- What's going on guys, it's us.
- Hang on, hang on, hang on, my contact was...
- Oh my God, Jarrod.
I was trying to start a video here.
- I'm sorry, I have an astigmatism.
- So do I.
That's not an excuse.
- Damn.
- What's going on guys?
It's Dustin from Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV on YouTube.
- With Junior.
- Yeah, okay, fine.
You can just forcefully introduce yourself in my-
- You weren't gonna introduce me, so I have to give myself
- I always introduce you.
What are you doing?
- This place is dusty.
- Oh my God.
Yes, I'm here.
- I see what you did there.
- That's @Dusti.Co, I'm @Arkon.OJ.
We're here today to tell you the top trends.
I don't know what we're doing.
(Dustin laughs)
- 2021 is coming to an end.
So, we are gonna bring you guys a video
all on the trends of 2022,
what we think is coming and then we'll review this
at the end of the year
and see if we hit the mark or if we missed it.
- Yeah that.
- Yeah.
So, cheers my friends, to the end of 2021.
- You crack them first or cheers them first?
I don't know. - Both, yes.
- Remember that commercial where they cheers them
and there's the saliva strand?
- No.
- 2022, let's go. - All right, let's go.
All right, so the first trend
we have to talk about today is one
that I think is gonna be super important here in 2022.
I think you're going to see more sidewall.
Now, I wanna, just hear me out.
I don't think that that means
that you're gonna see smaller wheels, right?
I think you're still gonna see 22, 24, 26.
But the thing that I'm starting to notice,
especially on social media, is you're seeing tires
not be super thin and super stretched.
Remember a couple months ago we went through like
the whole threes on sixes thing?
And everybody wanted the super small rubber band.
And it seems like guys now are looking
for just a little bit more sidewall.
- Well, I think part of that too, though,
is people are going with bigger wheels, like 28s, 30s.
And there's only a handful of tire sizes out there.
- Yeah, that's true.
- And they're pretty much all 38s, 40s or 42s.
- Four, 44 boggers, you know?
- Exactly, so your sidewall ratio isn't gonna be smaller
it's going to actually be bigger, even with a giant wheel,
because that's the only option you have
when you have a 16 wide that's 28 plus inches tall.
- Yeah, I think that's gonna be something
you're gonna see a lot in the next coming months,
it's just more sidewall,
and a little bit more square setups, in general.
- Yeah, and I think like, Versatile came out this year
and they came with swinging
with their 36 by 14 and a half or 15 and a half.
Whichever one it is, either way, it's a square set up.
You're not going with the stretching look
that they had three years ago
when everyone was running turtles and NATO's,
that were 35, 12 and a half on the [Inaudible].
- On a 14 wide, yeah.
- They're going bigger with their wheels,
but the tires are there to match too.
- Yeah, I mean, Versatile too did a 39, 15, 50, R 26.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah, so it's like, it's square,
it's big, it's not quite a 40,
so could can fit down a little bit smarter.
It's gonna be banger, I dig it.
- Yeah.
So next up in 2022,
and I think you've already kind of seen it in 2021 is,
RGB is kind of on its way out
and just white LEDs on all of the things-
- Yeah. - Seems to be the new trend.
- Yeah, especially with,
like when we were at SEMA this year, you know,
all of the SEMA builds that you saw
it was all white brock lights
and wheel rings and everything.
A lot of polished suspension as well,
which is absolutely incredible.
I can't imagine polishing your suspension, but yeah,
it was all white, there was no or very little RGB
except for a trucker,
who did the whole Armageddon style, smart car thing.
And that looks super cool.
But, unless it's a steamed build.
- Did you say Armageddon smart car?
- Yeah, did you not see that? - No.
- Dude, so, Chris rolls into SEMA, right?
With his SEMA build,
which is a frigging lifted truck
on 17 by nines and 37s,
big beefy off-road shit, right?
- Yeah. - Digital camera wrap.
And he's got these green lights that run through it.
And then behind it is his boat,
which is matching, same color,
and on the back of the truck is this
off-roadies smart car- - Oh, that was SEMA, yes.
- It was so dope.
It was super cool.
But, outside of like super themed builds,
I don't think you're gonna see a lot of RGB anymore.
- It's funny because I think the trucks scene got wild
for a while.
It was all the star,
firstly, it was RGB halos or a single color,
then it became RGB once they had that.
