How are you doing and thanks for watching. This is George at Wicked Warnings, your number one source
for construction and emergency strobe lighting and safety equipment for cars, vans, trucks, buses,
SUVs, bicycles, tricycles, everything in between. What we're looking at right here is a brand
spanking new Ford Escape, real nice one. This particular model is gonna be used for a guy that
needed a lot of warning, so we spec'd to do a nice clean amber and green package for this gentleman.
What we've got in the front is our TIR-3 in green and amber synchronized to alternate two by two.
I did that just to give a good punch of color. As you can see, we've got the white and green
alternating color going right up front. I didn't want to go real wild with the
patterns because most of the time the front warning can be a little bit more subdued.
Around the sides, you can see our Thin-X LIN series 2 in green and white there alternating
both colors in kind of a faster pattern. Now we mounted that right in front of the side view
mirror on the triangle panel. Fairly easy mount. We remove the panel, attach the light, run the
wiring forward through the fenders into the engine bay. The grille and the fog light bezel mount
there with the TIR-3's in the front, also fairly easy. Fish the wiring up back behind the bumper
into the engine bay, make your connections, and go right into the vehicle through the fairly large
factory provided grommet. If you can't figure out how to get through the firewall on one of these,
then you gotta back away from the vehicle because you can almost fit your fist through the firewall
hole. The other thing we've gotten into here recently, I don't do a whole lot of them but
I'm starting to do more and more is a factory style remote start. I don't like the ones where
you have that extra cheap key fob on there, so we like to take the original key fobs like this
and we put in a remote start system that allows you to hit lock three times
and on the factory key, as you can see,
you'll get remote start. No extra fobs to carry, no batteries to go dead,
and of course, you can hit lock three times again and shut the car off as well.
Just like that. So if you're interested in this, email us in. We're not going to have these for
sale on the website just yet but we do install them locally. That was part of the package on
this particular vehicle, remote start as well as warning. Let me pull it forward and show you
what we did around the back of it. What I'll show you first with our nice wide angle lens here is
the side profile. As you can see, around the back we also feature our Thin-X not only here, but we
do have it around the back you'll see in a minute as well. So along the sides, we've got two of our
Thin-X green-white LIN series, both in a fairly aggressive flash pattern. This rear location
is right in the lower bumper cover, customer specified that. He was okay with drilling the
bumper cover here and around the back, and in the front here, this triangle location right here,
we drill hole for that too. So overall, minimal damage to get a real good side warning package.
This particular client preferred the lower bumper surface mount versus the opera rear window behind
the factory tint. This tint is pretty dark on this one and we wanted extreme brightness, so we chose
to go ahead and leave both of these exposed and surface mount it like that. So they're very bright.
Alright, let me show you around the back. Alrighty, I turned off the shop lights that
are over me directly right now just to give you a little bit of- in the rear we're featuring a six
head LED stick flashing all green. This particular one's made by Feniex but we are going to be
getting our Wicked Stick six head in green-white very soon. So that'll be the replacement for this
stick is our new, all-new Wicked Stick in green-white six head and it'll be set to flash
green just like this if you want, or white, or a combination thereof. You can also see underneath
there, we've got our Thin-X LIN series on the bumper surface mounted, as I said earlier. Now
I turn the lights back on you can kind of see the location of the mounting there a little clearer.
This particular bar we did mount in the hatch. It raises with the hatch. We used a threaded rod and
a nutsert to attach it. I've got some photos that we will have in here as well about how
we mounted that bar. Here you can see, you just got a real nice little small L bracket. We got a
rivnut underneath this panel, threaded rod, a couple bolts, and we went right along this way
with the wiring. Don't crucify me. Sometimes I run the wiring through the factory boot but being
that this one was surface mounted right here, it just is nicer and quicker to go like this.
Both are perfectly acceptable ways. Down here on the bumper cover, you can see here where our
Thin-X's are mounted. Now that wiring is ran right behind there and up through some factory boots.
There are some rubber boots to easily access. So if this is a location that works for you,
by all means you can go ahead and do it. I have also mounted hideaways in these reverse lights
here in a different video of an Escape. So if you have any interest in that, email in
and we can give you some info on that. Alrighty, now on these new Escape cabins
there's really not a lot of area for switches. Everything's kind of smooth, as you can see,
and and not a whole lot of area. We don't want to drill in that radiused radio or any of that stuff.
I suppose we could go down here somewhere but we got the electric parking brake and the shifter.
So what I like to do, this caught my eye but it's a foam panel and I would not recommend
doing a switch there. If you have a done one, by all means, email us in some pictures,
but what we've done now is we actually take this panel off right here. I'm gonna zoom in a little
bit for you. There you go. We take that panel off right there and we're able to put a switch
here. Now I will say this, if you mount the switch, don't mount it all the way to the
end or it hits this bezel back here. You need to mount it kind of closer, as I'm showing,
to the front. See here, this location distance right here is crucial. Otherwise, you whack into
this bezel behind it. So if you like that switch location, that's where you can get one mounted
right on the Escapes. The wiring will then go behind and under this panel and go through here.
This particular thing pops out easy enough. So I hope this video has been informative. If you
have a nice Escape like this or any other vehicle and you need some safety and strobe
lighting equipment, bring it on down to Wicked Warnings or hit up our website wickedwarnings.com,
or better yet, maybe check out that little floating 'i" in the corner here,
or click on the show more right down here, and you'll get a lot more information about all the
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