Mike1220's 2014 Sierra

blackout07 · December 24, 2014

Look like you're good to me.

§309. Color of clearance lamps, identification lamps, side marker lamps, backup lamps and reflectors

A. Front clearance lamps, identification lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color.

B. Rear clearance lamps, identification lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color.

C. All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light, which must be red, or other signal device, which may be red, amber or yellow, and except that the light illuminating the license plate shall be white and the light emitted by a backup lamp shall be white.

Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 292, §1.

Mike1220 · December 24, 2014

Look like you're good to me.

§309. Color of clearance lamps, identification lamps, side marker lamps, backup lamps and reflectors

A. Front clearance lamps, identification lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color.

B. Rear clearance lamps, identification lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color.

C. All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light, which must be red, or other signal device, which may be red, amber or yellow, and except that the light illuminating the license plate shall be white and the light emitted by a backup lamp shall be white.

Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 292, §1.

Thanks! I thought I was good but it's a much better feeling to know that I'm still in the clear (legally)

nunyazz · December 30, 2014

Love all your mod's especially all the lighting. What part of LA are you from?

I have a '14 SLT Irridium.

Mike1220 · December 30, 2014

Love all your mod's especially all the lighting. What part of LA are you from?

I have a '14 SLT Irridium.

Thanks! I just finished another one! haha

I'm from the Kenner/Metairie area, where are you from? I notice you are from Louisiana too

nunyazz · December 30, 2014

Thanks! I just finished another one! haha

I'm from the Kenner/Metairie area, where are you from? I notice you are from Louisiana too

Waiting for pics!! lol

I'm in the BTR area.

Mike1220 · December 30, 2014

Waiting for pics!! lol

I'm in the BTR area.

haha don't worry! I'll have some up soon enough when I finish cleaning outside and I have everything back together

Mike1220 · December 30, 2014

haha don't worry! I'll have some up soon enough when I finish cleaning outside and I have everything back together

Here's where I mounted the switch. I have a video showing everything still working but I didn't get to upload it to YouTube yet. I'm going to try to do it tonight so I can post a link here.

Oh and I partially debadged the tail gate. Doesn't look all that amazing right now but after a few more things it'll look a lot better

Mike1220 · December 30, 2014

All that remaining chrome has got to go! You're killing me Mike! Lol.

Sorry to see the injury to the truck. Hope they get it looking perfect.

Got a quote from a vinyl shop last night, the guy said that they should be able to match the bumpers pretty closely to the WDT body paint. He said it should only cost around $300-350 installed on both bumpers. Hopefully they are right! I may have them try to do the door handles in WDT or black as well.

JesusArTorres · December 30, 2014

Got a quote from a vinyl shop last night, the guy said that they should be able to match the bumpers pretty closely to the WDT body paint. He said it should only cost around $300-350 installed on both bumpers. Hopefully they are right! I may have them try to do the door handles in WDT or black as well.

You're getting the chrome bumpers color matched in vinyl?

Mike1220 · December 30, 2014

You're getting the chrome bumpers color matched in vinyl?

Yep! I'm not 110% sure that I want to have my bumpers color matched so I figured if I do vinyl wrap, at least that way I can remove it if I ever decide that I don't like it. Also it's cheaper than having them painted, especially since no shops around here will touch a chrome bumper.

Mike1220 · December 31, 2014

here's the link to my video! Show's the the VLEDs work just like factory intended them to and I can disable them with the in-cab switch

MThompsonjr115 · December 31, 2014

So how do you have these hooked up? I'm not sure I quite understand how you've got them working.

Also, are your LED strips at full brightness all the time?

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Mike1220 · December 31, 2014

So how do you have these hooked up? I'm not sure I quite understand how you've got them working.

Also, are your LED strips at full brightness all the time?

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Sadly no, they are not at full brightness all the time :/ if I could figure out how to make that happen, you could bet your a$$ I would make them full bright all the time. But till that time I'm at the mercy of the factory programming.

This should help clear up some of what is happening with the manual override system I now have for the amber lights in the headlight

As you can see, both the yellow (blinker) and the teal/green (running) wires have both been cut, well I didn't feel like looking it up to be honest as to which color meant what so I just snipped the first one I grabbed when I first did this and that ended up being the yellow (blinker) but obviously that didn't do what I wanted to achieve so I had to reconnect it.

But here's what happened:

With the teal/green wire (this carries power to one of the 2 filaments in the stock halogens and this wire carries the running light/constant on power to the ambers) being cut, there is now no power being brought to the ambers to act as running lights. And since that is not part of the blinker or brake system, it does not affect the hyperblink warning system, so this is how I don't have a hyperblink issue. With that wire cut I had no power going to constantly keep the ambers on, and so in a CMA (cover my A$$) situation and with the advice from Chris, I decided that putting in a switch to allow me to control the ambers seperate from all other running lights wouldn't be a bad idea. So that's what I did. I ran 2 wires from each headlight and met the 4 total wires (two with a live feed from the stock end, and 2 from that return power to the bulbs when the switch is turned on/when a connection is made, and I combined them down to 2 wires so that I didn't have to run 4 into the cab and into a switch. So now when I turn my switch on, I remake the connection between the severed ends of the teal wire, therefore allowing power to flow and ignite the lights as running lights

Hope this has cleared things up a bit. I didn't get to take pictures as my phone was dying and the cold started to set In by the time I was ready to start running all the wires so I started rushing a bit more so I could be done sooner and get out of the cold!

blackout07 · December 31, 2014

Got a quote from a vinyl shop last night, the guy said that they should be able to match the bumpers pretty closely to the WDT body paint. He said it should only cost around $300-350 installed on both bumpers. Hopefully they are right! I may have them try to do the door handles in WDT or black as well.

I vote for color matched door handles.

Mike1220 · December 31, 2014

I vote for color matched door handles.

Maybe. I'm getting the new tow mirrors cause I got a good deal on them last night[emoji3] so I'll see what I want to do with the mirrors and handles once I get the bumpers done and the mirrors installed.