Then it was the chasing light ones
and all of these different like halo color combos,
or the RGB rock lights and RGBW rock lights.
And I even had RGBW rock lights on my black Bronco.
Then I got the white one
and put the white rock lights on from black label.
And I was gonna put my other rock light set on
because I'm just such a cheap (beep)
that I literally took them out
to put them on my other truck,
and I never did. - Yep.
- Because the white was fine.
I didn't need another color.
And even though I loved running like the blue and the purple
or just random single colors on my black Bronco,
I just, white was fine and it just kind of was the thing.
- I think guys are seeing too,
that white is functional, right?
- You can drive on the road and not get pulled over,
don't take my word for it.
- Yeah, in some states in cases involve your legal,
and all that good stuff, you know how it goes.
But, even like hooking trailers up at night
or there's some guys with deer stands that hunt a lot
that, of course they hunt a lot,
they have (beep) deer stands.
I mean (beep)
Anyway, there's some guys that have used them for that,
when you're on the field and stuff.
So, they're actually super functional as well,
which is awesome.
Another trend I think you're gonna see
in 2022, is the rise of smaller lift kits.
- You think so?
- So, hear me out, right?
- Are you saying that because your truck is on forging lines
and forges a lift?
- No, but what I'm seeing is a lot of guys
that were on big lifts come back down,
or guys that are looking to build their truck are looking
to stay four and a half six.
They're not looking at 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 inch lift kits.
And here's why, right?
You can buy a standard lift kit.
Now, I'll be it, say what you want.
But, I like rough country, I think they do good stuff.
You can buy a standard six inch lift kit
for, a rough country lift kit,
for an F-150 for 1200 bucks, 1500 bucks,
somewhere like that.
You can't buy 10 to 12 inches of lift for that.
Trimming is free, right?
Trimming doesn't cost you anything.
So, I think you're gonna see
with the price increases,
with the increasing price of steel, you know,
with the shipping delays and all that stuff,
you're gonna see guys go to a little bit smaller lift kit
and either go to smaller wheels or narrower wheels,
or just cut the hell out of their trucks to make it fit.
- It's funny you say that,
because Koda is currently attempting
to solid axle swap and four link his second gen
and just for the metal alone for the four link and cradle,
he spent $1,500.
- Yeah, that's a whole lift kit
with decent shocks just in steel.
- Yeah. - Yeah,
I think you're gonna see that a lot this year.
You're gonna see guys go a little bit smaller,
a little bit wider.
There's a guy in one of the LBZ pages I'm on,
that's running 24 14s and three 75s
on a four inch lift kit,
and he's like, I'm just gonna cut it.
I don't want to go any bigger.
- So, the next trend I think we're gonna see
a lot of in 2022 is small forged brands taking off.
You've seen it a lot with KG1, Liberty Forged.
You've seen Hostile Forged.
And not only are small brands taking off,
Hostile's a big castro company.
- Yeah. - They've had forged wheels
for a while, but offering in stock forged wheels,
is gonna be huge.
People don't want to wait. - Correct.
- Especially in today's times where you're waiting,
who knows how long for wheels to come in, get cut,
get shipped out to you, when you have in stock ones,
and the most popular bolt patterns
that you can just pick up and buy.
That's gonna be the big thing going into the new year.
- Yeah, and I think,
especially, that's gonna be especially true
in sizes 24, like 20, 22, 24, right?
- It's the most common.
- Yeah, I don't know if you're gonna see it
in like you're 26s, 28s, 30s, right?
That's still gonna be market dominated mostly
by your force and your specialty and that stuff.
But, I think for your average guy
that's looking for a 22 by 12, 22 by 14, 24 by 14,
that you can go to HD Pro, you can go to Hostile,
you can go to KG1 or Liberty Forge
or any of those guys that have them in stock
and get them at the same ship time
as you would a cast wheel.
- Not only them,
but American Force is a big one
and they still have in stock forged wheels,
depending on sizes of bull patterns too.
So, it's getting to be more common
than the in stock is what people obviously want
because you can get them sooner.
And that just makes it that much easier
to go for those companies versus waiting 24 plus weeks.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- So, the next thing which we're already seeing
at the end of 2021,
beautiful December first rolls around in Carolina bans,
the squatty boys.
Let's go baby.
- Yeah, okay, listen, listen,
so, yes-
- So, in 2022, you're not gonna see
the squatty boys that you did in 2021.
- [Dustin] I disagree.
- [Jarrod] You think so?
