🙋‍♂️ What Did You Do To Your Lightning Today?

[gatemaster]

Sell original 2024 F-150 Lightning Flash Front Grill Emblem?

For anyone that has upgraded to the LED emblem I was wondering if you might be interested in selling me your original emblem. I'm looking for the original emblem as I hit a deer that ran out onto the highway at night back in December and it destroyed my grill and plastic emblem. The camera and bracket that holds the camera to the emblem is still good. The body shop that is repairing my 2024 Oxford White F-150 Lightning Flash can't deliver the truck back to me until it's complete and this emblem part is on backorder by ford with no delivery date in sight. I believe the body shop as I've tried to source it from ebay and ever where else and it's just not available. The body shop has ordered a couple other variations hoping it would fit but it looks like the 2024 Lightning (flash?) version is different that what is used on the ICE.

Let me know. I understand some of you might be keeping it to return back to stock but I'm willing to make it worth your while just to get my truck back in my garage.

Send me a DM if interested.

Thank You,
Brian

Huge shout out to the this community. I was able to get something worked out with one of the members and got my Lightning back on the road. Thank You.

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[DIEProphezeiung]

Would you mind telling me what device you used to scan the opening?

I used the Creality CR-Scan Ferret Pro.

 

[aldera]

Just got my Lightning in December but it's been too cold to do anything in Michigan. It hit 76 degrees on Friday and I installed a dash cam, rear window flag decal, mud flaps and the F-150 lettering on the tailgate. Almost went with the Lightning blue color but I like how the black turned out against the Carbonized Gray color.

 

[Gerstein1989]

Fresh wash and wax. Wrinkles finally disappearing in my seats with the warm weather

Where did you get those seat covers with the lightning badging? Looks cool.

 

[groundzero2121]

The seats from an ICE f150 lariat and the emblem I made the design online and found someone on Etsy to make the stitching and ship to me. Then took to an upholstery shop

 

[3rdgenfan]

I almost replaced my XLT with a Platinum....jury is still out, probably not the smartest idea, though. Maybe if the Carvana number was a little higher.

 

[flyct]

Some things I did

Platinum neck pillow. My wife complained about neck pain since the headrest caused her head too far forward. These nock pillows have a close match to the Platinum seats and are very comfortable.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNXC7H3R?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

Struck out the recommendation for the neck pillow since it's too low for me but its perfect for my shorter wife.

Also we have 2 powered coolers we keep in the Fronk and Bed

 

[aldera]

I love my Lightning but I'm not a big fan of the front grill or the blue lettering and accents. I've got a carbonized gray and I really like matte black for accents and lettering.

I've seen some vehicles where the lettering was changed from the Lightning blue to black. Are people just removing the emblems, plasti-dipping them and putting them back on? If so, what's the best way to do it? A heat gun and a piece of tooth floss to get behind the emblem?

Also, anyone change their grille? Can it be removed and replaced with a Raptor grille or something similar?

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

 

[digitaldad]

I've seen some vehicles where the lettering was changed from the Lightning blue to black. Are people just removing the emblems, plasti-dipping them and putting them back on? If so, what's the best way to do it? A heat gun and a piece of tooth floss to get behind the emblem?

Plasti-dip the lightning logos while they are still attached to vehicle. It is a bit tedious to remove the dip edges (from the side of bed) while not pulling up from the actual letters but as you said, toothpicks and possibly a small blade pointed straight up and down from the letters against the truck as to not scratch paint.

This is the process but there are many letters on the lightning compared to this rather easy example:



Here's my letters:

And also my grill, probably temporary until I paint or raptor-line it.

 

[aldera]

Plasti-dip the lightning logos while they are still attached to vehicle. It is a bit tedious to remove the dip edges (from the side of bed) while not pulling up from the actual letters but as you said, toothpicks and possibly a small blade pointed straight up and down from the letters against the truck as to not scratch paint.

Here's my letters:

The lettering looks great. How did you clean up around the letter edges? Thanks for the info.

 

[digitaldad]

Just like I stated, toothpicks to pull the dip from inside the lettering and a blade around some of the outside (stubborn areas).

If you've never used plasti-dip, it peels right off paint...sort of like pulling saran wrap off a bowl edge.

 

[aldera]

Just like I stated, toothpicks to pull the dip from inside the lettering and a blade around some of the outside (stubborn areas).

If you've never used plasti-dip, it peels right off paint...sort of like pulling saran wrap off a bowl edge.

Thanks. I'll give it a try when it warms up here.

 

[CD4TNF]

Some things I did

Platinum neck pillow. My wife complained about neck pain since the headrest pused her head too far forward. These nock pillows have a close match to the Platinum seats and are very comfortable.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNXC7H3R?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

Also we have 2 powered coolers we keep in the Fronk and Bed

Oh interesting. My '22 seats have a ratcheting mechanism right there where the pillow is. That extends the shoulder piece and gives more support. I have mine fully extended for exactly the same reason.

 

[F150ROD]

56k miles, stock tires where going so got here some Falken Wildpeaks HT02 Stock Size.

 

[GDN]

Got an alignment. I don't do rotation as I should. Outside for the front tires was wearing pretty good.

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