What Have You Done to Your 4th Gen This Week?

[Expedition Dave]

Need to check that hitch tongue weight, Lou...

 

[Brian Kile]

Hey Brian, I just crawled under the front real fast to look at the fog light housings before buying a set of these. From the looks of it, did you have to remove the entire fog light housing to replace the LED's? That's really the only way I can see doing this? I mean if that's the case, holy crap, way to over complicate stuff.

Actually, the more I think about this, I have a Plati which means the fogs are already LED. Based on what I see under this thing, are the LED fogs sealed which means that damn things aren't replaceable? i.e. if the fogs stop working we can charge you several hundred bucks to replace the whole housing rather than just a bulb? Please tell me i'm crazy.

I'm not sure on the Platinum, on my XLT FX4, I did have to remove the screws and peal back the fender liner to get in there, but then it's just kind of a blind twist to release the bulb housing, then unplug the bulb, you don't have to remove the whole light assembly on mine.

 

[DWs-TTEB]

Installed 4 new drilled and slotted rotors with new semi-metallic pads. Rotated the tires and did an oil change with filter all while trickle charging (13.2 V now). Gave her a bath today. I so miss the 4 car garage I had in my old house in CT.






^Front^



Rear

 

[2019 Plat Exp]

Installed 4 new drilled and slotted rotors with new semi-metallic pads. Rotated the tires and did an oil change with filter all while trickle charging (13.2 V now). Gave her a bath today. I so miss the 4 car garage I had in my old house in CT.

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Nice did you notice any improvement in braking distances?

 

[DWs-TTEB]

Still braking them in. to soon to report.

 

[5280tunage]

Installed 4 new drilled and slotted rotors with new semi-metallic pads. Rotated the tires and did an oil change with filter all while trickle charging (13.2 V now). Gave her a bath today. I so miss the 4 car garage I had in my old house in CT.

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Nice, are those power stop?

 

[DWs-TTEB]

Nice, are those power stop?

Nope. Got them here: https://brakeperformance.com/brake-rotors/premium-cross-drilled-&-slotted-brake-kit.php

@Fozzy thanks for posting the link to them^!

Cost $372.00 USD (x4 rotors/x4 sets of pads). There running a better sale of 40% off now (I got 30%).

 

[DWs-TTEB]

I had a pair of PowerStop rotors on my F150 didn't like them. I got better stopping power from stock style rotors.

 

[AKentPhoto]

Hooked up a trailer for the first time... Towed one of our electric camera carts 2.5hrs each way. Mileage definitely took a hit...

It's definitely approaching the limit on needing a wdHitch with all the other stuff we have to bring with us. Hopefully now that GM is also irs the aftermarket will get more creative on helper springs other than the Sumos. Though because they offer factory that air might squash those hopes. Anyway, felt good back there and I need to spend more time with the backup feature. I can see how it could be helpful, I'm just more confident doing it myself. Do you guys use it or skip it?

 

[DWs-TTEB]

Nice did you notice any improvement in braking distances?

One thing I noted while removing the factory pads/rotors, is that the rear pads were 3 times as worn as the front pads (35K miles on them). Also, learning the fun way that you need to put the Expy into "Brake Maintenance Mode" prior to resetting the rear calibers. Broke the pads in, but waiting for after another wk of driving before I attempt 911 braking. So far stops a little better w/o any noise.

^Confirmed to work on 4th Gen Expys^
*The button he is referring to is the "Parking Brake Release" button (Expys on left side under headlight control panel).