Hi everybody and thank you for watching. This is George here, your number one
source at Wicked Warnings for vehicle warning lights, LED strobe warning lights,
truck strobe lights kits and emergency strobe lights for cars, SUVs, trucks, vans,
buses, cabs, and soccer-mom minivans. What we've got here is a brand-new 2019 Ford Escape
for our friends over at Thomas Engineering. It's been a while since I've
showed you all those door badges that we do for Thomas. Oh my God! Does it light up?
No, it's just reflective vinyl people. Come on. It doesn't light up and go off
and then light up like that. That would be crazy. This is just reflective vinyl, we
can get it for anybody but it does look awesome when you shed a little light on
it. Now back to the warning package, the construction warning equipment that this
vehicle needs to go on and off of working road sites here in Illinois,
is an amber and/or amber-white package, 360 visibility. We are able to skirt the side
visibility just a little bit because our local DOT here, isn't extremely picky
about roof lights. So we've got a good forward-backward visibility. This serves
our need here. What we've got on the front grille is our LIN-6. Make sure you
check the description of this video. Down in the read more part, there'll be a link
to the LIN-6's. There'll be a link to the rear Wicked Slick Stick bar we have
mounted in the back hatch and there'll also be a link to buy everything you
need to do exactly this job, the wire, the switch, the lights, everything you need
except the time and the vehicle.
I know you guys like them
squirrel shot, so here you go up close and personal with LIN-6. You can see
how we mounted it in the top of the grille there. Now that I've turned that
off, you can see here, we did drill a slight hole for the wire. You could
probably finagle the wire through one of those
rectangular cutouts but we chose to just drill a little hole. You really don't see
it afterwards. We mounted our LIN-6 on the upper left and right corners. You can
see right there, we're using the provided stainless steel self tapping screws and
we just drilled a 3/8 hole and the wiring comes out underneath the hood
very easily and then you can go right over to the battery and as you can see, as I back
up just a little bit, the LIN-6 is set on an alternating triple flash. That
keeps both lights illuminated on the front of this vehicle, as well as giving
a little bit of movement. You can also set these lights to fully illuminate and
alternate left-to-right if you prefer. Many of my jobs are done that way as
well but since the front is relatively danger free for this particular client
and a lot of times the workers are in front, we chose to just alternate the
light itself on a split pattern. Keep the movement and keep both sides illuminated
instead of going dark-to-light on each side and alternating the entire light
back and forth. On low danger warning around the front of the car, I like to do this
kind of pattern sometimes. Especially if there's workers around because it's not
as bright and offensive to the workers who have to turn around and look at it
when they're going back to the car or might be working in front of the vehicle. If it
was a high danger situation, I would have absolutely alternated the full intensity
on each side and not split the light but since this is not high danger in the
front of this, I can split that pattern up and give them the movement on each
side and keep both lights illuminated and flashing and moving. Let me show you
what we did around back of it. Out back for this vehicle, as I mentioned, we went with
our all-new Wicked Warnings Slick Stick LED stick. This is a nice new product. It
is an LED stick available in two, four, six, eight or ten heads. So we have every
length you can need. It is a true dual stick, meaning every segment, as you can
see, will go white and amber the entire light will
light amber, the entire light will light white or any combination thereof.
It has amber patterns, white patterns, mixed patterns and we also have our
flood feature. This build did not utilize that but this Wicked Slick Stick does
have the steady white flood feature. Here you can see it punching right through
that factory tint. We have a very good off-axis lens on this stick. You get
great light coverage, almost out to 180-degrees with the optics that we chose
for our new stick. This is an extremely effective light array that's on our new
Slick Stick. There's directly behind it and as you
can see, factory tint doesn't even bother it. There's the camera without being
darkened. I can darken the camera a little for you. Show you some color. I
can put the camera back to automatic, which is pretty much blinding.
We mounted this light up on the hatch. That way, it's out of the way for cargo and it just is
the easier way to mount for this particular client. They don't need to
have the light displayed if the hatch is open. If you are in a high danger
situation where your hatch is open an awful lot, you might want to mount it
inside here on the headliner but since this vehicle, the hatch will almost
always be down, we did not need to do that. If you're going to use the screws
to mount it just like I did, you'll need a two inch screw because there is a void
underneath that plastic, that you'll have to have enough meat in the threads to
get your your anchor in there and I would not suggest drilling any higher
towards the glass than the screws I show right here or you might risk accidentally
hitting the edge of that glass and breaking it. What we did with our wire,
was we tucked it in right here. We also put a pattern switch there, if
you can see it tucked in and we did that because this is a leased vehicle. This
client is rather specific on trying to eliminate the damage. So instead of
spending extra labor and going through these factory boots, which you could have
done, this client is okay with lowering the cost of their install and running
the wires simply right through here and when you close it, it coils up and looks
very nice and keeps the cost much easier for this client because we don't need to
take apart the headliner and all of that and run it all in there.
As you can see inside of here, we do have a little bit of flashback but for this particular
vehicle, it's not going to be a problem and we've trained that wire to kind of
coil up there like that. So it's very clean, very simple, very friendly easy
install to do. Now here is your brake and gas pedal and I'm sure you all are gonna
be wondering "well how the hell you get that wiring underneath the hood?" and
that'll be through here. You can get your wiring all from there. It'll come out
right underneath the hood, that is to the left of the brake pedal. You can see
there's a spot right there and what we did, is put our switch right up here on
the top and as you can see, we get a nice reflection onto the fuel gauge when the
lights are on and we've done this, we've done this a few times with this
particular client because they requested to have kind of an
illumination right in their face. So I put the switch there and it's very easy
to tell. Even if the parking lights are on, you can still see that blue
illumination right there, that goes off. So you can tell right when your switches
are on, when your lights are running and then it keeps it very discreet looking
inside the car because there's not really anywhere here to drill a hole.
This is padded, so you're gonna have a little issue here and I guess we could
have probably went somewhere around here into the dash area or somewhere down
into here but this is all expensive stuff and easy to notice a switch.
This little trim panel comes right out here. Rather cheap to replace when we
turn in the lease, so we can pop that panel out, order a new one and then not
have any visible evidence of ever having an install done on this vehicle. So I
just wanted to go ahead and take a minute to note that mileage. You can see
it right there. Well now everything's turning on for me. Oh that won't show up at all. It says 164.
So we like to see them brand-new. That's definitely what we love.
Well he kind of takes focus there for a minute. I need a better camera. Post up some
recommendations for a better camera. Thanks guys for watching. This is George at
Wicked Warnings. It was a rather long video but it's a brand-new Escape and I
think that this will give you all some stuff to work with. I wanted to make
another note. Previous video of an Escape I did, this lens was white. I believe
that's the 2018 Escape. On this one, this lens is now red and this lens here is
not easy to put a hideaway in. The reason we didn't do hideaways on this, one was
budget and 2 was this lens is not very easy. So if you've got some trick I don't
know for the 2019 Escape hideaways right in there, go ahead and shoot it to
me. If not, thanks for watching. Be sure to subscribe, like, share this media and I do
apologize for a 10 minute video if you're still hanging with me at this
point, thank you very much, I appreciate it.
See you on the next video. This is George at Wicked Warnings coming to you
live with the new Slick Stick and LIN-6.