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Light Mounting option for 17/18 Sierra?

moab11

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Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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When the available real estate to mount lights is limited, it becomes more important to install lights not only powerful, but with beams tuned for your needs.  “Super bright” may not mean they project down the road far enough for high speed driving. Some lights may flood the foreground but not illuminate much at 300 yards.  The smallest light with incredibly effective beams I’ve stumbled across is the Baja Designs  S2 Pro. https://www.bajadesigns.com/products/S2-Pro.asp   They are only 2400 lumens, but they put all the light to use.  They can be configured with wide or long range beams and colors.  I have 4 on my truck, 2 long range, and 2 wide flat beams. When I’m traveling the lonely highways, they light not only a wide swath to see if a deer is along the road, but also light the road a long way, which allows safer high speeds at night.

 

The Baja Designs website has some information on how to setup an effective light system  for your needs.  https://www.bajadesigns.com/Science-of-Lighting/Lighting-Zones.asp

https://www.bajadesigns.com/Science-of-Lighting/Isolux-Plots.asp

 

small enough?

 

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Tleesmith14 Enthusiast

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On 10/21/2017 at 6:08 PM, pdosescu said:

I just ordered it on amazon. The brand was autofeel or something like that. I wasn’t anything special but it was thin so I got it. I’m looking at getting a ADD or FabFours bumper and then I’ll get a Rigid


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Do you mind pulling up your Amazon account and referring us to the exact one you got? I'm very interested in this looks awesome on your truck.. don't want a bull bar since it will mess with my parking sensors 

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It’s an
Autofeel triple row 16” led light
216W , 21600LM
It’s sold by Autofeel. It doesn’t seem to be available now but I’ve seen it come and go.


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Tleesmith14 Enthusiast

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Well it can be done just a PIA also really not a great way to mount. this light bar measured 1.75" and is up against the motor for the shutters 

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Just installed the 30” light bar kit from Rough Country, my truck has/had “Active grill Shutters”. Yes you have to remove them. Had a buddy of mine who works at Chevy help me out, removed the motor from the shutters, and removed the shutters from the truck. Then mounted bar with the given brackets and ect from RC. Plugged everything back in, haven’t gotten a light yet. Will keep you guys updated. 

moab11 Enthusiast

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41 minutes ago, Josh Simon said:

Just installed the 30” light bar kit from Rough Country, my truck has/had “Active grill Shutters”. Yes you have to remove them. Had a buddy of mine who works at Chevy help me out, removed the motor from the shutters, and removed the shutters from the truck. Then mounted bar with the given brackets and ect from RC. Plugged everything back in, haven’t gotten a light yet. Will keep you guys updated. 

Did you leave the shutter motor plugged into the truck? Interested to see how you make out, I have read of others trying the same thing, but having trouble with CEL coming on.

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8 hours ago, Tleesmith14 said:

Well it can be done just a PIA also really not a great way to mount. this light bar measured 1.75" and is up against the motor for the shutters

Looks Great!!!

Any pictures of how you mounted the light bar? What light bar did you use?

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1 hour ago, moab11 said:

Did you leave the shutter motor plugged into the truck? Interested to see how you make out, I have read of others trying the same thing, but having trouble with CEL coming on.

Yes, I literally took the harness out of the shutter assembly and plugged it back in. Zip tied it in a “safe” location. Had a light at first, cleared it and haven’t gotten anything again yet. Most of these vehicles have a memory up to 20 minutes after ANY BCM movement. Even if you open the door. Which it recognized that it was unplugged so I had to clear the code 

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Better Video from the dash cam tonight.
 
 



Been thinking about getting the RC Bar as well, have you had any issues with the parking sensors? If so how did you fix it?


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Allterrain Enthusiast

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$165 for a bracket and two 3" pods?
 
 
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Definitely pricey for some metal with holes in it.


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$165 for a bracket and two 3" pods?
 
 
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I have been watching the Zroadz brackets for a while hoping someone will come out with a similar bracket to their hood hinge brackets. I suspect their astronomical cost on brackets is because they are the one of the only ones at the “party” per se when it comes to some of these unique mounting options.

That’s an expensive piece of bent metal...



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I have been watching the Zroadz brackets for a while hoping someone will come out with a similar bracket to their hood hinge brackets. I suspect their astronomical cost on brackets is because they are the one of the only ones at the “party” per se when it comes to some of these unique mounting options.

That’s an expensive piece of bent metal...




Hood hinge? the A- pillar brackets for spot lights?


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