Well, guys, if you want some of the coolest tail lights available for your 2010 to 2012
Mustang, I think you found them.
Full disclosure, these are honestly my favorite tail lights ever put on a Mustang, save for
the classics, and I actually have a pair of these Vector lights on my own GT.
In my opinion, I think these represent the proper tri-bar tail lights, and I think these
really capture what those original '65 to '71 Mustangs came with.
There's also no better way to put it, I personally think that these are what the S197 should
have come with from the factory when Ford decided to resurrect the retro style from
those past decades.
Install is very easy, these are pre-wired and they are sequential out of the box.
So install gets a simple one out of three wrenches on my patented difficulty meter,
and I don't think it should take you more than 30 minutes to get the install done with
just basic hand tools.
Now, first thing's first.
These are LED tail lights and they are officially modeled off of the S550's factory tail lights.
These feature these nice recessed diffusers which gives off a very cool three dimensional
sort of look, and the housings for each of the lights is made from OEM quality materials,
so fit and finish will look like original equipment once you install them.
Now, as you can see on the back here the wiring harness and the bolts are designed to fit
with your factory setup, so all you have to do is unplug your old light, spin a couple
of nuts off of those bolts, and plug these back in their place.
At $500, I think that these are priced rather well.
The LEDs in these lights will easily last around 100,000 hours, and keep in mind you
are getting that sequential setup as well.
Sure there are less expensive options that you could pick from, but those options I guarantee
are gonna be a lot more simple, they're gonna be two dimensional, or they're honestly just
gonna be factory replacements.
And again, keep in mind you're not getting this kind of cool design and quality that
favors that retro look and the S550 look.
Now, install is, again, plug and play with a couple of bolts and that wiring harness,
so I'm giving this install one out of three wrenches on my difficulty meter.
Without further ado let's head over to the garage, I'm actually gonna show you guys how
to get these plugged in using our own 2011 GT.
All right, so pulled our '11 GT into our garage bay here.
I'm gonna show you how to install your Vector tail lights.
Like I said, very simple bolt-on job here.
All you gotta do is unplug factory wiring harness and remove a couple of nuts off the
factory light studs.
So let's pop our trunk and get started.
All right, so we got our trunk open.
Before we remove our factory tail lights we have to remove this plastic trim piece here.
To do that you're gonna remove two plastic push pins here, one on this side, one on the
driver side.
Use a flat head screwdriver, make it easy on ya.
Now with those two plastic push pins removed we can pull our our trim piece, that's gonna
expose the studs, nuts, and wiring harness on our factory tail lights.
All right, so now we can start removing our factory tail lights.
Like I said, there's three studs with three nuts on them, one here, one down here, and
one back here, you have to peel your carpet away.
You're gonna need an 11 millimeter socket for that, but before you remove those nuts
we're gonna disconnect the wiring harness for the tail light itself.
All right, now we can remove our factory tail lights from the vehicle.
When you pull them out be very careful you don't wanna scratch your paint and just keep
in mind the threads on the studs can catch on the holes in the body, so you just wanna
kind of wiggle it around.
Lastly, when you pull the wiring harness out there is a rubber grommet sealing it inside
of that hole, just make sure you push the rubber grommet through as you're pulling the
light out of the vehicle.
All right, with our factory tail lights removed we can install our new Vector tail lights.
Like I said earlier, these bolt up the same way the factory ones came off, and that is
the same with the wiring harness.
So you're gonna go ahead line up all the studs, push the light in, make sure you push that
rubber grommet through that same wiring harness hole so it's nice and seated.
All right, with our new Vector tail light is nice and seated, we're gonna go ahead and
plug in our wiring harness and we're gonna reuse those factory 11 millimeter nuts to
secure the new tail lights to the vehicle.
So go ahead and hand-tighten those and drive them home with your 11 millimeter socket.
All right, the
last step of our install is reinstalling that plastic trim piece with those two plastic
push pins.
Well, guys, that wraps up our install of the Vector tail lights, fitting your 2010 to 2012
Mustang.
I'm Travis, thanks for watching.
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