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What did you do TO your RAM today?

AH64ID said:
While that style cable will allegedly work on the HD trucks it’s not what you want, those connections are buried in the dash. It is what you need for the Jeep, I have one for the wife’s JT.

Get one of these for the Ram.

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The icar will have limited functionality with some of the modules. The VLinker MC+ is the preferred dongle from VGate.
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Is there a link to the correct vlinker on Amazon. Buy once cry once.
 
Rockcrawlindude said:
Changed out the headlamp bulbs today from morimoto 2stroke 3.0 to newer 4.0s.

The 3.0s were great for about 4 years but the cooling fans died in them and they’ve diminished in brightness and color temperature, with the driver side one being noticeably dimmer. They were still good, still much better than my tundra halogen bulbs. They were out of warranty, lasted about 4 years.

I am still happy with them being $200 and lasting 4 years because I have replaced the halogen bulbs in my work tundra every 8-10 months with quality sylvania bulbs for ~$45 each time. I always buy the two pack because the second bulb always fails within a few weeks of the first one going out.

Back to the morimotos, The 4.0s have a thinner chip and better fans and a lifetime warranty. Initially, I can only notice that the cooling fans are much quieter and the color temp seems correct. I thought the 3.0s were great so I expect the 4.0s to be great as well. The morimoto led bulbs greatly improved visibility without other drivers flashing me for glare ( in my wife’s Mazda with factory LEDs we always get flashed, they’re incredible headlights but other drivers don’t like them)

Pic testing all the forward lighting. The fogs are SAE Baja designs and the bumper mounted lights are off-road lights. All the color temperature are very close so I’m happy with that.

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Did you need anything for the canbus going from halogen to led bulbs or are they just plug and play? And They are H11 correct? About ready to ditch the halogen bulbs.
 
rossagge said:
A few days ago, I installed my Gator soft tonneau just before the Thanksgiving day trip. Held up pretty good even in gusty winds. Not bad for $220.

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I’ve had my gator soft cover on since I bought the truck, so 2 years and it’s holding up great. I do use a leather/vinyl cleaner and conditioner every once in a while.
 
Agree. I have one on mine as well. Its a topper when you want a topper and open when you gotta haul big things. Mine has been fantastic for water resistance (after I coated all the seams). I have the tinted rear window and it does a great job making it difficult to see in.
 
Did a little wash and detail. I think I have posted about 303 products before, but their graphene spray is amazing. This time I used the detailer. I will probably re-coat with the full graphene spray before we get snow.

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Units said:
Did you need anything for the canbus going from halogen to led bulbs or are they just plug and play? And They are H11 correct? About ready to ditch the halogen bulbs.
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You’re gonna want anti-flicker pwm modules. I already had them. All the wiring stuff tucked into the headlight housing and the rubber cap goes back on. Yea h11 is what I got both times. Just FYI, the cooling fans on the headlights sound like little drones.
 
Installed Viofo three channel dash cam. Removed center console and tapped into acc and batt+. The power supply will shut down when battery voltage reaches a selected point to prevent killing the batteries. Ran all wires through the headiner for a clean install. This model has the normal front facing cam, a 4X telephoto facing front and a fish eye interior. I mounted the interior cam onto of the rear view mirror. Nice video quality on all three channels.

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Units said:
Makes sense, thanks.
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Theretrofitsource customer service said 12k rpm fans and the wattage of the led and the fan both increase slowly from startup as the warm up to provide consistent brightness. (I guess as LEDs warm up they aren’t as efficient?)

I also verified that the LED won’t ever get as hot as the incandescent bulbs did even if the cooling fan dies.

It made me wonder why they need fans if none of my other LED lighting needs fans and then I realized that all of my Baja designs light housings are basically heat sinks they all have fins built in. The factory headlight housing isn’t built like that.

I edited my install post to note that the fans start out quiet and speed up as I have learned they get louder/faster
 
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Beating the crap out of it off-road and being impressed to having random things happen like Uconnect over heating and shutting off, nearly stalling and smelling like sulfur and having shorts in both rear tails and cargo light. Gotta wash the caked on mud and chase down an electrical gremlin. Still love the truck looks like I’ll have to air it down even more next time.
 

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