Thanks. How do you like it so far? I've heard that the aftermarket grille shells are pretty flimsy compared to the OEM ones. Did it include the filler panels or did you use the ones from the stock grille?
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Thanks. How do you like it so far? I've heard that the aftermarket grille shells are pretty flimsy compared to the OEM ones. Did it include the filler panels or did you use the ones from the stock grille?
That sounds like the grille is a decent quality. I guess the filler panels are called "closeout panels"? They are the black plastic panels behind the grille that direct the air into the radiator. They might be 2013+? All I know is that they are a huge PITA to remove. I tried to take the driver's side off to add a HEMI badge to my grille and I ended up breaking about half of the clips before I gave up.
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The closeout panels are part #9 in the pic.
Nice! I purchased a full T3 set in red and they were not packaged anywhere near as nice as yours. I bought them from a company in Utah(?) and they arrived in a USPS Flat Rate box with the lower arms disassembled and barely any padding. All the arms were taped together and it wore through the powercoat in a few spots. Its not a huge deal but it kinda irritated me that it seemed like they spent as little time as possible to package up $550 worth of control arms.
Were these easy to install? Did you have to remove the bumper cover?
I just took off my rear bumper to install my brand new painted bumper and the new bumper didn’t come with the bumper mounting brackets so I had to take them off the old bumper but the bolts were so rusted that most of them just snapped off, while the remaining bolts won’t come off. Ram use this ******** design on the bolts were instead of using a normal bolt head, hex, Phillips or flat head, they decided to use a flat top bolt, with nothing on it to grab, not even a socket style as its perfectly round. So the nuts on the other end are rusted as well as the threads so the nut got stuck half way down and now the bolt just spins and I can’t get any tool to grab a hold of it to get the nut off. So I gave up and now my truck has no rear bumper. I am going to have to go to my local dealer tomorrow and buy 2 new rear bumper mounting brackets and new bolts/nuts so I can install my new bumper. Sooooo frustrating. If stupid ass Ram just used a normal bolt then I’d have already finished putting the new bumper on.
I do retrofits all the time for customers, I actually just stopped because there’s so many scumbag people in this industry and it’s just horrible. I stopped taking orders 3 weeks ago and I’m done doing builds for other people.
Sorry you got burned. If you need help getting the right parts or figuring out how to do it, feel free to Pm me.
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Were these easy to install? Did you have to remove the bumper cover?
Very easy. 3 bolts and a harness plug per side. Nothing had to be removed to gain access.
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Can you cut them off with an angle grinder or torch them off?
-K
Can you cut them off with an angle grinder or torch them off?
-K
Man, thank you! I’ll shoot you some deets when I get home in a month or so.
Would like to see how well these shine. Please post beam pics!
@kad I was thinking the same thing!