Merideth: So, if you're completely over your factory headlights and want
a unique look for your Jeep and better lighting performance at the same time,
these Axial 7-inch LED Headlights with the DRL Signal Functions, Black Housing and a Clear Lens,
will be a great addition to your 1997 to 2018 TJ or JK Wrangler. Now, these will offer a
split design, with an amber light bar in the center, for a standout look for the front of
your Jeep that will modernize the appearance compared to the plain factory headlights.
These will also be a great addition if your headlights are starting to show some wear and you
want an upgraded replacement, to not only refresh the housing, but also to get some better lighting
performance with the LED construction. These will also just downright outperform the factory lights,
with not only the LEDs, but also the additional daytime running light and signal features, making
you a lot more noticeable when driving around on the street, for safety, and, of course, style.
These headlights will feature a black housing and a clear polycarbonate lens,
offering a stealthy look, while being durable and able to withstand any lighter hits from
kick-up on the street, or even branches on the trail. Now, speaking of durability,
this set will come with an IP67 water and dust-proof rating, for optimal protection
to your LEDs inside. Now, these will also include the high-intensity white Cree LEDs,
which will increase the light output compared to your factory ones, create a more uniform
beam pattern, for better visibility, and, again, offering a modernized appearance.
Not to mention these will include an amber DRL light bar right in the center, as you can see,
that will offer turn signal capabilities, again, keeping you a lot more noticeable when driving.
These will also be DOT and SAE certified, for a little bit of peace of mind there. Now, when it
comes to price, these are going to be relatively affordable, at around $150 for the set. Now,
compared to other choices, I like that this will include a non-traditional approach to the DRL,
compared to the very popular halo style, and also offer the additional turn signal
functions. Not to mention, it keeps it pretty timeless, with the reflector-style look,
while still upgrading to LEDs at the same time. Now, other options on the
page may be styled a bit differently. You may have a different bulb type, like an HID,
or may have color-changing features, or even projector lenses on the inside of the headlight.
Now, I think if you don't necessarily need that, you're just looking for a good-looking light that
will offer you the visibility that you need, at a good price, then these are a great pick. Now,
install will be a pretty easy one out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter, taking you
about an hour to get these installed with some basic hand tools. I would like to mention there
is a little bit of wiring involved, however, it is very straightforward, so I'm gonna keep it at a
one out of three wrenches. And, at this point, we can head over to the shop and check out a detailed
breakdown of the install. So, that's gonna wrap it up for me. Let's go ahead and get into it.
Male Speaker: For this install, we're going to be using a trim removal tool,
a wire stripper and crimp connector crimper tool,
a Phillips head screwdriver, a pair of wire cutters, and four crimp connectors.
All right. So, today we're gonna be installing a set of LED headlights on a 2014 Jeep Wrangler.
Okay. So, our first step is we're gonna remove the front grille. And to do that, we're gonna remove
six push clips with our trim removal tool. So, we're gonna slide the trim removal tool
underneath, kind of wiggle, pry up, and careful not to bend the head or rip the head off. Once
they're up, should be able to pull it out just like that. Do these guys all across the top. At
times, they might come apart in two pieces. Just
use that trim removal tool and pull the second half out too.
Sometimes you might have to come at them at a different angle.
And the last one down here.
Okay. So, now that we have those push clips out of the top of this grille,
we can grab it firmly from the bottom, give it a nice pull, and these retention clips are gonna pop
out of the rad support. Just like that. Don't walk away with it, because there's plugs connected to
these lights we're gonna have to take off. Now we can get access to the turn signal,
here behind the grille. There's this clip here. We're gonna push this back. This is a lock. So,
once that's pushed back, we can push the tab down at the end, and pull it
right off. And then we're gonna go ahead and repeat this exact process on the other side.
Now that we have access to these four screws holding the trim ring over the headlight,
we can take our Phillips head screwdriver and go ahead and pull them out. There's
two.
Drop that.
Third one is underneath here. Make sure you're holding the headlight, because it'll fall out
once you have these screws out here.
