2016 Taillights

henrypbui · February 4, 2016

Thank you. This is something we were thinking about. Just has to make sense. I will try to get some pics of my "hack job" to post for everyone.

When you bought the tail lights, did it come with the harness that plugs into the main rear junction box under the bed?

Arth · February 4, 2016

Fantastic.

Would love to see pictures of the hack job.

As I said before it would be a hack job unless you have the correct connector laying around and pinned it out, which you finally replied you did.

Thank you. This is something we were thinking about. Just has to make sense. I will try to get some pics of my "hack job" to post for everyone.

DCazares · February 4, 2016

Great work!

Liquidfx17 · February 4, 2016

When you bought the tail lights, did it come with the harness that plugs into the main rear junction box under the bed?

Yes it does come with the harness. The problem is. the harness on the LED tail light is square. Where as the plug under the bumper is more of an oval. So you cannot plug the new harness into the old obviously.

So we ended up testing each output of each wire from the harness already on my truck. Then we tested the output of each wire off the LED light. We ended up shortening the harness OFF the tailights themselves. Added a nice pinned connector. On the stock harness FROM the truck, we cut off all the OEM bulb harness's. And again repinned a nice connector to them. Then we just plugged them in.

We did wire in a resistor on the turn signal side of things as it does hyper flash and does give you a warning on the dash. That was again properly wired to our harness. There are no butt connectors, twisted wires on this. Everything is crimped, pinned, soldered(resistor wires).

We did notice that their was an extra red wire on the LED harness. When we looked at the schematic that was provided above, it appears its another ground wire. We determined that has to be something to possibly do with the new 2016 bcm module.Maybe another trigger for a warning or something? It however, does not seem to affect the function of the tail lights. My parking lights work, signals work, brake lights work, signal with brakes, lights flash properly when i lock/unlock the truck. Come on when the truck is remote started ect. Nothing seems to of been lost.

Liquidfx17 · February 6, 2016

Check out my hack job guys!

Wires in my hand here are the resistor. Hadn't mounted it at that time. It to has been "hacked" together with a proper connector.

Arth · February 6, 2016

Are you going to drill the "hacked" resistor into the bed or mount it on something?

Always was frustrated with how warm they got.

Liquidfx17 · February 6, 2016

It is mounted. There is a hole at the top behind the light on the frame. It is mounted inside that. Mounted to metal directly. Nothing touching any plastic. That "hacked" up good enough for you?

Far as I'm concerned, this is about as legit "OEM" install you can get.

Arth · February 6, 2016

Sure I guess it's "hacked" up enough for installing $950 worth of tail lights.

Nice install.

Liquidfx17 · February 6, 2016

You're special. Maybe that's what you'd pay. I however did not. Maybe you should leave your arrogant remarks until you know the finished product. Thanks. Move on

stereojnky · February 6, 2016

Looks great man. I don't understand where all the hate is coming from. On other forums people get encouragement for being the first to tackle something that no one has done yet.

Are you going to reveal your source or are you planning on modifying and selling these? I'm really interested in price more than anything. Every mod has a threshold.

ikaika1984 · February 6, 2016

Thank you. This is something we were thinking about. Just has to make sense. I will try to get some pics of my "hack job" to post for everyone.

Good job man. As a new truck owner I appreciate this site for all the visions that you guys bring..

Sent from my SG Note 4 on Tapatalk

Arth · February 6, 2016

I'm impressed this is bugging you so much. Grow up. You want to keep saying hacked up even in response to others so I continued to as well.

I even comment it was a nice install. Oh well.

I comment $950 because that is the cost for a set that work for GMC. Chevrolet may be cheaper.

You're special. Maybe that's what you'd pay. I however did not. Maybe you should leave your arrogant remarks until you know the finished product. Thanks. Move on

Liquidfx17 · February 6, 2016

Eh. Your just one of those guys. You pre judged, and you were wrong. I like quoting you for that mere fact. Don't judge something till you know the facts. And yes you are correct on that price. I'm fortunate enough to be in the after market performance parts industry. It helps even with OEM items.

Liquidfx17 · February 6, 2016

In response to your resistor mounting. I made a little bracket for it. I did not want it mounted to anything painted or plastic with how hot these things get! Took alittle finagling. But I think this will work great. Aluminum bracket so hopefully that'll help cool it quicker. All with stainless, locking hardware. Didn't need to drill any holes into the truck as there was a factory hole not in use.

Arth · February 6, 2016

You're absolutely right I was wrong! I even admitted that. I made my statement based on previous experience. You are the first exception to this being in the aftermarket performance industry.

On to the resistor. You nailed half of what I was curious about. As I said before I hate how hot they get and I see aluminum is the way to go.. have to remember that.

My other question is did you hard wire the resistors wire into your harness or are there plugs so that the tail light can still be unplugged from the truck should you ever need to do that?