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All right, cruising the land here, and I got to share with you this awesome 2015 LX570. So I just—and and we'll pull up my rig back here in a second because we just met at a shop. I'm just getting a minor repair done. Um, this is the same Yankee gold. So actually, James, the owner of this rig, was inspired by the Yankee gold I put on my truck, so that was flattering and cool, and it looks awesome. Um, so I said, "Hey, let's let's meet up," because he wants a fifth, like a, you know, fifth spare, and I had a couple Rock Warriors, so I'm just selling them as singles, so he'll still get that done. But check it out. If you remember, or if you've ever seen my channel, I did one on a 2008. I called it the "poor man's lift," just, you know, instead of buying King shocks, Icons, or whatever Old Man EMU, I ended up putting a spacer in the front of a Land Cruiser 2008, and it, the front um—and you know, rumor has it that a lot of Land Cruisers that come out of um Japan that go to other parts of the world, they have that spacer, but in the US they didn't, to bring the bumper down to meet FDA specs, you know, as far as, you know, hitting a pedestrian or something. So simple fix. I lifted my 2008. I'll put the link to that video in the description below, but you can't do that with an LX 570. Why? Cuz it's got automatic height control. But even better, what you can do—and James was just going over it with me, and he's going to pull up a picture for us to see—there is this set screw here. If you can see right back there, and I'll show you in the rear as well. You move that literally like a ¼ inch, and it will make an inch difference. So he was showing me all his specs, like he went up an inch, an inch here, like on high, went from six to seven um—and even, you know, in the standard height, you're up about ¾ of an inch to an inch. But visibly here, we got the uh—so what are we looking at here? This is—so this is on high before the sensor lift, so it's about six. Okay? And then this is on high after the sensor lift, which is about seven.
Yeah. And then a normal height, and normal height, it's about this before sensor lift, before sensor lift, and then after the sensor, so about another inch difference doing that. Look how easy that is. Oh my God! So um—and I just wanted to show you in the rear if this will show us clearly. Where is it? Where, where is it that you did the—find in the rear? You got to go—I saw it so clearly before. Yeah, it's—let me see, let me—trying to find it. Oh, because you had it on high, or you have it on high. They do have a high. It's uh—well, it's it's the same sort of bracket that the um—yeah, we'll find it for you guys here in a second. So when I saw James, I was like, "Dude, your wheels are amazing, but what's going on with your tires?" So, you know what I did? I got him my tire coat, and I also pointed out this plastic. This plastic is—is in need—this plastic—and, of course, the kick plate. So this kick plate, all of that is the Sakote that I discovered a few years back, and I put the Sakote trim, the black trim, on half of my wife's kick plate. Two years later, it was black and gray. So here is the tire coat, and uh, I'm I'm loving this product. I figured, "God, if these guys put out such a good product to make that amazing with their coating, it's got to be great for tires." And by the way, Sakote is the same company that does the powder coat Prismatic, and they do the Sakote for firearms and stuff. So let me open up that bottle, and I'm going to do a bit of his a tire. This should show you the difference it makes and how awesome it's going to look with his amazing wheel. So now the tire will be just as nice. Hang on a sec. All right, so here's the Sakote. James is going to help me with filming, but watch—watch that tire become amazing. So I always do it in sections. Maybe come up closer. Right? So easy. It's one swipe, and then get into that KO2 on that same angle as that. Look at that already! And the reason—and you want to do it in the shade; you don't want to do it in the sun. So—and this is—this coating is going to last not until your next car wash; this is going to last for months. And if you go off-roading, and look, you can hit—look, look at that—you can hit that and then just wipe it off. So don't worry about hitting some of your powder coat; this is not going to hurt it at all. In fact, it's going to protect it, but it's not meant for the powder coat; this is meant for the rubber. So there we go. And what I like about this is it gives it a natural, just new tire black look. And then let's say I just did the whole tire, right? I'll do one final coat, right? And just once—you don't just—you don't rub, rub, rub, rub—it's just one, one swipe, one swipe, one swipe. So I'm going to let James finish that at home, but look how nice that becomes. I don't know if the camera is doing it justice. Looks good. Oh yeah, but it's going to give it—doesn't give it a uh—here I'll just grab the camera—it doesn't give it a slick, like you know you spat—spit up your your slick onto your car and you get black. Especially on a white truck, it's just going to keep it a natural sheen, and uh, it's going to protect the tire. So you go off-road and you get mud on it—we didn't do this side, obviously—look at that. We went from that to that. And you know, when it's too shiny, it's like try-hard. It's like, "Oh yeah, that guy's really trying to make his truck look slick." And what off-road truck has Armor All slick tires? Just make them look new. So that's the tire coat. Let's see if my rig is done, and we'll pull my truck side by side, and I'll share with you—I did Icon Stage 6, paid a pretty penny for it to be done, and