Favorite After Market Add On

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Like the subject line says, what is your favorite aftermarket add on to your Expy?

Could be led conversion, headlights, lift, etc. If you have links to the product or where you got the item that's great too!
 

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My Baja fogs are probably #1 at this point with my Rigid reverse lights as a close #2. I have a renewed appreciation for the reverse lights after 1 recently failed and I had to ship the pair off for warranty service. Backing 35 yards up my winding driveway with 3' of snow on each side in the dark was definitely more challenging without them. :)
 

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after a lot of research, i decided i could go to a set of 285/75/17 tires without having to touch the suspension. these are 33.8 inches tall and increased ground clearance by 1.1 inches over OEM, taking me to right at 10" of ground clearance.
i did that for two reasons - there are damn few choices for a 2nd gen to increase ground clearance, and my current tires were nearly bald. Texas requires an annual "safety inspection" and i was amazed my tires passed - they sure weren't going to pass again. This lets me push out suspension/lift work for a couple of years.
I would love bilstein 5100's, but they don't make them for my truck.
i bought a tuner, which I am very dissatisfied with; my next upgrades will be body armor, intake and exhaust work to free up the flow. I'm considering a larger throttle body and at least (real) dual exhaust with high flow cats and mufflers, possibly even (shorty) headers. Will eventually get headers in any case, but i realized there is benefit to be had in opening up the exhaust with the OEM manifolds.
though I'm just over 100K miles, the engine has been gone over and requires nothing. yet. the fire department I bought it from replaced the plugs, so that was one less thing to worry about. i got new front HD control arms, and I'm upgrading brakes as I go.
 
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after a lot of research, i decided i could go to a set of 285/75/17 tires without having to touch the suspension. these are 33.8 inches tall and increased ground clearance by 1.1 inches over OEM, taking me to right at 10" of ground clearance.
i did that for two reasons - there are damn few choices for a 2nd gen to increase ground clearance, and my current tires were nearly bald. Texas requires an annual "safety inspection" and i was amazed my tires passed - they sure weren't going to pass again. This lets me push out suspension/lift work for a couple of years.
I would love bilstein 5100's, but they don't make them for my truck.
i bought a tuner, which I am very dissatisfied with; my next upgrades will be body armor, intake and exhaust work to free up the flow. I'm considering a larger throttle body and at least (real) dual exhaust with high flow cats and mufflers, possibly even (shorty) headers. Will eventually get headers in any case, but i realized there is benefit to be had in opening up the exhaust with the OEM manifolds.
though I'm just over 100K miles, the engine has been gone over and requires nothing. yet. the fire department I bought it from replaced the plugs, so that was one less thing to worry about. i got new front HD control arms, and I'm upgrading brakes as I go.

I installed the iarmor running boards and recommend them. I'm 230lbs and they don't move when I step on them. Really gotta Crank on em to tighten em up. Also you can adjust them all the way out so car doors will hit them first.
 
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My Baja fogs are probably #1 at this point with my Rigid reverse lights as a close #2. I have a renewed appreciation for the reverse lights after 1 recently failed and I had to ship the pair off for warranty service. Backing 35 yards up my winding driveway with 3' of snow on each side in the dark was definitely more challenging without them. :)

Which lights do you use and where did you mount them?
 

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E8927234-B037-4B36-A1AB-089082F7BE80.png I gotta go with this new pet sling the wife bought for our Blue Heeler. I still have all the pet liners lining all the rear cargo area that I purchased from Cargoliners when we first bought the bus. But since she bought this sling from Amazon, that’s where my Blue rides now and she loves being so much closer to us instead of way in the back. It straps around the first and second row headrests and covers the second row seats and first row seat backs. It even has a screen like netting in between the front seats so she can see what’s going on up front. We now can use the rear for our luggage and cargo when we go to our cabin on weekends. We used to have her in the rear behind the third row folded up, and would load all our stuff in through the rear side doors on the third row seats and folded second row. What a PITA that was. I have second row buckets so I use an old rolled up sleeping bag in the middle underneath.... works perfectly.
 
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