🙋‍♂️ What Did You Do To Your Lightning Today?

[Dylanch]

What did you do! I can't un-see this and am trying hard to forget.

This is what a gravel driven truck looks like. Had to remove to install my own heater

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[GarageMahal]

This is what a gravel driven truck looks like. Had to remove to install my own heater

See if you can find the frunk beeper under there somewhere and post a pic, many would be grateful for that information

 

[queuewho]

Tonneau installed

 

[Blochead21]

Tonneau installed

What kind?

 

[queuewho]

What kind?

From Ford accessories:

F-150 2015-2023 REV Hard Folding Tonneau Cover for 5.5' Bed
Part Number: VML3Z84501A42B

It was pretty easy to install. Also FYI, If you do order pickup at your local Ford, the box will fit diagonally on its side in your truck bed with the gate closed, no need for straps or anything.

 

[PA Lightning]

Tonneau installed

They look good. I had the Ford cover like that on on my ICE F150. I really liked it but In the winter the back of the cover occasionally froze to the top of the tailgate in those slushy rain/freezing events.
Pretty easy to get unfroze, but the first time it happened to me, I hit the tail gate open button, it was frozen so did not open. I went on my way, the tailgate unfroze while driving and the tailgate came down. When it happened in the future, I made sure to unfreeze the cover from the tailgate so I could make sure the tailgate was latched.

 

[Blochead21]

From Ford accessories:

F-150 2015-2023 REV Hard Folding Tonneau Cover for 5.5' Bed
Part Number: VML3Z84501A42B

It was pretty easy to install. Also FYI, If you do order pickup at your local Ford, the box will fit diagonally on its side in your truck bed with the gate closed, no need for straps or anything.

Thanks, I asked because it looked like a Bakflip. Waiting for Black Friday in hopes something goes on sale.

 

[queuewho]

Thanks, I asked because it looked like a Bakflip. Waiting for Black Friday in hopes something goes on sale.

Pretty sure it is said widely that REV is just a rebranded Bakflip. I had a coupon code that made it the same price as the BakFlip so I just sprung for the Ford branded REV, since I could pick it up at the dealer.

 

[mklcolvin]

From Ford accessories:

F-150 2015-2023 REV Hard Folding Tonneau Cover for 5.5' Bed
Part Number: VML3Z84501A42B

It was pretty easy to install. Also FYI, If you do order pickup at your local Ford, the box will fit diagonally on its side in your truck bed with the gate closed, no need for straps or anything.

My wife ordered the Roll N Lock E-Series tonneau cover as a birthday present for me from Amazon. Unfortunately, no local dealer (even the Roll N Lock certified ones) would install it, saying that they only install the items bought directly from them. Fair enough. So I look at some of the install videos for the E-Series (ICE F-150), and see that the only electrical connection is to the 12V battery. Well, I know where to find that, so I'm thinking that I could install this myself. While calling around to the local dealers, I find that the E-Series cover is not compatible with the Lightning. Reaching out to the manufacturers themselves, they confirm that the E-Series is not compatible with the Lightning, nor do they have any plans to make it compatible. So no E-Series. Finally I decide to return the unopened box to the Amazon dealer that my wife bought it from. They confirmed that they'd received it, then said that it would take up to 7 days from receipt to process our refund. On the 8th day with no refund received, she reached out to them - now they say that the refund could take from 7-30 working days to get it to us. Beware of folks selling the Roll N Lock products on Amazon. We'll be escalating this ASAP with Amazon itself.

 

[YankeeCP]

I made the volume knob look better

@BestEvMod

Link?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Link?

The vendor (tagged in my post) has a thread here somewhere with a lot of their gear. I got this from their Amazon store.

 

[Coolbreeze704]

Thanks. I was gonna spray the lugs but decided I'll just order black ones instead. Not expecting it to last more than a season or so, but i had to try it.

Prep was easy. Took about five min per tire. I wiped with wet rag, then dry one. Taped off lugs, ford cap and valve stem. Stuffed a bunch of plastic bags to block rotor/caliper. 4 THIN coats, then 2 heavier coats, all in 5 minute incriments. Went thru 2.5 cans for all four tires.

Really looks better then a lot of the expensive aftermarkets I have seen. How is it holding up? What did you do to keep paint off the tires?

Thanks. I will defiantly be doing this on my 2023 when it arrives.

 

[It's Just Me]

Finally got her ceramic'd this week. Last big mod is snow tires.....Three more weeks.

 

[Steve 22 Lightning]

Finally added a little color to my dashboard .

 

[skyak]

Finally added a little color to my dashboard .

that looks great. How did you do it?