Ambient Lighting - Pre Order

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chumpchange10

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Andy,
Just ordered the cupholder (Blue w/SVT logo) from your site....
When will you have the Vent Kit/lighte available..?
 
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Andy,
Just ordered the cupholder (Blue w/SVT logo) from your site....
When will you have the Vent Kit/lighte available..?

are you referring to grill lights or SVT vent lights?

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Will you be doing this is in white?

white is available just put that you want white in the notes when ordering.
 
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Hope this helps, I only have a Raptor center console on hand so I'm a bit limited on some pictures. If someone else could help fill in the gaps I'd greatly appreciate it.



Ford Raptor Ambient light cup holder Install.

First you’ll need to put truck in acc mode and pull the shifter back to the farthest position, make sure the brake is on. Pop the cover off, the whole center console cover just pulls right up. You’ll notice that the cup holder comes with the whole set up. You can pull this apart from cover just by pulling out on it.

Now that you have this done you’ll need to decide where to drill the hole for running wires. I chose a mid point where the rubber cup holders will hide the wire flowing downwards and minimal will be seen. **NOTE THE LIGHT IS DESIGNED TO GO ON DRIVERS SIDE AND FACE TOWARDS PASSENGER SIDE SO MAKE SURE TO DRILL ON DRIVER SIDE**
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After drilling hole and running wire give your self a little bit of room and put one of the rubber cup holders in and set your light where you like it, once done remove super sticky tape backing and set light permanently.
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Once you have done this take any slack out of wire and set the other cup holder in place
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Now the hard part is done. You can test the light with a 9V battery or 12V power source.

You'll now to need to tap power from the shift light indicator. This should be pretty simple as you already have the center console section out and can follow the wire back to the passenger side harness to see the best place to tap. I didn't get pictures of this the other day but the blue wire was the power wire (red) and black was negative (black). I include 3m fold over vampire style connectors to tap inline wires.

Once you have tapped the wires you can test to make sure everything works but turning on the vehicle ** MAKE SURE YOU PUT TRUCK BACK IN PARK** You'll also need to turn on the head lights as this circuit is only active when the head lights are on.

Now the light should be working and now you can set the cup holder in its slot and snap the console back together.

The last part will be putting the illuminated cup holder plate in place (this can be removed along with rubber cup holders for easy cleaning with out removing the light)
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This is a bench test but should give you an idea of what the light and plate look like.

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I found a dark spot to give folks a better idea of what the cup holders will look like at night and also added another stock logo with the RAPTOR logo being available. I also took a picture of what the foot well strips look like. I have to solder and heat shrink etc... myself there will be a bit of time on all of this as I don't out source anything.


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For tapping in wires on cup holder light, which do I use? The shifter wires on the passenger side have multiple blue wires


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Okay figured it out. so, when sitting in the passenger seat look at the shifter with the center console off. There is a blue wire and a black wire towards the REAR of the shifter - this is the one you want to tap, no the forward one. It is the thicker of the the two blue wires.

oh yeah, you might want to shave the left edge of both rubber cup inserts so that you can get them by the LED strip without tearing it off. Here is what mine looks like installed:

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