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[Jackpine]

Originally Posted by Dfishrmn

Just a thought on this. The color match is good unless you have the tan interior, then if you want it to match you'll have to do some seaching to find a match that does not cost $50 a can. I found some at Gladwin Paints that is real close but not exact. It would be good to offer that color as an option if possible. Other than that small detail the Gryphon is a great unit that would not give up for anything.

Interesting! My truck has what I would call a "tan" interior (it's a King Ranch and much of the plastic in the dash is tan), but the part that the Gryphon snaps onto is a titanium grey, and the pod matches that area nearly perfectly.

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

[Dfishrmn]

Originally Posted by JackandJanet

Interesting! My truck has what I would call a "tan" interior (it's a King Ranch and much of the plastic in the dash is tan), but the part that the Gryphon snaps onto is a titanium grey, and the pod matches that area nearly perfectly.

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

The portion in my truck where the pod sits is a dark brown mix, the gray pod really stood out so I found that paint. Looks alot better.

[Jackpine]

Well heck! I keep learning new things! I thought ALL the complimentary dash colors were that silver-grey!

- Jack

[Power Hungry]

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.

[Dfishrmn]

Originally Posted by JackandJanet

Well heck! I keep learning new things! I thought ALL the complimentary dash colors were that silver-grey!

- Jack

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.

[Power Hungry]

Awesome! That'll really be helpful.

[svt2205]

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

[Jackpine]

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

[Dfishrmn]

Originally Posted by JackandJanet

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 truck)

- Jack

Yeah, the texture is real close. I just added a picture of the pod with the new paint to my albums. It isn't exact but is a lot closer than the grey. I bought it at Gladwin Paints but may be available at other outlets. I think it ran about $14. It's made by SEM. Easy to apply, just wipe the pod with paint thinner, let dry one minute, and paint. No primer.

[Jackpine]

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