When you customize your truck you make it truly and surely yours. While anyone can buy a factory model and leave it as is, if you want your truck to reflect your personality and taste as a truck owner, you definitely have to customize it. Here are five fun ways to show your truck some love.

A Flipped Tailgate Handle

This common trick is a cool way to make your truck more friendly to all sorts of custom designs. It means that the tailgate handle is moved from outside of the truck to the inside. This gives you smooth space to put cool paint or graphics on and will make your truck truly stand out in the crowd.

Electrically Activated Doors And Tailgates

This is more commonly used on hot rods, but can also be seen on trucks belonging to particularly savvy owners from time to time. You can remove the handles of your doors entirely, making use of an electric latch with a remote instead.  

In-Car LEDs

These small lights are highly customizable, coming in various colors and degrees of brightness. They offer unexpected indoor lighting effects that wow. Whether you want red, blue, green, or any other color, these tiny lights can be easily applied to the interior of your truck.  

Custom Leather Seats

You spend a lot of time in your truck, so why not make sure it has the perfect look and feel?You could make the inside of your truck reminiscent of any era, making it feel like a real blast into the past, or keep it as modern as you like. When it comes time to customize your seats, the options are almost endless. While you are spending all this time on the seat, consider installing custom seat heaters for optimum comfort within your truck.

Universal-fit Rear-mounted Truck Turbo

This may sound like a very out there suggestion, but it is easier than you might think to add a turbocharger to any pickup truck. There is a relatively inexpensive universal kit you can purchase to help you do it.   

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But there is hope. This article from eHow.com can help. It explains each step you need to take to ensure your truck comes out the way you had envisioned.

1. Take a “before” pictures of your old truck’s interior and exterior. Load the pictures into a computer and print out several copies in black and white; lighten the image to a gray scale. Use these digital images and gray print outs to test out different customization options for your old truck.

2. Complete a thorough check for rust. Inspect the old truck’s under carriage, under the hood, around the doors (especially the hinges) and around the bumpers. If you find rust, bring the truck to a body specialist for repairs. Rust spreads and can ruin the old truck body.

3. Hire a mechanic -one who specializes in old truck restoration – to inspect the truck for mechanical issues and oil leaks, if you don’t have experience with engine rebuilding. It is fairly common to find oil leaks in an old truck, especially trucks that have been left sitting or not running for a while. Oil leaks that build up on engine parts can catch fire when the engine is hot and running.

4. Make a customization plan for your old truck. Think about the paint schemes and colors for both the exterior and interior of your old truck.

5. Sketch, photograph, paint or draw your ideas for customizing your old truck’s paint job. Be sure that you know the exact colors that you desire – different lighting affects a color’s look. Hire a professional to paint your old truck and/or add the designs that you desire.

6. Select and order all the accessories that you desire to add to you old truck. Chrome accessories are popular; for instance, chrome rims with chrome caps, chrome fenders, chrome steering wheels and chrome mirror covers.

7. Decide whether the current seat and interior material is in good enough condition to clean and keep. If not, choose to either use covers on the seats or have the material on the seats and interior replaced.

8. You will probably need the help of a professional while customizing your old truck to make sure the repairs and parts replacement are done with the utmost efficiency, especially if this kind of project is new to you.

And who better to help you along the way than Trick Trucks. Each Trick Trucks location offers full service installation of all parts and accessories. With over 30 years of service, our counter sales staff will keep you up to speed on the latest accessories that we can install on your vehicle. Whether it is your own personal vehicle, or your work truck, Trick Trucks will provide factory authorized service for all of your installation needs. All work is guaranteed and all factory warrantees apply.

All products can be purchased in our showroom and can be professionally installed at all of our twelve locations.

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