- Buying your first truck is quite the experience.
In a lot of ways, it's a lot like a rite of passage
and something that most of us have experienced
at one point or another.
Many of us buy our first trucks
when we were still in high school,
sometimes as young as 15 or 16 years old.
It's a glorious and memorable experience
that many of us remember for the rest of our lives.
However, if you're anything like me,
you can only leave your truck stock for so long.
I don't think I've ever owned a vehicle
more than a few weeks
without inevitably modding it in some way.
I'm Dustin with Custom Offsets
and today, we're gonna be sitting down and going over
our top five picks for mods for your first truck.
Before we jump into that list though,
if you're looking for any of the mods on this list,
you can find pretty much all of them
right on our website,
which is customoffsets.com.
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- [Camera Guy] every single day?
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Okay. Back to the list.
Kicking off our list
at the number five spot
is an exhaust system.
And it's important to note that I said
exhaust
system.
Trust me. I know how easy it is to just
get up under the old pickup truck with a sawzall
and hack the muffler right off.
I mean,
ask Cody Banker.
He did it to a brand new 2020 Silverado.
An exhaust system is a simple,
easy, and effective first mod
that you can do to your truck.
And the best part is,
they're usually pretty inexpensive to boot.
Bolt-on cat-back exhaust systems can be had
starting around $500,
and usually only take a few hours to install.
If custom is more your style,
you can also get a pretty nice mandrel bent exhaust system
made up by your local mufflers shop for a few hundred bucks.
Either way, you really can't go wrong
with a good exhaust system
on your truck.
It'll sound good.
It'll look good.
And it even gives you a couple extra HPs to boot.
For all those reasons, an exhaust system is number five
on our list of the best mod
for your pickup truck.
Coming in at the number four spot
are some of my personal mods for any style truck
and that's lighting.
Specifically here,
we're going to be talking headlights and/or taillights.
There's some absolutely awesome products on the market,
and they're still pretty affordable.
We carry Recon lighting products
and have been absolutely thrilled with them thus far.
Recon offers best quality
led lighting products you can buy on the market.
Led lighting can completely change the look of your truck
and for not a lot of money.
Additionally,
these lighting products offer both form and function
by giving you better light distribution on the headlights
and better visibility on the taillights.
Meaning that you won't get rear ended in a crash.
For all the reasons above,
led lighting is the number four on our list.
Up next, in the number three spot,
is probably one that doesn't get thought about very often
in the gas pickup world,
which is flash tuning.
- [Camera Guy] What are you talking about?
I think about that all the time.
- If you're not familiar with it,
flash tuning is a process of
rewriting your factory engine control unit,
or ECU for short, with a new fuel map.
This allows you to optimize the fuel and air
coming into the engine
in order to achieve maximum horsepower output
from your truck.
Typically, this had only been done to diesel engines
in the past,
but as engine management software has progressed
over the last 10 to 15 years,
guys have also began tuning their gas pickups.
In today's market, you can get an off the shelf tune
for pretty much every major manufacturer's truck
on the market,
making this our number three best mod for your truck.
Coming in at number two on the list
is probably the biggest and heaviest product on this list,
which are bumpers.
While definitely not the cheapest on the list,
the fact still remains that bumpers can really round out
a full build and also provide some function as well.
If you're looking for clearance,
an aftermarket bumper can give you more room
for larger wheels and tires upfront
with less trimming than without it.
Additionally, it can give you more approach angles
should you find yourself,
I don't know,
scaling a rock wall or something?
Companies like Addictive Desert Designs,
Road Armor, Body Armor,
and Rough Country
all make high quality bumpers for most applications.
Most aftermarket bumpers have cutouts for light bars
or cubes,
meaning you can have more light when you need it most.
For having your back when you need it most
on or off the road,
bumpers are number four on our list.
Whoo!
Alright! We made it.
Number five.
The big one.
And honestly, I think you guys already saw this coming.
I mean,
we are Custom Offsets and all.
Coming in in the top spot on this list
is none other than
wheels and tires.
- [Camera Guy] Whoo hoo! Wheels and tires baby!
- For real though,
you guys had to have seen this coming
right?
When it comes down to modifying your first truck,
there's nothing quite like buying a new set of wheels
and tires.
It's an easy and simple way to stand out from the crowd
and it can be done literally at any time
during your ownership of the truck.
Heck, I've seen guys take trucks
right off the dealership lot
and toss a set of wheels and tires on it.
And the results are stunning.
Again, we're talking about Cody Banker here.
Even without any other modification to the truck,
wheels and tires will still completely change
how your truck looks.
And the best part is
you can get your wheels and tires
mounted, balanced, and shipped right to your door,
right from our website, customoffsets.com.
This means all you have to do is jack your truck up and
bolt them up.
Well, there you have it guys.
There's our top five mods for your first truck.
Did we miss one?
Let us know down in the comment section below.
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