Hostile1's 2018 Graphite GXL

[Gurilla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gurilla]

Yeah color looks sick!

Yeah the face lift model we have has a nice front end and the rear lights set it off also ! But I like the bull bar makes it look like a real 4wd!

[Hostile1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hostile1]

Agreed.
have you decided if you are colour coding yours or leaving black?
I can’t wait to see it.

[Gurilla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gurilla]

Yeah we will be color coding.. missus won’t have it back now after seeing a few with black makes it look a little cheap and mine spec.. with color code looks nice and I won’t regret it either

[Hostile1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hostile1]

Dead right mate. The darker colours you can away with having black, but not white.

I had a look over your thread about the wiring side of things. It doesn’t seem too hard. I just want to get in right. Cheers for the help.

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I had the front struts adjusted today to compensate for the bullbar install. Here are some photos......because we all love photos.

https://i.postimg.cc/1VRVM2Bj/IMG-1417.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/XGkyf4f5/IMG-1420.

[Gurilla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gurilla]

Looks huge !! Looks like a real 4wd now aha !

are those 265/70 or 285?

[Hostile1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hostile1]

Still 265/70R17 mate

['Dan' Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 'Dan']

I see stock ones around town a bit and I forget how low they look at standard height.

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I can’t do stock anything.

[Leethal Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Leethal]

Looks good, the wheel/tyre combination looks aggressive if that is that is the correct term.
What are the suspension measurements now? It looks in the pictures like the front is higher relative to the rear.
My lift settled at 805 mm front and 860 mm rear with the third row seats out.

Lee

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I can’t do stock anything.

Does anyone?

I just finished swapping the 12v plug oni the fridge cord for anderson because it wiggled loose a few times when I used - annoying...

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Thanks Lee that was the look I was going for. I on purpose did not include the new measurements as some people might get excited.
I purchased some uprated Kings springs after the bull bar install however they were not compatible. The Fox struts I have are height adjustable so my suspension place adjusted them by 10mm then reinstalled to find it added 25mm in height. I don't have the time nor the money to keep paying them to adjust them multiple times especially after now having a set of brand new springs that I can't use. The place I bought them from won't take them back either.
Long story short the car is sitting 830mm front and rear from bottom of rim to bottom of guard. Drives great and they had no dramas doing a wheel alignment. Although he did say it was very close to not working without installing better UCA's. Ill throw some Kaon bash plates on and see what happends. Worst case ill bump the UCA's up the list of priorities.

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Does anyone?

Yep, but none of them are on here hahaha


I just finished swapping the 12v plug oni the fridge cord for anderson because it wiggled loose a few times when I used - annoying...

Im starting to get right into 12v stuff. I have been looking at these:

https://www.baxters.com.au/switch-pa...am-inputs.html

They look alright and will eliminate the need for multiple relays all over the place.

['Dan' Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 'Dan']

Mmmm, Am I misunderstanding what that does? Looks like you're supposed to connect accessories to it directly?

Not sure I'd want to be pulling multiple 25 amp wires into the cabin. More heat, and longer cable run means greater voltage drop to whatever accessory you're driving.

The whole point of a relay setup is so you can use a switch with thin wire running low voltage, low current/heat sp you keep the actual source wire for that accessory short to minimise voltage drop. (Battery to Relay to Accessory)

Less high current wiring around the place the better.

I did just have a look at a random Stedi Light Bar and it only said 9amps so maybe it's not a concern for something like that?

Panel looks cool, shame it can't have the lighting colour changed.

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It does not give you much info there however you don’t run the accessories to the switch. The switch has one wire that goes to a power module under the bonnet that runs all of the accessories without relays.
have a look at this Video. Different brand but same product.

https://youtu.be/uorVnGsO7-Q