New Poster... Longtime Lurker...

I bought a 2017 about a month ago and got the LED lighting all the way around. I have LED hideaways on all my other trucks and used to mount some Whelen Vertex LEDs on the the little 45 degree angle piece adjacent to the brake/signal bulb inside the older taillights.

I don't think I can do that anymore... What's everyone's solution for hideaways with the new LED taillights?

 

By the way, figured I should at least post up a pic of the new truck!

 

You'll probably just have to use perimeter lighting, just like the pic of the Ford strobes in the configurator...those look like SoundOff Ghost lights.

You can do windshield mounts for front visibility, plus Whelen and Soundoff have plenty of products that can mount in the front fascia area. I really like the Intersectors, they give true 180* visibility...in front, back, or under the mirrors.

Also, note that now you can get lights that have 2 or 3 colors. So, for example, your rear amber or red could have a white also....which you could wire up for extra scene lighting.

If it's a work truck, just cut, drill, attach, and connect like normal. If it's a personal vehicle, you might want to do front & rear windshield mounts so you don't have to cut & drill.

You can always go with a lightbar (a real warning lightbar from Whelen or SoundOff, not the Chinese Ebay stuff that is only white)....there is some cool stuff out there now. Just like the others, now you can have an amber warning strobe that can switch to all white for scene lighting at night.

 

Here is a link to a warning bar....lots of lights do this now. The same module can change colors. So, in the front you can set it to amber traffic control where it signals across to either side, or set it to stobe amber, or even have the entire front, sides, and back light up white. They are not separate color modules, all the modules have mulitiple LED dies in them.
https://www.soundoffsignal.com/produ...-led-lightbar/

 

Yeah, the front I'm good with, I always mount high on the grill anyway to minimize reflection from the plow... It's the rear I'm struggling with... This is my personal truck and I like to be able to keep it low profile... I usually put bars on them once I rotate them into the fleet... Guessing no one has tried putting anything in the taillight like I did with these 16 and earlier styles...

 

You can still get those inserts, but flush mount them on the back of the truck...it's just not as concealed. https://www.soundoffsignal.com/produ...er-led-insert/

The easiest thing is probably to mount an interior traffic bar in the cab or exterior traffic bar on a headache rack. https://www.soundoffsignal.com/produ...ic-controller/

These under the bumper or over the tailgate: https://www.soundoffsignal.com/produ...e-mount-light/

You can also do license plate brackets, Whelen & SoundOff both offer those. there is a pic of the license plate mount in here: https://www.soundoffsignal.com/produ...e-mount-light/

Your creativity is the only limiting factor.

 

Thanks

 

One more I just thought of is if you don't use your cab mounted bed lights much, put the LED insert strobes in there. You may have enough space to fit them with the factory lights still in place...but you'll have to look at it.

If you can't fit them with factory lights still there, and if legal in your area, you could run the power wire through a 2-way switch (SPDT). Factory bed lights would be in position #1 and position #2 could be run through a strobe module. Then, it would be dual use.

LoL....Yah, I've got a bit of experience with this stuff.

The Ghost light, if ordered correctly, will come with a c-clamp that will give a super-low-profile under your bumper. it can be left there or easily removed if needed.

 

Whatever helps with ideas! I'm going to try hard to get it somewhere in the vicinity of the taillight... The way stuff is setup on my other trucks right now, I have really good definition on the 4 corners that gives me a good 360 warning.