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Willshire Enthusiast

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Double tap the brake lights or let him pass. Or enjoy the extra mood lighting he so eloquently projected into your cabin

kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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My mirrors dim... on my 2006... I've thought about how fun it could be to try and grab a tailgater with the balebed before, honestly.

 

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Thinking about mounting other light bar to the swing case. If you absolutely need a rear facing led, you can even direct the beam. Thoughts of installing it here?

 

 

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jeffenicks New Member

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Living in the rural area I always had good luck with floods on the rear, and had trapezoid's in the front of my truck. And they were just old tractors field lights.

 

 

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Thinking about mounting other light bar to the swing case. If you absolutely need a rear facing led, you can even direct the beam. Thoughts of installing it here?

As a work light? Not a bad idea. I would go for a 2x2 LED just for a smaller profile. You'll be blinded if you ever need to work on something on your tailgate lol. Would be hard to remove the swing case as well. Maybe some quick-disconnects on the body side?

Mack207 Enthusiast

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I would bet using it the way you want is very illegal.

It is. So is running HID's in a non-HID housing, and people do it all the time. I think this is even more dangerous as its blinding oncoming traffic.

 

I'm by no means justifying using rear-facing LED's though.

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Imcrazy Senior Enthusiast

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Just pull over and let 'em on by..... I hate tailgaters.... I just slow down realllllllllly slow and let 'em pass me.

Alex Hardy Enthusiast

Alex Hardy

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Where did you get those switches? I'm interested in any more pics you have to. That being said I have almost the exact same lights mounted in the same spot. Mine were from Eyourlife on amazon, I think around $25 shipped. I use for backing at night, cheap and effective. I supposed I could flash them if I wanted to for the same reason as the op stated.

sealteem1 Enthusiast

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I created custom grommets to angle the lights straight back instead of to the ground.

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