As you can see the -12et wheels push the tires right to the edge of the Bushwacker flares. Glad I found this site to help me come up with this stance: https://www.wheel-size.com/calc/ ... a little bit of luck was also involved to be honest!
Also Wildtrack bars are installed ... I find they look...
I’m hoping to update my build soon. Icon suspension kit has finally shipped. It hit a little unexpected delay at the border but was resolved, should be receiving this week hopefully.
Wildtrack roof bars are in from Thailand, so will install my Rhino-Rack platform on the roof at the same time I...
Had to vent cause I’m back to running stock tires since April 1st because warm weather (and local bylaws) prevent me from running my studded winter tires. Now truck looks really stupid with big flares and skinny tires!
BTW 295/70R17 don’t fit with just a level kit, there’s a slight rub at full...
Hey @Icon! You guys are starting to suck! You should’ve been upfront when you accepted orders that you weren’t « weeks away » from shipping your kits but rather « months ». Was it all a ploy to lock customers in ... and away from other companies?
I was also initially looking at a hard roll-up but since I planned on having crossbars over the bed it became obvious the retractable kind was the way to go. I would also recommend going this route if, like me your truck is a “lifestyle” vehicle and not a work truck ... just wished I had waited...
Ok so it seems I’ve been given the wrong info and in turn gave all you guys wrong info also. The North American Ranger does NOT come equipped with mounting holes for roof bars as “standard equipment”. The only “holes” that are there are for the 4 screws that hold the drip moldings in place (2...
There’s a bunch of them on eBay sold mostly by Thailand tuning shops so buy at your own risk! I have no idea which one my dealer went with. Here are a few links of the screw in ones...
To answer my own question (lol): so far I’m leaning a lot more towards the Wildtrak bars because, although the Backbone looks much better (and cooler, way cooler!), the bars seem to be more versatile. As in I can put whatever I want on the roof bars (another type of tray, crossbars, cargo box...
Update from Rhino-Rack:
For those interested in mounting a platform to the roof of your Rangers, Rhino-Rack has just confirmed to me by email that their Backbone mounting system (shown in post above) will be available in the next 2 weeks or so. Guess I’ll have a decision to make soon: Wildtrak...
Ok so took a long time but I have an answer: there are pre drilled holes on the roof just like the ROTW Ranger so I ordered the Wildtrack roof rails on Ebay (dealer did actually) to mount my Rhino-Rack Pioneer tray. That’ll be the temporary set-up until Rhino-Rack makes their Backbone mounting...
Still waiting for a reply. Last email from Icon in March said they were shipping end of March or early April. Really starting to suck cause noise from studded tires on clean black top is getting annoying and want to get tire swap with suspension work.
That’s why I went with fender flares. I’m hoping they’ll go close to the edge but wont stick out.
By going up 3 inch with my Icon lift (hope it comes in soon!) I wanted to widen the stance as much as possible to counteract some of the effects of raising the center of gravity.