Raptor style Grille Lights

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Nope, not until now, looks great, although I have a different grille, waiting for a release for the raptor grill lights if they ever come out.
 

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Thanks for starting the thread. I've purchased some lights on eBay, but they are too small. I didn't want to go find rivets or fabricate a metal plate to hold them. Gonna return them and wait for Stage 3 to get the Raptor grille lights out for sale.
 

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Saw these and got tempted. I'm also on the fence though...since I'm also debating if I'll go for the raptor grill (which I'm guessing these may not mount onto)
 

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Why wait? Make your own...total cost, $15 for the lights, $5 for the aluminum stock to make brackets and some screws, epoxy, wires.
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@msfitjoy Do you have a link to the lights? They look sweet!
 

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@Msfitoy Thanks, I'm following your thread
 

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I just finished installing the same lights @Msfitoy installed. I did the mount a bit differently. I oriented the lights vertically. I found they squeezed snugly into place that way and had a slightly different look. I spray painted the back of them black for a consistent look. I wired in parallel like Sid instructed. I used plastic specific epoxy to secure the light. I put it just on the back so as not to damage the grill.

The wiring was really easy. The white wire ties to any grounded screw. The red wire taps in to the marker lights. This is done by using an inline tap you can get at any auto supply store. On one side you insert your red wire, and on the other side you straddle it around the marker light wire. Squeeze the tap shut and you have then combined the wires.

The location of the marker light wire is near the base of the battery box. It’s attached to a wiring harness which you can unplug to get a bit more room to work. There is some black electrical tape you can push back some as well. If you use my picture and Sid’s picture you should be able to locate it easily. The wire is the upper left wire on the harness. My eyes said it’s mostly green with an orange stripe (Sid said yellow stripe).

To wire the lights together I used butt splice connectors that you crimp then heat to be waterproof. Here are some pics in full light, twilight and dark. All credit here goes to @Msfitoy who found the Amazon light and the correct wiring. Total cost is $15 for the lights then a few bucks for epoxy and wiring stuff.

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My attempt at this failed spectacularly.
I got the lights all wired together and hooked up to the appropriate wire.
Hit the unlock on the remote. Marker lights came on, but nothing from the grill lights.
Closed the hood, locked the doors and hit the remote start. Two of the grill lights flashed, then went out.
Not sure what the heck I did wrong???[/QUOTE]
 
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My attempt at this failed spectacularly.
I got the lights all wired together and hooked up to the appropriate wire.
Hit the unlock on the remote. Marker lights came on, but nothing from the grill lights.
Closed the hood, locked the doors and hit the remote start. Two of the grill lights flashed, then went out.
Not sure what the heck I did wrong???
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I’m no electrician but it may be there are two things going on:

1) the 3rd grill light is not successfully connected in parallel. Parallel wiring should be like the top one in the diagram. It’s also possible your third light is bad. You could test that by just tapping the leads on a 12v battery and seeing if they all light up. I did this with a spare battery before wiring to the truck.

2) maybe you tapped into the wrong wire in the harness? Mine was green with an orange stripe. You certainly clearly successfully tapped into something. A turn signal?

Sorry man! I’m confident you will get this working though. If you share some pics it could help too

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I’m no electrician but it may be there are two things going on:

1) the 3rd grill light is not successfully connected in parallel. Parallel wiring should be like the top one in the diagram. It’s also possible your third light is bad. You could test that by just tapping the leads on a 12v battery and seeing if they all light up. I did this with a spare battery before wiring to the truck.

2) maybe you tapped into the wrong wire in the harness? Mine was green with an orange stripe. You certainly clearly successfully tapped into something. A turn signal?

Sorry man! I’m confident you will get this working though. If you share some pics it could help too

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Thanks David,
I'm almost positive I tapped into the correct wire. (Kinda' hard to mistake).
-I ran one long Ground wire, and used three inline taps to connect the white wires off the three lights to it.
Then connected one end to a grounded screw.
-I ran one long 'Hot' wire, connected to the Marker wire with an inline tap, and the three red wires off the lights connected with three inline taps as well.
I would have thought that was a close approximation of what you did.

It's been raining most of the day here (even started to hail while i had the truck backed out of the garage to work on this. That was a mad scramble).
So I had to give up for the day.
I'll have to check all my wiring and take another crack at it when weather/time permits.
 
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I’m almost certain you’re not getting 12v to the wire from your splice, the 12v to the side marker lights are the striped color.
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