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rocknrod Enthusiast

rocknrod

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I want to buy a light bar and also noticed it is NOT plug and play, uses 4 pin.

Man I hate to cut wires. I guess the only real choice is that Curt plug above.

Thanks :)

Mikeb52r Enthusiast

Mikeb52r

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I had a light bar on for eight months, but then my mother told me it was acting weird while she was following me one day. After I checked it out, and couldn't fix it, I just ripped it off the truck. There are not a lot of them running around here, but most of the ones I do see, seem to have shorts and not function properly.

 

Long story short, had one, it went bad, removed it, like the truck better without it.

sdeeter19555 Senior Enthusiast

sdeeter19555

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I had a light bar on for eight months, but then my mother told me it was acting weird while she was following me one day. After I checked it out, and couldn't fix it, I just ripped it off the truck. There are not a lot of them running around here, but most of the ones I do see, seem to have shorts and not function properly.

 

Long story short, had one, it went bad, removed it, like the truck better without it.

 

 

 

I had a Line-of-Fire on my 2004.5 Dodge from within two weeks of buying the truck (new in 2004), it had to be removed after it was crushed buy a Jeep Liberty that had been driven into me by an 18-wheeler...up to that point it had worked flawlessly, and that was at about 260k miles, last spring (right before I bought the Silverado). That truck (and the light bar) saw every state in the US at least once, and in every weather condition...never had an issue with an LED or the housing. The Dodge's had a secondary 4-way (in addition to the 7-way RV) tucked under the rear bumper, so that installation took less than ten minutes including mounting the thing.

 

If you get a good name unit, it should last a long time. Line-of-FIre was the first/original product, I actually had one of the first one's seen on the road around these parts, they were really new at that point.

 

Another option is what I just did...I drilled the piece below the tailgate:

 

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Those are 3/4" LED...you drill a 13/16" hole, add a gromet, and push the light into place. You could do a whole string of them under there...and nothing to break off, and they could be replaced individually if one failed.

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