Installed @victory4X4 rear headrest screen delete plates. My wife said I will have to reinstall the screens when we have grandkids.
What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (33 Viewers)
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We’re currently planning a 3 week road trip to Wyoming for June and July and we’re skipping Yellowstone all together because it’s the tourist season. It’s unfortunate but our 5 and 6 year olds aren’t old enough to hike far enough into the back country to avoid the idiocy around the paved roads.
Like them. These are my first victory product... won't be my last.
I have an 08 with the tan interior. It’s not nearly as light as the 13+ beige. I’m having a hard time deciding what color would look best. I have kids and a dog so a bit worried the light Khaki would just get dirty quick. I kinda like the grey color but not sure how that’d look. Thoughts? Pics?
Finished installing the major components of my interior navigation set-up. Don't really need it for the parking lot, but you get the idea. My outlets installed on the Gamiviti plate are wired to my house batteries so they are on all the time. My cell phone attaches to the scosche mounts on the left when not taking selfies of LeToya.
What are all of the different components you have there?
From left to right:
- ARB Linx: Controls my light bars, DRL's, compressor, L and R rear airbag individual pressures, and has a battery monitor for my starter and house batteries. The standard screens I run are the switch panel and speed in kmph.
- Ultra Gauge: I leave it on the fuel page which displays average mpg, real time mpg, fuel remaining and estimated time till empty.
- Scosche mounts on a ram mount for my Galaxy S22 which connects to a SoundLinQ3 for bluetooth connectivity to the stock headunit. I really like this set-up because it lets me keep all of the steering wheel controls.
- Galaxy S21: That's my wife's old phone that I repurposed for use in the rig with just a 25GB sim data only card. It's blue tooth connected to my inreach mini and Galaxy Tab A7 lite below it. Right now I am just running the Garmin Explorer App, and the bluetooth controls for my rock lights on it, but I plan on exploring to see what else I can really run on it. Also makes for a really handy hotspot for the kids while they're in the car.
- InReach Mini2: I keep this connected to my S21 in the car and not mine or my wife's personal phones. I've trained the wife and kids on how to use it and they always know where it is if they need to make an SOS call in case I go trying to save a drone halfway down a cliff in Ireland in an area with no cell phone reception, again...
- Galaxy Tab A7 Lite: I bought this refurbished off of Amazon for $80 for this specific purpose. It has a built in GPS which is handy for running Gaia GPS, park4night, and iOverlander. It pulls data from my S21 and is mounted on a CD din tablet holder which works great. It hasn't fallen while driving offroad yet, but I have knocked it out a couple times trying to reach across it to pick something up out of the passenger seat.
- Midland CB radio.
Let me know if you have anymore questions.
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Any plans to do anything with those slots? I'm tempted to do this, but I kind of want to put something aftermarket there as a screen replacement.
After some use, I hope you'll do a review on them. I've been following ADGU for a long time and these are my number one thing I want on my LX. Just need to save up a bit longer. Did you go with the black ones? Does the black stuff seem like it's super durable?
She’s not wrong
I would use 100% silicone adhesive, which is resistant to heat, moisture, and vibration.
I also have kids. The light Khaki have been great and easy to clean.
Thanks. I ended up calling Equipt, SUPER helpful as always. He looked up my specific color combo of the 08 interior and he actually recommended the charcoal grey tough canvas, as he said it was the closest match to the other non-tan parts of my interior and trim. He said the regular grey cotton was too light and wouldn't match anything. So I just went ahead an ordered the charcoal grey tough canvas. Give the interior a new look. 08 has only heated seats, no cooled seats. He said the tough canvas works just as good with heat....just not with cooled seats. The light Khaki is also only available custom order where as the 2 grey's they have in stock so that also made my mind up for me too.
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Time for an oil change.
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I'm surprised more cabinetry is not made from nomex cored panels rather than plywood. The cored panels are using in airplane and boat interiors.
That's cool stuff! I've deep dived the carbon fiber honeycomb and some aluminum panels, but have not come across the nomex core. From what I understand, the challenge with that stuff for our use case is that we do a lot of depth cuts. We recess hardware within the panel. We need a panel that will take the "bite" of a threaded insert. We need something that will allows us to recess and press fit a trim piece of aluminum. I don't get the impression that's a simple thing with the honeycomb panels. For aircraft use I bet there's a lot of adhesive bonding. For boats, I envision a lot of simple flat panels.
If there's a market for it, we're all about a challenge!
The honeycomb is great for flooring. Saved me a ton of weight when remodeling a boat a few years ago but you are absolutely correct. Outside of direct pressure on the panel surface as in the case of flooring or a wall, the material fails. The cores being hallow in most respects don't allow for screws to bite and once the surface coat is penetrated the material can become brittle. Glue and laminating the joints was the only way I found to make connections or joints. It is phenomenal material in the right application though.
