Bumper Swap / Driving Lights

[Big R ED]

Recently purchased a 2019 Silverado LD Custom, in Red Hot.  I love the truck, but my eye sight requires better road illumination at night.  My front bumper is Red Hot steel, without sensors and without driving light cut outs.  I'm thinking of keeping an eye out for a used Red Hot OEM bumper with the factory cutout for the driving lights.  Two questions - 1) will I simply be able to bolt up the OEM bumper, and plug the OEM diving lights into an already existing plug/harness, that is currently just tucked away and unused because I don't have fog lights and 2) are there good aftermarket driving lights available that don't look "buba"?  The design of the front bumper only really has two recesses where they could be mounted, but those recesses are occupied by the tow hooks AND behind the grill looks undoable, since the automatic louvers that close at high speed come pretty close to the back side of the grill when open.  Thanks for your thoughts.

[tmo]

If you are referring to the factory fog light, then it will not be plug and play. You will need to mount a switch inside. Lots of info on adding fog lights if you search it. I don’t think anyone had been able to add them OEM wiring and all. I tried in my 15 and wasn’t able too. In my opinion the factory fog lights on the 2016-19s add great side and forward visibility, but only for roughly 30-50 feet in front of the truck. Most likely they won’t help with your visibility issues. If you need more, you may be better off upgrading to the LTZ headlights. They are LED and they will offer better light output than your HID.

 

And don’t take this the wrong way, but if you are having issues seeing with HID lights, you may need to go to the eye doctor or not be driving at night. Anything that you add that will act as a secondary headlight will blind traffic and that’s not fair for the motorists around you.

 

[Todd1982]

14 hours ago, tmo said:

If you are referring to the factory fog light, then it will not be plug and play. You will need to mount a switch inside. Lots of info on adding fog lights if you search it. I don’t think anyone had been able to add them OEM wiring and all. I tried in my 15 and wasn’t able too. In my opinion the factory fog lights on the 2016-19s add great side and forward visibility, but only for roughly 30-50 feet in front of the truck. Most likely they won’t help with your visibility issues. If you need more, you may be better off upgrading to the LTZ headlights. They are LED and they will offer better light output than your HID.

 

And don’t take this the wrong way, but if you are having issues seeing with HID lights, you may need to go to the eye doctor or not be driving at night. Anything that you add that will act as a secondary headlight will blind traffic and that’s not fair for the motorists around you.

 

The factory fogs are plug and play ...

 

only they require dealership to flash the bcm to enable them 

[tmo]

It’s not possible for the dealerships to flash the K2s BCM. I think the kit you are referring to is for the new body style T1s. Read through that article.

https://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/192852-install-factory-led-fog-lights-in-a-2016-gmc-1500/#comment-1877269

[Big R ED]

Thanks to both for the feedback on bumper - so mechanically, it will bolt up and electrically, I might be better served just  running a new power/control circuit.  So it will be bolt/wire and play.  Regarding the free WebMD consultation, I'll take it as a simple case of newbie hazing