05Single's virgin build thread. 03 tahoe

[Tonyrodz]

Thanks to @NeverSatisfied for the link on tint wrap. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1KRMQZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yHtJEb7EBD59T

I decided to give it a shot. layed some on the already smoked tails. Didn’t lay over the reverse part. Then layed some in the corner area of the turn signals, the bright white was kinda bothering me.

You can see the difference where I did the tails on the wife’s car and also see the swirls on the hoes paint View attachment 246775 View attachment 246776 View attachment 246777 View attachment 246779 View attachment 246778

lights are not on , just reflection from sun

There's sun in Alaska???

 

[Sam Harris]

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Just like anything else this does take some skill. I’m getting better with practice. The lights I’ve down and the esky rack I wrapped are mainly flat. But learning how to work around the edges and the edges are tricky. I’m no pro but I’m pretty impressed with myself
I can see the 03+ silvy tails being a pain but it just takes time and patients. This stuff is pretty forgiving and very workable

Looking great man. No pics of the fronts reinstalled..?

 

[05Single]

There's sun in Alaska???

Yea but it’s really far away lol

Looking great man. No pics of the fronts reinstalled..?

Not atm. Pulled out then pulled back in lol. Working on headlights

 

[05Single]

Visiting a homie at the shop. He just wrapped his truck again. Truck looked way better low but still a clean build. Stopped by to grab some lamin-x film for the new fog lights since amazon is taking its sweet time to send anything.

stacking the hoe with a major load lol. These esky racks actually suck for securing stuff down

love the look of the tails

 

[05Single]

I wanted a led fog light , since the factory z71 fogs are a generic 4” round I had hundreds of options. After narrowing down my choice between jw speaker, morimoto xb, and others I finally picked a pair.
I got oem myotek led fog lights off a 2019ish wrangler rubicon (also come on gladiator) . Compared to any other led fog light these are the brightest with the widest and farthest output. Insane output. but then I had to figure out how to mount them. After racking my brain I ended up using brackets off a base model Jeep Wrangler. The leds came with just mounting ears (had to shave off), the halogens came with brackets. So I measured and cut up some halogen brackets to hug the led housing. Then used plastic weld , followed by 5200 , and wrapped everything with flex seal tape just cause lol

 

[05Single]

Scuff the housing and bracket so whatever you use for adhesive it has something to grab onto. @Rocket Man did you use the gun for the Lord plastic weld ?

 

[05Single]

The white is 5200, they make it in black , but it’s getting covered up.

 

[05Single]

Honestly these would be pretty sweet in a pair of headlights . Still have a cut off and throw light like crazy down the road
Would be very easy to install.

 

[05Single]

So for the depo projectors I wanted to make something that was bolt on for an easy access or anything needs to be changed. I used rubber stripping and universal dust caps as seals. Any openings I just shoved some retrorubber in those spots.

Wanted to use the depo shrouds but that ended up being more of a pain than it’s worth. So I used some Gatling gun shrouds shaved down a little so it clears everything perfectly

 

[05Single]

Btw used oven cleaner to melt the chrome and have a blacked out gatling shroud

left is morimoto 7.0 mini h1s with 35w morimoto 5500k hids . Right is acme mini h1 supers with 35w acme 5000k hids