now I see his LX570, I'm like, "What? 15 minutes and turning a couple bolts, you got the same lift that I got? What the hell? That's not fair!" All right, so let's pull up uh the 200 series behind the LX here. Okay, we're at the rear, and uh James and I want to show you where that adjustment is, and it's right—do I see it? Yeah, it's right here. That's—that's what you're going to adjust, so up or down, and that will adjust your automatic—automatic height control and make literally a difference of an inch. So I asked uh James, I'm like, "If you were to sell your car, how long would it take you to get the uh the car back up to the same level?" It's like 15 minutes. You know, once you know where to look, once you know uh where it is, it's a simple adjustment, and it's right there on this side. It's almost like there's like a—it shows you about an inch of going up or down to adjust it. So you take it from the middle and adjust it so that it's going to give you the height. All right, we're almost got my 200 series done. We were putting two new pigtails cuz a rat got in my hood and chewed those wires. That's all he did; just—he went and said, "I'm going to give Cruising Line a hard time." So we're uh putting in new pigtail wires, and it's almost done, and then we'll pull it up behind the LX here. All right, so my guy is done. The 200 series—there's the shop dog—that one super clean. That—that one—both for sale. Back to the tires—not done, very faded and brownish looking—and that one's done with that Serakote. But here's the key: next time you wash the car, you don't have to do this again. And the second and the third and the fourth and the fifth time you wash the car, you don't have to keep doing this. It's done. So this is going to be good for multiple washes, for a few months. That's the beauty of it, uh using that tire coat. And it's got ceramic—true ceramic, right?—because there's SiO2 and there's ceramic. This is the real deal. All right, so it's interesting to see the white colors of the 200 series and the LX. So the LX is like a Bright Crystal white. I—I should check to see what they call it. I remember back in the day the LX 470 was called Crystal white, and then this white—this is the uh Sapphire, if I'm not mistaken. So it's a little bit less bright white than the LX. So it's just a a matter of taste, right? So Yankee gold inspired the LX to get Yankee gold. The only difference is this Yankee gold and the black um fake bead locker has uh also powder-coated bolts just to get rid of the silver cuz I was doing a whole chrome delete on this 200 series, so all the chrome is gone. SLE rear bumper. It's got the uh Icon Stage 6 installed over at uh Off-Road Warehouse. Thank you, boys. And we have to do one final adjustment, so it's still going to go up about an inch, ¾ of an inch to an inch in the front, and uh it's got a KDSS lean right now, so we have to redo that. Uh, KDSS lean means it's leaning on this side, the passenger side. The Land Cruiser lean is if it's leaning on the driver's side, just FYI. But yeah, think about it—think about how much money I spent on that whole setup, front and back, compared to James just—screw—turned a couple bolts on a Sunday afternoon. He's got the same height as I've got. I think we're both seven in—in the back, and I'm actually about 5 and 1/12 inches in the front. That's going to go up to 6 and ½, and I think you're closer to six inch in the front, right? Seven and six. But there you have it. If you have a Land Cruiser, you could do the spacer, and if you have an LX like this one, you can do just those little bolts. There's a whole thing on it on IHA Mud um—so look more into detail, cuz I have not done it. I'm just sharing you what—what James did. I went the Icon Stage 6 route because that does not have automatic height control, unlike the '06-'07 Land Cruisers. There were some that came with the automatic height control, like the LX 470s. Toyota never did that with the 200 series. So there you go. LX—think about it—like if you're—if LX 570s usually go for a better price than a 200 series, so you can get an LX, you can do that AHC lift um—which is not a module bypass; it's just going straight to the sensors and that 10 mm bolt and uh resetting it—versus sensor lift—and then you just put it on high for the AHC sensor lift and put it on high. Yeah, so right now it is on high, so when he goes 20 mph, it will come down, but it'll come down to that new preset standard height, which is about an inch higher than it was prior before making that adjustment. And then the only other difference is the LX is sitting on 33s, and this Land Cruiser is sitting on 35s, both 17-inch Rock Warrior wheels. 35s, 33s. So you really—you know, could you tell the difference if you see one car by itself? No. But when you see them side by side, you—you do see those—those BFGoodrichs have a lot more meat. And by the way, when I say 35s, technically, with the 315 measurement, um it is 34.6—no, 34.4—and then 32.6, I believe, or 32.4 is the true—true measurement. All right, well, thanks for tuning in. James, thanks for sharing your LX 570, and uh we did one tire—finish them all with that tire coat. Anybody who wants tire coat, trim coat, or paint protect, which is a true ceramic, which is easy to use for your car versus uh—I used to always use Griot's Garage, which had the highest SiO2—well, come to find out the uh the true ceramic is the paint protect from Sakote. So it's real ceramic, and it's priced right; it's—it's affordable, it's easy to use—wipe on, buff out—and your car looks shiny. So there we go. It—LX and a Land Cruiser. If you're in the market for either, there they are side by side. Thanks for tuning in. Happy trails, and we'll catch you on the next one.