De-Redneckification of Mr Pate's 03 Duramax

[James Pate]

Thanks! I agree, always wanted to do it just always put it off

 

[a-fuso]

Holy shit it looks like a new truck again! Love the colormatch, perfect mix of black and white, some shiny new red 06 tail lights would finish it off nicely.

 

[Jose.]

Sweet fucking jesus that truck is tittys! Whats with the stickers though?

 

[Bassmaster]

Agreed on the new taillights. Get some 04+ with black borders imo. But truck looks 1000x better than it used to, nice job!

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[James Pate]

Holy shit it looks like a new truck again! Love the colormatch, perfect mix of black and white, some shiny new red 06 tail lights would finish it off nicely.

Agreed, I am going to have a friend paint them candy red and leave the reverse light smoke and see how it comes out, if it still doesn't look good I will go to the oem ones

Sweet fucking jesus that truck is tittys! Whats with the stickers though?

Been thinking about removing the ones on the side

 

[Ericcason92]

God it looks so much better

 

[GeoffSFAs10]

Looks AWESOME dude!!!


What kind of LEDs are you running for your backup lights?

 

[baldd86]

Nice job looks way better

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[James Pate]

Thanks, In my bulb housing I had HIDs but just recently they both went out so I am going to go to cree leds and the bumper lights are from ddm tuning

 

[baldd86]

I'm thinking of doing the cree leds in my truck, I have hids reverse lights and one of the wires got pinched so only one works right now also.

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[James Pate]

I'm not sure what happened whether the ballast or bulb went bad but I don't want to deal with it so I am going to do crees in the cargo light and the reverse lights

 

[Dakota]

Trucks looking good man, very nice turn around

 

[James Pate]

Thanks, took awhile but well worth it!

 

[Dakota]

Makes me really wanna colormatched mine right now lol

 

[James Pate]

Haha I had put mine off for almost 2 years so it was time

 

[Colton]

Amazing what some colormatching will do. Looks :boobs:

 

[James Pate]

Haha right! Thanks!

Posted this in another thread but I want to keep everything together

Sorry for the multiple post but just did this

Before

After

Trying to get my truck far away as possible from redneck lol

 

[James Pate]

Well bought a 08 1500 Silverado tailgate cap and dropped it off along with new rear bumper pads for clear coat so it stays shiny.

Also got these from a friend today. Just need some keys for the front

 

[Bassmaster]

yesssssssssssssss thank you! now, pull the lights behind the grill!

Imo

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[a-fuso]

I think the lights behind the grille look fine on your truck, so you're putting the spoiler cap on and having the black plastic clear coated so it's gloss black and shiny?