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2004 to 2008 F-150 and Mark-LT 4.2L, 4.6L and 5.4L equipped F-150s and Mark-LTs |
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There are a couple of pictures of mine on the PHP website - the ones that show a green display and a dash hood that looks sort of like it's covered in football leather. Back on the f150 forums, I saw a picture of a pod that someone had painted to match the tan part of the dash, and it was a good match, but as I remember, it was sitting on the grey section. I personally feel the metallic grey color is better. As far as I know, the pod comes only in the grey color for late model trucks. It used to be black. - Jack |
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2005 F150 XLT SuperCab 5.4L V8 4x4, 3.73 LS Rear end, Auto Spring 2" Leveling Kit, Gryphon tuner custom 87 Performance tune, AEM Panel Air filter with modified stock intake, 14" Magnaflow muffler |
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Well heck! I keep learning new things! I thought ALL the complimentary dash colors were that silver-grey!
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In the course of 4 years on those trucks, I've only seen 1 picture of a non-grey dash strip and have never seen one personally. It's like a super-rare option.
The only thing you can do in those cases is paint the pod to match. I wish I had a good line on interior paint so I could offer it to the customers, but being that it's such an odd thing I don't know if it's not just easier for the few customers who have that color scheme to find it locally.
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Bill Cohron - The Mad Doctor Power Hungry Performance - The ORIGINAL in Ford performance tuning... Since 1996! (678) 890-1110 www.gopowerhungry.com - Home of the Hydra Chip, Minotaur Tuning Software, and the new Orion Reflash System for Navistar! Bring back Windows™ XP and 7. Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 8 is a pain in my a$$! Windows™ 10 is only slightly less annoying! |
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If you look in my albums, I have a picture of the pod pre-paint. I'll post one after paint tomorrow and include the paint I used to match it.
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2005 F150 XLT SuperCab 5.4L V8 4x4, 3.73 LS Rear end, Auto Spring 2" Leveling Kit, Gryphon tuner custom 87 Performance tune, AEM Panel Air filter with modified stock intake, 14" Magnaflow muffler |
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Awesome! That'll really be helpful.
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Bill Cohron - The Mad Doctor Power Hungry Performance - The ORIGINAL in Ford performance tuning... Since 1996! (678) 890-1110 www.gopowerhungry.com - Home of the Hydra Chip, Minotaur Tuning Software, and the new Orion Reflash System for Navistar! Bring back Windows™ XP and 7. Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 8 is a pain in my a$$! Windows™ 10 is only slightly less annoying! |
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Now, I finally got around to paying attention to the color combo on my dash. So, the grey pod will work.
Now the next question comes to custom tuning. Which tune would be most appropriate for plowing? Thanks for the help on this
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Henry 2011 F150 FX4 5.0, 3.73... |
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That's a nice looking interior, Dfishrmn! I can see why you would be unhappy with the grey pod color. I'm going to guess though, that the "texture" of the pod is close to what is in your dash - right? The older, black pods had a texture that was completely different, so even if you got the color close with paint, it still looked wrong (at least on the newer trucks).
Plowing tune? That's definitely one for the Mad Doctor! But, I'd guess some modification of a towing tune. Would you be running the truck in 4WD Low to perform this task? - Jack |
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A lot better than the grey, in my book! Still, I can see it's a little too "warm". I wonder if Ford sells any matching paint? Seems like they should, doesn't it?
There's also this internet source: http://paintscratch.com/ They seem to be able to match any OEM colors and can even account for differences in assembly plant locations. I doubt you'll have any luck finding a color code for your dash (other than some generic thing for "tan"), but maybe if you contact them they'd have some ideas. Maybe, if you sent them the part of the panel that the headlight switch mounts into, they could mix a color match. (You can see how "obsessive" I get over things like this, can't you)? - Jack |
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