realize i saw this on 2 different forums, fyi dont drink ans surf forums. but are those general grabbers? like general tires because they made in USA!

 

[Detroit Muscle]

So far so good. They did okay in the snow, not the best I've ever ran but adequate. Noise isn't bad at all and they handle good and smooth.

My one complaint is that a while back I started having this noise from my friend end which I thought was a wheel bearing I had just replaced taking a crap again, so I replaced it with a warranty'd one. Noise was still there. Then a buddy just happened to notice that one of my front tires had uneven wear on it. Some of the lugs right down the middle of the tire were ever so slightly lower than the rest. Not a solid strip down the middle, but just certain ones all the way around. We put that tire on the rear and the sound moved back there. I think it was just a weird anomoly in the rubber. The other 3 are fine.

Once said tire was moved to the rear, a 12pk persuaded me to level off the tread... :rofl::driving:

 

[Detroit Muscle]

Haha Oregon, niice. And yes they're General Grabbers.

 

[OregonDMAX]

so i will move my business over to this one haha, yeah i really like that tread pattern too

and yes the stack will make the badges somewhat meaningless because if they don't get a clue by then they never will. :roflmao:

 

[Dkrex01]

I like.

 

[Detroit Muscle]

Some updated pics, 2" rear wheel spacers from RCX, 7" black mitre cut stack, and NNBS 2500HD badges plasti-dipped black.

 

[BIG PHIL]

Looks bad ass man! The only thing I would change is pull the 4x4 stickers off. I pulled them off mine and it really cleans it up.

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[TROJAN366]

Beautiful truck! Everyone in my family has a victory red truck to match our work fleet. Sort of hoping something happens to mine so I can get it repainted this color lol

 

[TLyons90]

Veryyy prettyyy truck! I wanted victory red so bad when I was looking for my next duramax but unfortunitly price, milage, and condition play a part when buying a used truck so I settled for what I got!

 

[Detroit Muscle]

Thanks guys!

Yeah i have thought about pulling off the 4x4 stickers almost every day, but I just cant decide. Also thought about replacing them with black ones instead.

Think the paint would be OK underneath the stickers, since the truck is 10 years old?? What is the best method to remove them if i did decide to, I've done plenty of badges but never stickers off of paint.

 

[BIG PHIL]

Thanks guys!

Yeah i have thought about pulling off the 4x4 stickers almost every day, but I just cant decide. Also thought about replacing them with black ones instead.

Think the paint would be OK underneath the stickers, since the truck is 10 years old?? What is the best method to remove them if i did decide to, I've done plenty of badges but never stickers off of paint.

Mines an 03 and I pulled them off last year. You can see where they were in the right light, but I'm pretty sure it'll buff out. I just stuck mine in the sun and got it nice and warm and peeled them off with my fingernail.

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[TLyons90]

X2^ did it on my 04.5 as well as my 08 and with a simple buff or clay bar the sticker outline is gone!

 

[duramaxzaya]

found my trucks twin haha, good looking truck

 

[■JIM■]

Nice looking truck:thumb:
If you haven't pulled off the 4x4 yet a heat gun is the easy way to take them. Just make sure you dont have the heat gun pointed at the bumper once you start pilling the sticker off.

 

[zach_carver]

found my trucks twin mines 05 tho..