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I installed some small LED pods in my bed and was planning on hooking them in to the cargo lights. Rather than having to poke and prod, I was wondering if anyone else has already done this and could tell me what the wire colors were.
Well it finally got cool enough around here to be able to be outside in a black truck long enough to get this done and not die of heat stroke.
I bought these motorcycle pod LED's off eBay:
Motorcycle pod LED's
I put them in first, just attaching to them to my BakFlip rails with the 3M tape and little aluminum brackets that they came with. Then wired them all together(reds to reds, blacks to blacks to put them all in parallel):
They are here(two more towards the tailgate that aren't in camera view:
I then ran the wires out the plastic bed cap where you are supposed to run the drain for the BakFlip:
Then dropped them straight into the frame, unable to get a good picture of that, you can see it in the crack between the bed and the cab.
I then fished the wires through the frame then back out of the top of the frame and over to the grommet(also used for the tailgate lock):
Then ran them along the wiring harness to the front passenger kick panel, red line is supposed to show the path of the wires:
Once at the kick panel the dome light wire is real easy to find. It is the grey with violet stripe wire in a big green plug:
Tye it in how you like, I just stripped my wire and stuffed it into the plug and ziptied it to hold it in there.
I could never find the elusive solid violet that was supposed to be the cargo light wire. Schematics show it going to the BCM also, 12Volt said it was in a 26 pin grey plug, never found either. However, the dome wire does what I want it to seeing how Ford doesn't really segregate the dome/cargo circuit. <Rant> This doesn't make sense to me, when it is dark outside, why the hell would you want the dome light coming on when you want to check your cargo, it just makes it too bright inside to see outside. <end Rant>
I wired the ground to the big cluster of yellow and black wires behind the fuse panel, you can put a ground where ever you like I just prefer not to create any ground loops.
I installed some small LED pods in my bed and was planning on hooking them in to the cargo lights. Rather than having to poke and prod, I was wondering if anyone else has already done this and could tell me what the wire colors were.
Well it finally got cool enough around here to be able to be outside in a black truck long enough to get this done and not die of heat stroke.
I bought these motorcycle pod LED's off eBay:
Motorcycle pod LED's
I put them in first, just attaching to them to my BakFlip rails with the 3M tape and little aluminum brackets that they came with. Then wired them all together(reds to reds, blacks to blacks to put them all in parallel):
They are here(two more towards the tailgate that aren't in camera view:
I then ran the wires out the plastic bed cap where you are supposed to run the drain for the BakFlip:
Then dropped them straight into the frame, unable to get a good picture of that, you can see it in the crack between the bed and the cab.
I then fished the wires through the frame then back out of the top of the frame and over to the grommet(also used for the tailgate lock):
Then ran them along the wiring harness to the front passenger kick panel, red line is supposed to show the path of the wires:
Once at the kick panel the dome light wire is real easy to find. It is the grey with violet stripe wire in a big green plug:
Tye it in how you like, I just stripped my wire and stuffed it into the plug and ziptied it to hold it in there.
I could never find the elusive solid violet that was supposed to be the cargo light wire. Schematics show it going to the BCM also, 12Volt said it was in a 26 pin grey plug, never found either. However, the dome wire does what I want it to seeing how Ford doesn't really segregate the dome/cargo circuit. <Rant> This doesn't make sense to me, when it is dark outside, why the hell would you want the dome light coming on when you want to check your cargo, it just makes it too bright inside to see outside. <end Rant>
I wired the ground to the big cluster of yellow and black wires behind the fuse panel, you can put a ground where ever you like I just prefer not to create any ground loops.
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When you turn your cargo lights on I would imagine that you would want the bed lights to come on with it. That's why it makes the most amount of sense to tap into the cargo light.
