Great advice! I don’t live anywhere near trails or anything like that so that isn’t much of a worry for me. Worst case is I forget to air down when going to the OBX
Very nice and clean. I upgraded from a plastic bumper w/ Fogs to the modular bumper and also want to hook up the whites to the factory fog light switch and amber to the aux. I assume I won't have to complete a forscan since I already have the factory fog light switch? Any other tips or pointers in making the harness? I saw your previous posts on the wiring, etc. Thanks!Got mine in!!!! I still have to complete Forscan to turn on the fog light switch (for the white light) but the ambers are routed to Aux 3 and I am really liking these. I might run these in amber most of the time. It really goes well with Velocity Blue.
I was extremely hesitant before putting them in. But once I had one side in and took a few steps back...I was in!!! These are allot better than I thought. Truly blown away. I am really big on keeping the OEM look and these do that perfectly. For $200...this is the best mod I have done so far. and to think I was going to sell these (before putting them on) and spend $1k+ on a rigid kit. SO HAPPY I DIDNT.
The hardest part was fishing the harness into place and then cable management so everything was tucked (zip tied) nicely away. I did have to run to Home Depot in the middle of it to grabe a T40 wrench bit. I was able to get one side off with a T40 screwdriver. But the other side (passenger) I could not do by hand and had to use a wrench.
Next project will be bumper lights...not sure if I'll do KC or Rigid, but narrowed it down to them.
The Harness:
This is the final harness that I ended up making. It's a combination of the mabett harness and a part that I made to connect to the fog light cable.
Before:
After:
How they came out of the box. Was basically spot on. These are balanced lights. I did make a slight adjustment to raise the right side (by the pipes).
Thank you sir. If you already have the fogs and the proper switch, then I dont see why forscan would be needed. Kind of a bonus for you, one less step. Regarding the harness: as long you dont make my earlier mistake, and mix up the grounds, then you should be golden. It's honestly a pretty simple install. cable/harness management was the hardest part. I might even go back in and clean it up a bit more now that I have the lights in and realize that I have a bit of excess cable/harness that I am trying to hide. In addition, something that helped me with cleaning up the cables/harness...I got zip tie sticky mounts (the square sticky mounts that you run the zip tie through). I used these within the bumper (near the back of the lights) to stick the cables directly to the back of the inside of the bumper. When the cable/harness started to run up (the driver side front) is where I zip tied to pre-existing places (other cables mounts that Ford put in or fixed mounts under the hood). Hope that helps. Reach out with any questions!!!
I just had to try using both aux switches, but it just stays with the first color selected.
Curious as well… Did anyone answer?
I ended up installing them with the RTR and IMO it looks great. There’s a slight gap when viewing from one angle but you really gotta look for it. Haven’t had a chance to wire them yet so hadn’t posted about them. I’ll grab a few pics of them installed later today.
