Traded for a New One

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Mjolnir

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I traded my 2011 Procharged Black Raptor for a white fully loaded 2013. There's so much that's changed from then to now. It even sits taller, much taller. With the same Saints Off Road front bumper, you can see so much more control arm/steering gear. I know for a fact it's taller because I have a tennis ball hanging from my garage ceiling so I know where to stop (only have a matter of inches between the wall and garage door clearances), and the ball hits the windshield about 6 inches sooner. I will say, Ford has it going on these days with their interiors. I ordered the lockpick yesterday to be able to activate the front view camera with out the required conditions from Ford. Anyone else use this? Also bought the Icon UPA kit and the RPG Tie Rods, those will go on soon. Those Icon Control Arms are one fine example of machine work. I run a CNC machine shop and can really appreciate the surface finishes, radiuses, and fixtures that had to be built to machine these. Fine work it is!
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Which lockpick, the nav TV, or is there something else out? I want to be able to activate my front camera, dont' really care about the rest of the features.
 
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Let me know how the lock pick works for you and how hard the install is. I'm looking at doing this myself.

I bought mine from Navigation Lockpicks and Prius Accessories and I will say, they did a lot of R&D on this little thing and it's certainly worth the money. Now, install? It's plug and play, so easy to hook up (ONCE YOU RIP YOUR ENTIRE DASH OUT!!!) Ford screwed us hard on this deal... All you have to do is get behind your monitor to plug it in but the steps to get there are insane. Is it hard, not really BUT it will take a lot of time and patience and you'll have to be SUPER careful to not break the fragile plastic tabs on all of your dash pieces. The instructions they send kind of suck but they did an install on youtube you can look up, very helpful.
 
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I called Coastal tech last week. The lockpick will NOT enable the factory front camera. You have to purchase another camera and put it in your grill. He said they sell mounts to give it an OEM look.

The only VIM that works with factory that I know of is the Nav-TV and even then you have to splice into the cabling under the hood.

Please feel free to contact Coastal tech to confirm but I did research this before I made my purchase.

I am having a local shop install mine for $120.


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