How's everybody doing and welcome to another episode of what's going on at
Wicked Warnings. As you can see right here, we've got a fresh-y fresh 2020 Ford
Transit 150 van and what this is is it's Ford's half-ton series van, the 150
series. The low roof, the not so long regular size van. Again, the Transit 150.
What we are featuring here in the front grille is a synchronized set of our
Razor LED. As I turn down the ISO, you can get an idea of what I mean by
synchronized as far as the colors. We put them together. That way, when you get far
away from the vehicle, it'll actually blend into one big color pop. This
particular van is for a service company that often is unloading or loading parts
and supplies on the side of the road or in alleys as they service residential
and commercial. You can see here, we're also featuring our TIR-3 and that's
mounted right there in that triangle sail panel in front of the side view
mirror. It's a very easy mounting location. You can get the wiring right
through the fender to underneath the hood and this particular van has an easy
solution to go from under the hood into the van as well. Very easy to drill the
firewall on this one or slice through the factory grommet. A lot of room, no
complications there. As far as how we mounted those Razors, we were using our
VHB high-strength tape with the Primer 94. I suggest if you're going to use the
VHB, definitely use that Primer 94 and clean everything very thoroughly and
then what we also suggest is to put a little bead of RTV silicone around the VHB
tape, as well as a couple little beads in the center and that way, it'll help dry
and secure that light. Here you can see how we've mounted those and at that
particular portion of the grille, you can drill straight through both layers of
plastic and you will end up with the wiring coming out right under the hood.
This particular grille is a bit of a chore to remove. You got to pull the
whole front bumper fascia most of the way off. So by doing these lights
in this location with the VHB, you're able to not remove the entire front of
the vehicle and if you wish, you can put a quick-connect on the other side of
those lights. So if you ever did need to remove the front fascia, you could simply
unplug the lights and do so. Here you can see we pull back a little bit of where
we mounted those. I like it. It's nice and high right up in the front. Works very
well. Here on the sail panel, you can see there where we mounted our TIR-3. It is
on a slight angle compared to the sail panel. That's to keep it level for the
light projection. If you match the bottom of the sail panel, the actual light will
be on a downward angle. So you need to mount it up a little bit in the front to
keep that light nice and level. As you can kind of see here what I was
talking about. Around the back of the van, we're featuring our ECO HAW. Either our
ECO or our HAW DUO will work and you can choose either low dome or high dome.
These particular taillights are very forgiving and there's quite a lot of
room. So pretty much any hideaway that you choose will work. As you can see here,
we've synchronized a set of our ECO HAW in amber and white, very similar to the
front. It's on a fast double flash pattern with a little bit of hang time
and that gives you a nice white flash and a nice amber flash on both sides. A
little bit calmer than the average. Put the ISO back up to normal. That's a very
easy install, rubber grommets right behind the taillights. Cargo vans, very
easy to run the wiring, so nothing to be intimidated about at all for this
product. If you're doing a DIY, this is a very very easy one to tackle. As I said
there, we're using the low dome ECO HAW on this particular model but any of our
hideaways will work and you can see there where the mounting is. We've
elected to put the clear white hideaway up on the top because it casts mostly
down and it reduces the brightness just slightly. We put the amber hideaway down
on the bottom because it casts mostly up and that will actually increase the
brightness a little bit for the eye of the people walking around.
So we chose amber on the bottom and white on the top. This vehicle was also
not equipped with factory hitch. So while it was here at Wicked Warnings, we
supplied the factory style 2-inch receiving hitch, as well as the seven pin
and a four pin plug, just like the factory which you can see here. Four pin
on the right and seven pin on the left. That way, this particular customer can
haul any trailer in his fleet. We also supplied a trailer brake controller.
Now I don't know if you've had an experience in the 2020 Transits or not but there's
not a whole lot of lower dash real estate, as you can see. I didn't want to hang
that controller down here or anywhere underneath there. Has some pretty steep
angles. There's nowhere over here really to put
it. I did not like trying to put it in that pocket.
I wanted the driver to easily be able to access it if they needed to grab a
little extra trailer brake, so this is the mounting that we went with. We chose
a Draw-Tite unit. A very nice, simple, easy unit to operate and that way, if the
driver does need to grab a little bit of trailer brake, as you can see, no
connection right now but it's right here. It's nice and level.
It's right in front of him and he can easily see and make sure everything's
working appropriately and as you know, trailer brake controllers sometimes fail.
So if there is an issue at all with the controller, he can simply unplug it
right here and replace it and we just ran that wiring, as you can see, right
down through a grommet to underneath the dashboard there. Keep it nice and clean
right behind the cup holder and then as we pan out, this is the driver view of
what we're working with. So as always, check links of all of my products in the
description. I'm not going to put in the links to everything but I will try to
put in links to everything that we used. So check the description. You may not be
able to order everything off WickedWarnings.com. I might send in some
affiliate links for this trailer equipment just because we don't
distribute a lot of trailer equipment. So I'll set you up with where you need to
buy it. Thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. As you can see down here, I
didn't mention, there's our activation switch. A nice
blue LED right next to the headlights. Easy to see while you're driving. Just
does the strobe lights. I might put a label on it. I'm just not quite sure.
Looks pretty good without it. So that's a very easy spot to drill a switch. You
just simply remove the headlight switch, it pops forward, and then you can drill
your 3/4 inch hole and you can run your wiring. So if you're confused and looking
for a spot to put a switch on the Transit van, the 2020 model, this is what
we did and I hope it helps you. Thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. We're
your number one source for construction and emergency safety strobe lighting and
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