Livinfast85
Well-Known Member
This will be a write up for how I added my lights to help with visibility when backing up at night.
If you feel like I do, then one of the down falls of these trucks is they have very poor visibility at night when backing up. I wanted to add some lights but i didn't want some big eye-sore of led cubes hanging off the back of my truck. So after days of research I came up with these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC6D3MC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
After receiving the lights I inspected them and they are very solid, especially for the price!
I started by popping out my 7 way trailer plug and removed the tape back approx 4". I made sure to leave the wrap by the plug so that the grey plastic piece would stay under the original wrap.
After the wrap was stripped back I identified the BLACK WIRE as the 12v Reverse light power and the WHITE WIRE is the ground wire. I then cut the wires on the lights i bought down to approximately 3' and stripped them back to connect them. Now, I hate using the quick tap wire splicers but with my time constraint it was my only choice.
Now that I had a good connection I re-wrapped the 7 pin harness with 3m black electrical tape.
Once the tape was re wrapped I reconnected the 7 pin harness to the trailer connector and clipped it back in the hole.
Underneath the truck I used a zip tie to hold what little excess wire i had to the factory harness.
The lights were placed right by my hitch on the bottom of the bumper with the supplied 3M tape. They do not interfere with the hitch or the hitch pin.
The light output is VERY impressive for the size of these lights!
If you feel like I do, then one of the down falls of these trucks is they have very poor visibility at night when backing up. I wanted to add some lights but i didn't want some big eye-sore of led cubes hanging off the back of my truck. So after days of research I came up with these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC6D3MC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
After receiving the lights I inspected them and they are very solid, especially for the price!
I started by popping out my 7 way trailer plug and removed the tape back approx 4". I made sure to leave the wrap by the plug so that the grey plastic piece would stay under the original wrap.
After the wrap was stripped back I identified the BLACK WIRE as the 12v Reverse light power and the WHITE WIRE is the ground wire. I then cut the wires on the lights i bought down to approximately 3' and stripped them back to connect them. Now, I hate using the quick tap wire splicers but with my time constraint it was my only choice.
Now that I had a good connection I re-wrapped the 7 pin harness with 3m black electrical tape.
Once the tape was re wrapped I reconnected the 7 pin harness to the trailer connector and clipped it back in the hole.
Underneath the truck I used a zip tie to hold what little excess wire i had to the factory harness.
The lights were placed right by my hitch on the bottom of the bumper with the supplied 3M tape. They do not interfere with the hitch or the hitch pin.
The light output is VERY impressive for the size of these lights!
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