New LED Cargo light mod for bed with tonneau cover
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04-29-2012, 08:16 PM
New LED Cargo light mod for bed with tonneau cover
So, I had to do something for cargo lights after installing the Peragon hard tonneau because I couldn't see underneath at night.
The Mopar bedlights are WAAAAY overpriced. I know the 2009+ ones are like $380?WTF?
So, I went and purchased a 5m roll of LED's in the Cool White color. These are the brightest LED you can get. About 3x's the brightness of standard smd's. These lights are BRIGHT!
The roll that I purchased came with 3m tape on ther backside for a peel and stick application.
I put a 5A inline fuse next to the battery and ran that to a push button switch by the tailgate. I didn't want to tap into my cargo lights because I unload/load the bed sometimes when the truck is locked up.
Enough crap, here's the pics.
Here's the switch stuck to the L-bracket for the cover. Notice I bought the BLACK faced LED strips as alot of them are white. I taped the wires up underneath with Gorilla Tape. It'll hold, cuz it'll be dry under there. I ran the power wire into the stake pocket and down below(just as the Mopar light directions show) and along the frame to the battery.
Daytime
Nighttime
With what I have left over ~6ft, I'm going to put 5ft under the hood since I have no courtesy light under there(thanks dodge for the cheap *** design on my $38k truck), and I'll use the remaining 1ft inside the cab in various places because you can cut 3LEDs off for multiple options.
The Mopar bedlights are WAAAAY overpriced. I know the 2009+ ones are like $380?WTF?
So, I went and purchased a 5m roll of LED's in the Cool White color. These are the brightest LED you can get. About 3x's the brightness of standard smd's. These lights are BRIGHT!
The roll that I purchased came with 3m tape on ther backside for a peel and stick application.
I put a 5A inline fuse next to the battery and ran that to a push button switch by the tailgate. I didn't want to tap into my cargo lights because I unload/load the bed sometimes when the truck is locked up.
Enough crap, here's the pics.
Here's the switch stuck to the L-bracket for the cover. Notice I bought the BLACK faced LED strips as alot of them are white. I taped the wires up underneath with Gorilla Tape. It'll hold, cuz it'll be dry under there. I ran the power wire into the stake pocket and down below(just as the Mopar light directions show) and along the frame to the battery.
Daytime
Nighttime
With what I have left over ~6ft, I'm going to put 5ft under the hood since I have no courtesy light under there(thanks dodge for the cheap *** design on my $38k truck), and I'll use the remaining 1ft inside the cab in various places because you can cut 3LEDs off for multiple options.
Last edited by dirtydog; 06-02-2012 at 10:56 PM.
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