What did you do to your 5th Gen?

[jonnoriega]

Just had my '16 Platinum touched up.

Front grill replasti-dipped and emblems as well.

Thanks to Paul and Garrett over at Top Coverage LTD in Elgin, IL for another job well done!

(Going to get her hand washed now)

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Just had my '16 Platinum truly murdered-out. Front grill complete replasti-dipped and emblems as well. Thanks to Paul and Garrett over at Top Coverage LTD in Elgin, IL for another job well done!

(Going to get her hand washed now)

TopCoat Products Velgen Wheels Livernois Motorsports & Engineering Ford Motor Company Yokohama Midwest Tint & Vinyl Specialists

 

[ECF]

You should paint the exhaust trim pieces black as well.

 

[jonnoriega]

You should paint the exhaust trim pieces black as well.

That's next

 

[Summers22]

Made my own device for extracting small pebbles/grains of sand from the perforated portions of my Limiteds seats (my kids all play sports - baseball, softball, football, volleyball plus we go to the lake quit a bit to boat and swim at the beaches there). I took a size #6 non-barbed fish hook and straightened is out a little and push the pebble out from the underside while using my shop-vac to finish the job. So I go "in" one hole over from where the pebble is, poke up with the hook and vac it out. Works like a charm!!

 

[jonnoriega]

Made my own device for extracting small pebbles/grains of sand from the perforated portions of my Limiteds seats (my kids all play sports - baseball, softball, football, volleyball plus we go to the lake quit a bit to boat and swim at the beaches there). I took a size #6 non-barbed fish hook and straightened is out a little and push the pebble out from the underside while using my shop-vac to finish the job. So I go "in" one hole over from where the pebble is, poke up with the hook and vac it out. Works like a charm!!

Photo?

 

[Summers22]

Its just a #6 bronze fish hook but I can take a picture of it if you want.

 

[jonnoriega]

Its just a #6 bronze fish hook but I can take a picture of it if you want.

No need. I'll try it too

 

[Tony91Sport]

Did a few things over the past month.

First these:

And this:

Then a week later this:

Also did a thermostat, 3bar MAP and NGK plugs last week. Forgot to take a picture though.

 

[peterk9]

Did a few things over the past month.

First these:

And this:

Then a week later this:

Also did a thermostat, 3bar MAP and NGK plugs last week. Forgot to take a picture though.

Don't see any pics. Just a bunch of these

 

[supr squirrel]

Don't see any pics. Just a bunch of these

Interesting. Must be where they're hosted at. They were showing up fine last night. He should get an Elite Explorers membership.

 

[jonnoriega]

My Platinum got a mention in velgenwheels.com. This was right after I installed the wheels.

http://velgenwheels.com/ford-explorer-velgen-wheels-vmb6-satin-black/

 

[Tony91Sport]

Interesting. Must be where they're hosted at. They were showing up fine last night. He should get an Elite Explorers membership.

Just tried to get one. Failed 3 times.

 

[peterk9]

Just tried to get one. Failed 3 times.

I'm guessing you are referring to the Elite membership? If so you can use the "Contact Us" tab below or send a PM to Rick, the site Admin. I'd be more than happy to contact him if you wish. What kind of message do you get when attempting to join?

Peter

 

[Tony91Sport]

I'm guessing you are referring to the Elite membership? If so you can use the "Contact Us" tab below or send a PM to Rick, the site Admin. I'd be more than happy to contact him if you wish. What kind of message do you get when attempting to join?

Peter

Got it this time. Wonder what the hiccup was. It was an error on PayPal's side.

 

[Tony91Sport]

My Platinum got a mention in velgenwheels.com. This was right after I installed the wheels.

http://velgenwheels.com/ford-explorer-velgen-wheels-vmb6-satin-black/

What hood protector are you using? Do you like it?

 

[Rainlord]

- Took off grille (oh my god what a pain to get those headlight-side bolts off!)
- Installed a lit 9" LED Ford emblem for grille (it's a breaklight logo found on Ebay but I'll just hook up the low-light to the headlights or such)
- Installed the Feniex 600 WL (work light) bar (sides are 120 degrees, rest is 45, all white, no blinking or colors as I'm not a cop). To fit I had to cut about an inch on each side of the grille and behind on the car (all plastic). This does mean you lose 2 clips. One of mine was already gone anyway. Took 2 min with a Dremel.
- Re-plastidipped logo bar-section of grille as it was ugly first time around.

I haven't hooked up the lights yet as that's a longer process than I had time for last night. Here's a few pics of process and result.

Hole drilled for lit emblem as wire is right in the middle (for future reference, if you do this, drill the hole about 1 hole-size down from where I did it as I had to drill again, the wire is quite thick right at the logo so even "centered" you need a bit more space vertically)

Backside, it's all just (expensive) plastic...

Some careful placement later:

Unfortunately I didn't take many pics of installing the light bar or the brackets (after Dremel-ing off 1" on both sides of the grille), but essentially I put on the Feniex brackets on the light bar, put 3M tape on top of them, aligned it and stuck it on the bottom of the grille so that it "glued" itself in place, then removed the light from the brackets and screwed in 2 screws in the bracket holes into the plastic. All in all it's firmly in place. On the 2012 Explorer this was pretty much the only place it could go (could also go in bottom air intake hole but then the lights would be really low). I should add that the bar is really thin and not much air is being blocked as it has air space on both top and bottom even with it "blocking" the bottom hole.

Installed grille again (ouch, I really need to get a 10mm offset wrench for those bolts at the headlights). All wires packed up for now as I'll hook everything to the light controller module in ****pit. The lightbar sticks out slightly on the sides which was pretty much a non-option or the brackets would've been too far back and have no "grip" on the grille (or end up getting screwed into the very back of the plastic which isn't very stable). I suppose I could've re-drilled the bracket screw holes but to be honest it doesn't bother me, and that could be fixed later should I one day feel like it does matter . Another option would've been a shorter light bar, the 400 for example, then there's no plastic-alteration required.

 

[Jon M]

- Took off grille (oh my god what a pain to get those headlight-side bolts off!)
- Installed a lit 9" LED Ford emblem for grille (it's a breaklight logo found on Ebay but I'll just hook up the low-light to the headlights or such)

Being a brakelight logo, does it light up red? If so, have you checked state law to make sure it's legal?

 

[Rainlord]

Being a brakelight logo, does it light up red? If so, have you checked state law to make sure it's legal?

Yep it does. No I haven't yet as my state law is Switzerland, so I'll figure it out after I talk to someone official that knows (digging through law book is a nightmare). I'm anyway planning on relaying it to a button in the ****pit to be able to permanently keep it off or hook it to the parking lights so that it's only on before the car starts. If nothing else, it was cheaper than a fully black emblem on Ebay

 

[jonnoriega]

What hood protector are you using? Do you like it?

OEM. Had it on for a year and it's still holding up well.

 

[supr squirrel]

Got it this time. Wonder what the hiccup was. It was an error on PayPal's side.

Sweet, glad you got it going. You should edit the post above where your pictures disappeared so that others can see the work you did.