Adding low profile reverse lights! (Write up)

[colo-pr]

my luck, Amazon is showing it as "Currently unavailable". :-(

 

[ramButz]

i got my from "Vleds"for my07"Avy".before i traded in my truck i just took them off to later to put on the 19rebel

https://www.vleds.com/lpr-reverse-72-w.html

 

[Livinfast85]

i got my from "Vleds"for my07"Avy".before i traded in my truck i just took them off to later to put on the 19rebel

https://www.vleds.com/lpr-reverse-72-w.html

I saw that but wasn't paying $100 for a backup light.

 

[ramButz]

this is just me(IMHO),,i just to it to a "Car Installer"done!....but thats just me(IMHO)!

 

[Boa24]

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
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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.
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Now that I had a good connection I re-wrapped the 7 pin harness with 3m black electrical tape.

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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.

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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.

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The light output is VERY impressive for the size of these lights!

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I have a set of these lights brand new in the box for sale if anyone is interested. I purchased them but ended up going the license place light route. Send me a PM if interested.

 

[Jako]

More info on reverse lights:

OEM LED reverse lights are absolutely terrible...what have you guys done to address this?

Finished, these are the Rigid Ignite diffused. Made a big difference! Really would like to see how you mount those on bumper in daylight. Thanks.

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