Posts by aobfarm

Ooooo! National brands even! @Bill Martin spares no expense!

Thank you @Painter, you are indeed a gentleman and a joy!

Thank you, it's a consideration and a starting price. I guess she actually premeditated this. Evidently she asked a neighborhood body shop but they had no clue. If they cannot put it into their estimate software (make, model, etc) they are lost. She said that if we got some pricing he would see if he could do it for that. ???? Weird.

Mama, out of the blue, asked me to ask the gurus a question. She was watching some of the footage and said "there's too many red ones, which one is us?" So..... Mama wants to know what range everyone is paying to have the Slings painted. She is wanting an old signature color we used back in the day, just a GM metallic with clear coat. We will be leaving the trim black. So for a basic 2 part (paint and clear) paint job, what are we in for? $3k? $5k? Less? More? @Painter?

Thanks all!

Thank you!

Excellent thought, thank you!

I wasn't originally thinking braided but that would be dressier than smooth vinyl! Thanks for the idea and source @Chefjohn!

Trying to find a source for plastic wiring sleeve (sheath) and coming up empty. Does anyone have a source? I can find split loom but I want a cleaner, more professional look.

Thanks all!

Wife wondered how likely it was that the passenger would get burned on the Laker style pipes. I thought it was a real possibility. Any feedback on that? We ended up adding a Welter baffle to our old style Alpha side exhaust to remedy the drone and it worked to get home but she is still eyeballing the side pipes, go figure.

I understand what lights up. The general rule is Amber from the grill to the middle of the vehicle and red from the middle back to the last inch. Since it will be so far back, I don't think anyone would say anything about it even it is visible from the front. I mean that's hardly your fault is it?

Red facing the rear should be no issue obviously, and I would think with it physically being behind the seat that no one would say anything even if part of it could be seen from the front. YMMV

Thanks guys. Let me back up here. Retired LEO. I realize that I can't go down the road with it on, never said that I was planning to. I still have much better lighting to get into trouble with if I wanted that. This was for static display only (car shows, etc). Just asking if anyone had done it and if so, how? I'll just order some cheap light strips and tinker.....

Saw a Sling that someone had added LED lighting to the windshield so that the edges were lit in a matching color (red). Looked nice and seemed like it would be a inexpensive, easy add-on. Has anyone done this? It looked like the lighting for the rear Wind restrictors.

I have pulled a 5x8 landscaping type trailer with a minimal load on it before but 1. It was less than 15mi, and 2. A bit of an emergency. It handled it well though. Attached is a pic of our normal trailer. If mama goes on a spending spree and loads it up, I load it mindful of tongue weight and check it with a handheld digital scale.

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Never would have imagined towing a trailer with another Slingshot on it.
My first thought was the trailer better have electric brakes and then burning up the clutch.

Secondly, IMO, the hitch needs to be attached to the frame and not the swingarm.

I did see a Slingshot in Maggie Valley where the ball hitch was attached to a frame structure which was connected to upper and lower sections (4 points of connection) of the Slingshot.

Should have taken a picture.

What you saw is a RIVCO hitch. I only saw one other besides ours so it may have been ours that you looked at. As you said, the hitch attatches to the upper and lower frames taking all the pull off the swingarm. RIVCO rates it at 800# but I would say it would do much more if the Wycked hitch is rated at 1000# plus as it attatches to BOTH frame points not just hanging off the back deck.

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We have a +3 and bought a used Twist Top at SSITS. Big mistake. They don't interfere with each other but it turned the cockpit into an oven!

Main fuse box. Your owners manual should show which one.

You can buy the Slingmods mount as mentioned or for $40 a member sells a relocation kit that works well. It brings the seat forward enough that the passenger can recline the seat back. My wife loves it!

@WOLF, make that four. Ours were bad at 9800mi!

Love the guys at Tri-County. That's where we bought ours and other than a mechanic using a pipe wrench on our new steering wheel once, they treated us well. Missed that when we came to Ohio and had to deal with Iron Pony!