- [Dustin] You're going to see
guys revert back to air shocks.
They're already doing it.
There are guys in the Carolinas right now
that are scooping up air and hydraulic shocks immediately.
Because they can get to the show and tune it up
and make it look all squatted like they want to,
and then when they get back on the road, they can air it up.
- [Jarrod] Isn't that ironical?
Because I look at all that extra money
and work they're doing just to squat it,
park it at a show, to then get back on the road
and legally have to level it out to drive home.
- Yeah, it's unreal.
But, that's the degree that these guys are going to,
and they're probably going to continue to do so.
- I hope I see more of sore shocks, I know a lot-
- [Dustin] Oh, they do good stuff, yeah.
- [Jarrod] They do so cool.
- [Dustin] He doesn't have a truck anymore.
- [Jarrod] He doesn't? - [Dustin] No, he sold that.
That's gone.
He's got like a reverse leveled-
[Inaudible]
- [Dustin] No, I think it's gone.
- [Jarrod] Oh.
- [Dustin] Maybe, I guess I'm not sure.
Let us know in the comments, I don't know that.
- That thing was sick.
The sore shocks are just dope,
and they look sick
and I don't know, there's something about them,
but I don't want to know the price tag on them
'cause they are more than my Bronco.
- Another thing, not so much, I guess a trend,
but something I think that like aftermarket company,
is gonna have to keep in mind this year.
Oh my God, my contact is freaking.
Remember how I harassed you?
Oh my God, I got that.
- Oh, Jarrod gave me astigmatism or something.
(beep)
- But anyway, one thing that's gonna grow
increasingly challenging, I think is,
aftermarket headlight companies battling the fact
that OEM headlights are just getting so damn good.
- The new 2021s, I think it is what Kirk has.
- Yeah.
- [Jarrod] The new Tremor is what, 2020, 2021?
- [Dustin] 21.
- [Jarrod] It's just 21 out.
- [Dustin] No, 2020 plus.
Yeah, 'cause there were '17 and '19, '20 plus.
- [Jarrod] So the new 2020 and up Super Duties,
the headlights on them already look aftermarket.
- [Dustin] They're so good.
They're so good.
- But, then you have companies like Morimoto,
they're coming in with headlights
that do even more than the OEM ones.
You think the '17 and '19 headlights are fairly modern.
They're two years old, they have a lot done to them,
especially in the higher trim levels,
then you see the Morimotos on the giveaway truck
that we had and the headlights you turn on, do, do, do, do.
- [Dustin] Yeah, and they do the little chase thing
and stuff, yeah.
- Yes, like the little things like that,
that just put it over the top.
At the same time though,
aftermarket companies would have to keep pushing
for better quality out of those as well.
Better performance, all of that stuff,
because you can get projectors
at pretty much any brand of truck nowadays.
- I mean, look at the power wagon
when we built that with Anthem.
That thing had four projectors
in the headlights when we built it.
And so the Morimoto headlights are fantastic.
And I love those guys, they're awesome.
They make fantastic products,
but like companies like them are really gonna have to
double down when it comes to,
especially the higher trim levels, right?
Your base package is always gonna have
halogen reflectors, but you don't see so many guys
buying those, they're buying patties,
they're buying limiteds,
they're buying Denalis.
- At the same time Morimoto, I feel like every year
it's like, how do they think of that?
How did they do that? - I don't have any idea.
- I can't wait to see what they do
with these brand new trucks,
because I feel like they already have ideas,
they're already in the works, they're already testing.
It's probably already actually done.
And they're just like getting it into production now,
which obviously it's a whole separate story,
in today's day and age.
- No, we're not gonna talk about that.
- But, I think they're gonna still surprise us.
Even though we see these brand new trucks
with brand new headlights that are incredible
and we are like, these are amazing,
they're still gonna be like,
we got a trick up our sleeve,
and we be like, how'd you think of that?
- We only got a couple left here today/this evening
since Jarrod wants to harass me, stop it, whatever.
It's only 8:30.
- Yeah, it's time to go.
Is it actually 8:30?
- No, it's 7:30, but it's still pretty late.
- I got a hot date tonight.
- No you don't, shut up.
(beep)
I think you're gonna see in terms of performance parts,
you're going to see more and more companies
and more and more aftermarket companies,
specifically jumping on board with that EPA compliant,
emissions compliant performance stuff.
Banks Power is one that, you know, instantly comes to mind.
