Everybody loves an excellent modification, proper? I do know I do, and ever since I put a nitrous oxide package on my 1986 Honda CRX Si, I’ve finished not less than one modification to each automobile and truck that I’ve owned since. I suppose I similar to it when my car is just a little completely different than the others on the market. 

That hasn’t modified since I’ve gotten my Ford F-150 Lightning, and I have been desirous about what I may do to personalize it. The very first thing I needed to see if I may enhance was the entrance gentle bar. It is bizarre as a result of I truly just like the styling of it, and it actually appears nice at evening. Just like the distinctive oval headlights on Rivian automobiles, the Lightning’s distinctive gentle bar lets everybody know from a distance precisely what it’s.  

Slide the bar to the left and proper to check the distinction

Nevertheless, as a lot as I like how the sunshine bar is integrated into the front-end design, I do not just like the pasty-white plastic look of it. I even included it as a dislike in my latest F-150 Lightning high ten likes and dislikes video. 

I do not assume it appears fairly as dangerous on the lighter-colored Lightning, however on the vans with darker paint like mine (which is black), I feel the milky white plastic detracts from the look of the entrance finish. 

The white plastic gentle bar on the F-150 Lightning

So I introduced it to the tint store that has tinted the home windows of just about each automobile I’ve owned for the previous 20 years to see if they might tone down the intense white look a bit, however nonetheless permit gentle to cross by. 

I used to be happy to listen to they’ve a particular tint that’s made for lights. It is black however nonetheless lets many of the gentle by. After seeing how darkish it was on the truck I used to be skeptical that gentle would truly shine by, nevertheless it does.

It is undoubtedly not as vivid because it was with out the tint, however a good quantity of sunshine does come by. t It is vital to notice that the sunshine bar is admittedly for look, it is not designed to gentle up the highway or enhance your evening imaginative and prescient; that is the headlight’s job. Subsequently, decreasing the quantity of sunshine that may cross by would not current a security hazard. 

I simply picked it up from the tint store in the present day so I am nonetheless getting used to it, however to date I am liking the look and can most likely maintain it on – not less than for some time.

So try the photographs and let me know what you assume, I like getting suggestions from the InsideEVs group. I am additionally on the lookout for ideas on what to do subsequent…