Mods / Upgrades You Regret

[el_barto]

What upgrades or mods have you done to your HD that you regret, or just dont think were really worth it in retrospect?

I replaced the OEM LED foglights with Diode Dynamics elite series fog lights. They are good lights, a bit brighter than OEM but I think the OEM ones were better as cornering lights.


You can see near distance light throw of oem (left) vs DD (right) from the 360 cameras

 

[dieselscout80]

What upgrades or mods have you done to your HD that you regret, or just dont think were really worth it in retrospect?

I replaced the OEM LED foglights with Diode Dynamics elite series fog lights. They are good lights, a bit brighter than OEM but I think the OEM ones were better as cornering lights.

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You can see near distance light throw of oem (left) vs DD (right) from the 360 cameras
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Were your OEM fog lights the LED version?

 

[SolidAxleorBust]

Fox shocks. You spend all that money and are supposed to rebuild them every 6 months to a year?

 

[el_barto]

Were your OEM fog lights the LED version?

Yes OEM fog lights are the LED ones that wrap around the bumper, which is why they work really well as cornering lights

 

[Great White North Eh]

N-FAB aluminum side steps…the main beam is extruded and is fine but the cast end caps corroded quickly and shed the black coating. The fact that the caps are held in with steel screws is icing on the overpriced cake.

 

[maxx442]

N-FAB aluminum side steps…the main beam is extruded and is fine but the cast end caps corroded quickly and shed the black coating. The fact that the caps are held in with steel screws is icing on the overpriced cake.

N-Fab products were awesome until they sold out to Smittybilt. They would do custom powder coat if requested. Their nerf bars were the best around. Smittybilt bought them and immediately went to thinner wall lower grade materials. The last set of bars I bought rusted through the finish in six months.

 

[flan]

Nitto ridge grappler. Rough ride, tough to balance, terrible wet traction, expensive. I drank the kool-aid and regretted it.

 

[AZCummins]

I am on the fence about the soft-rate rear coils (-.5 ride height). I love the way they ride as a daily, but drives me a little crazy that even a 5K trailer now squats quite a bit.

Fox 2.0s are my biggest regret. Should have just gone king 2.5 from the start as the fox are already on their way out and starting to leak.

 

[red]

N-FAB aluminum side steps…the main beam is extruded and is fine but the cast end caps corroded quickly and shed the black coating. The fact that the caps are held in with steel screws is icing on the overpriced cake.

I recently had the same problem with a set of n-fab predator steps. They were 4 1/2 years old. They have a 5 year finish warranty. I contacted n-fab customer service, sent some pictures and a copy of the receipt as per their request. About 4 weeks later a brand new set was delivered to my house. Very good customer service!

 

[red]

Pictures of the old and new

 

[Dewey]

Nitto ridge grappler. Rough ride, tough to balance, terrible wet traction, expensive. I drank the kool-aid and regretted it.

Lol mine lasted 4000 miles rough, noisy and loose feeling. Wish I would not have done that.

 

[Brutal_HO]

Trailer TPMS. Doesn't work with same frequency aftermarket sensors (Ram is digitally coded)

After thinking it over some, the OEM system doesn't show tire temp, and 2nd trailer (boat) could have been an issue requiring me to keep the TireMinder in play anyway, decided it wasn't worth pursuing.​

Hill descent switchbank. Couldn't get it to work with my truck.

Neither broke the bank, so the parts are still installed.

 

[DrTron]

Lol mine lasted 4000 miles rough, noisy and loose feeling.

I must have been lucky to choose the Recon Grapplers, then. Currently at 30k mi and still going strong. Not very loud and good traction, too.

 

[woody284]

For me the one inch front leveling spacer. I can’t tell you really why I didn’t like it but for whatever reason it just always bugged me. Took it off and went with 1.5 inch lowering coils in the rear. Plus airlift bags to compensate.

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

My tailgate “reconfiguration” (hoping to fix that this weekend if the weather holds)

 

[wrvond]

My tailgate “reconfiguration” (hoping to fix that this weekend if the weather holds)

I backed into a bush that was hanging over into a parking space at a hospital. Not a tree, not a tree limb, just a simple little bush. My wife says the tailgate looks like a monkey with a ball peen hammer got after it.