Okay. Now we can go ahead and...that guy's hanging in there.
Go ahead and remove the trim ring.
Headlight should be able to come out of its socket. And we have a plug back here,
the same style, with that red safety clip. Push it back. Push the tab down. Should be able to pull it
right off the headlight. And then we'll go ahead and repeat the exact process on the other side.
So, now we're ready to install the new headlights. And the installation is gonna be reverse of the
removal, except for the fact that we're going to have to wire in the running lights. So,
we can go ahead and plug these into the back of the harness, and plug the adapter harness in to
the back of the headlight harness, and then plug it into the car and mount the headlight up. Now
we're gonna put the included extension wires onto the back of the headlight harness. So,
we're gonna put respective yellow to yellow, and red to red. They should slide on, just like that.
There's the yellow. Take the red, do the same.
Now we're gonna take these two long extensions, fish them through the
headlight socket. Now that we have our wire extensions installed, we're gonna fish them
through the headlight socket and down to the turn signal area.
Like that. And then we can take our headlight harness extension.
It's an adapter so you can use these headlights with the factory headlight plug. Slide that in.
Now we can go ahead and plug it into the green factory headlight connector.
Slide it in like that, and then we'll push the red safety clip down.
So, now what we're gonna go ahead and do is push our wiring back into the headlight socket, and
we're gonna put our headlight into the headlight socket. Now, there are these alignment tabs
in the socket here, that correspond to the headlight, and you know your headlight's in
the right position when the text that's embossed onto the lens is right side up.
So, we're gonna go ahead and drop it in, line up our tabs here, just like that.
Snug in there, and then we can put the trim ring on.
Bring it this way as well.
Should fit pretty snug. We'd have to work it in a little bit. Like that.
Line it up with the holes.
Like that.
Everything lined up, and we can put our Phillips head screws back in.
Then we can put the other two screws in on the other side.
So, now that our headlight is secure, we can move on to wiring.
So, now we're ready to do some wiring. I went ahead and cut the two white wires and trimmed
the ends, so we have some copper exposed, and I trimmed our yellow and red harness
extension wires from the plug on the light, down to length, and trimmed the ends of the
plastic coating off them as well. So, our first step is we're gonna identify the wire.
It's white with a red stripe, on the passenger side. They are different colors on the driver's
side as well. But on the passenger side here, we're going red and white for the yellow
turn signal wire. I'm gonna go ahead and wrap the body harness side with the yellow wire,
just like that, so we can get a good connection between the two. And take a crimp connector,
slide it in. Like that. We're gonna crimp it down. Now
we're gonna make sure
we're getting the white and red wire from the turn signal plug side.
We're gonna slide that into the other end. Crimper on first, just like that.
Triple check you're putting the right wire in.
Okay. That's the turn signal. And now, we're on to the red wire, the driving light.
We're gonna do the same thing. The brown and white wire. Gonna wrap them together.
Slide a crimp connector over those two.
Like that. Crimp them down.
Grab the white and brown wire from the plug side. Slide it in. Put my crimper on first.
Like that. And
crimp. So, now we have our LED headlight wired in to the turn signal plug. So,
we can go ahead and move on to the other side, and then install the grille. Now we can
go ahead and repeat this process on the other side, and then we can put the grille back on,
plug our turn signal bulb back in, and we're good to go.
So, now we can go ahead and plug our turn signal bulb back in. We're gonna put this
plug on and push real tight until it clips, then push our safety back in. And you can
go ahead and repeat this process on the other side. Then, to install the grille, what we're
gonna do is go ahead and set it onto its home up top. Line up those push clips in the bottom,
and just push it right back into place like that. You'll hear it snap in. And then what we can do is
just put our push clips back in. Go ahead and pop that in the hole. Push the head down. Same here.
Like that.
And that's it. We just installed the Axial 7-inch LED Headlights,
with Driving Lights and Signal Function, with the Black Housings and Clear Lenses,
for a 1997 to 2018 Jeep Wrangler TJ and JK. For these products and lots of other videos
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