Never take a freshly-painted, lifted truck through an automatic car wash. You will spend the ensuing three days auditioning for the next Karate Kid role. Your hands will smell like car polish for a month. And you will be nicknamed "Swirly" for about a year.
Buy a white truck. Then you can take it through any carwash you want.
People-even your best friends-will take a photo shoot as an opportunity to drive your truck like a rental car and dismiss all blame by tossing back the keys and saying "the mag guy wanted pictures of it that way."
A Gen 2 Dodge on 35s is still a great-looking truck, despite the fact that they drive like a flat bottom boat.
Shop owners would go out of business were it not for all the extra work brought in by do-it-yourselfers.
You can't spend $300 to replace the microwave, but $1,500 for a new turbo? That was just something you had to do.
Diesel mods are like Lays potato chips. You can't do just one.
Every tuner should come with a set of new tires.
Nobody in the history of time has been able to build 600 horsepower and "take it easy on the stock trans" to save money.