Everything that they do comes with a carb EO number
because they're in California, super dope plant,
by the way, you ever get out there.
It's a super awesome place to be.
- Remember, back in the day, in the truck world,
when there was a diesel performance company
that we can't name, sued everybody for the color blue?
And that was all we had to worry about.
- Yeah, they filed a patent on that color blue.
- Yes, and now we're sitting here,
can we actually do anything to our trucks?
We can't delete them, can we put an intake on them?
Could we put an exhaust on them?
Could we put a muffler on them ?
An exhaust tip at least?
- [Dustin] Yeah.
- [Jarrod] It's no to all of it because of the EPA.
But, here we are,
we got fly with it, we got to work with it,
we gotta figure out ways around this
and still make cool, fast trucks.
- And it's not even big shops anymore.
I heard the other day,
there was a shop 30 minutes from me
that just got shafted at $50,000 fine
'cause they didn't auto tune and delete, yeah.
- Oh.
- Yeah, local mom and pop shops.
EPA is like, give me money (beep).
- I wonder Glen still sees,
like, Glen, what have you done to that truck?
Nothing.
- Stop!
- It's like, Glen, it's tuning late.
No, it's not.
- No, we don't talk about that.
- Shame on you. [Inaudible]
- Their truck is pretty cool
and the small K burnouts.
- [Dustin] Well, listen-
- [Jarrod] I said okay.
- [Dustin] It would do much better if I did his burnouts.
I'm definitely a better burnout-
- [Jarrod] Because it's on driver mode, is that it?
- Yeah, I'm definitely a better burnout doer
than Glen is.
Yeah, especially if it wasn't my truck.
(Dustin screams)
Has he found out the eight one?
We did that.
On the plus side, there's a deaf shortage.
So that's cool. - Really?
- Yeah, there's a national deaf shortage right now.
So, you can't delete the deaf system,
- Yep, but you can't get it. - But you can't get it.
- Yeah, which is gonna really (beep) transportation
with all these semis that haven't been done.
- The good news is electric vehicles are on the rise
and that might just have to be the future of 2022.
- [Dustin] That is very true, honestly.
And that's kind of the last point
I wanted to bring up here today is just,
there's four or five EV trucks coming this year.
- The problem is they're still just coming though.
We don't have one here.
- I saw the Rivian.
- Really?
- I saw a Rivian when we were at SEMA,
it was out driving around.
It was out in traffic,
'cause it drove past and I was like,
that's not a Tesla or a Hummer.
I was like, that's a Rivian.
- That's sick. - Yes, so they're real,
they exist somewhere.
- It's real, I'm a real boy.
- It's like seeing a unicorn,
Bro I told you it's real, ask Sasquatch.
I really saw him, I swear.
- Or if you're from Rhinelander.
- Oh the HODAG. - Yes.
- The HODAG, none of these guys are gonna know (beep) HODAG.
- I hope there's one person in the comments
that goes, right, let's go! - Yes, please.
We do this for you.
- Yes. (beep)
- But yeah, I mean they're real and they're coming.
You have the Rivian and you have the H1
or the Hummer, I guess it's the Hummer EV.
Silverado Sierra are coming up with an EV truck.
- [Jarrod] I think they are launching on January 1st-
- [Dustin] Early January, yeah.
- Or first week of January.
The cyber truck is coming some year.
Whenever Elon Musk decides he's gonna stop tweeting
all the time and actually make it. (beep)
- I mean, there's that, like you said,
there's the F-150 lightening, which is coming.
I mean, all of that stuff is gonna be here.
- Even at family Thanksgiving,
that was all they talked about all the time,
was the Ford Lightning coming back
and how they had one pre-ordered.
- But I think that's really gonna shake up the market.
Because can you put 24 fourteens on an electric truck?
- Can you lift an electric truck?
- What's the lift look like?
What does that lower center of gravity do
when you pick it up?
How rocky do they get?
There's a lot of unknown.
- What is the battery miles gonna turn to
when you put 37s on?
- Correct, there's a lot of unknowns
when it comes to EVs
and it's gonna be really interesting,
but I think it's gonna be something
that truly you're going to see start pop-up more.
And on that note, that's what we have for 2022 truck trends.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Thank you, Jarrod, for joining us.
- Absolutely.
- We appreciate it.
- I'm always here to drink beer and talk trucks.
- Yeah, America.
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We hope you guys have a fantastic new year
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- In the new year.
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