Hello fellow Dakota owners. I own a 05 SLT 4x4 crew and I am looking to add a 18" LED light bar behind the grille mounted on the crossmember that runs in front of the radiator. I would like to wire it so it turns on when my high beams are enabled. I know all the hardware I need to get to make this happen, but my question is about the proper location to tap into some type of feed to let the light bar know when the high beams are enabled. Most people I see use a fuse add-a-circuit in the high beam fuse location but from what I can tell our vehicles do not have a dedicated fuse just for the high beam. Has anyone done anything like this before? If its not easily done I will wire it up with the standard on/off switch, but I wanted to see if anyone might know how to safely tap into a high beam feed. Thanks.

 

If I'm not mistaken, it isn't possible to tie into the high beam system because our lights go through the Can Bus. The change in the voltage reading would be miss read by the Can Bus, causing a failure. It might be better to tie into the fog light system and more legal.