Hello. Thank you for watching. This is George again at Wicked Warnings, here
with another brand-new F-150, believe this is a 2020 model. What we're featuring on
this truck with our LED strobe warning lights are our LIN-6 right there
on the grille. We're also featuring our LED HAW DUO LED emergency lights out back,
as well as some of our very popular LED lights for trucks in the form of our
Wicked Slick Stick in the 2 head fashion in the back window.
I think the rear of the truck of this particular build is what I'm most proud
of. We did something unique on this. We're gonna try to start infiltrating this
into more of our builds. What that is, is a day and a night mode. Sometimes some of
these trucks operate in the brightest sunlight there is, as well as the darkest
night and you wouldn't want to have the exact same warning package to
effectively work in both instances. During the day, you'd want to supplement
that with a little brighter warning, possibly some white to stand out in the
sunlight and at night, you'd want to subdue that down just a little bit. So
what we've done in the back of this truck is exactly that. As you can see,
again on the grille there, we've got our LIN-6 LED warning lights. Here's a
little closer up shot. You can see we've mounted those vertically because in this
particular sport grille, the LIN-6 fits vertically. The TIR-3 by Wicked
Warnings would fit horizontally. Don't forget by the way to check
the video description for links to every one of these individual products, as well
as a link for a shopping cart containing all of these products and the bulk wire
that you would need to do this install, as well as the two dashboard switches
to make an install exactly like this. I will supply all the parts in one link
and all the individual parts will be linked out as well in the description of
the vehicle. Click the more info button down below in, not the description of the
vehicle, the description of the video down in the read more below.
Alright, let me spin it around and show you what we did in the back.
Okay, pardon the messy shop floor but out back, we are in mode one right now,
which is primarily the low warning mode, effective for nighttime warning or
general all-amber warning. What we've got, is our Slick Stick 2 head in an
alternating amber pattern on the back window, vertically mounted because this
truck has a sliding back window. So by vertically mounting these to the
trim panel, we're able to not interfere with any of the sliding action of that
back window or have to cut the headliner to make custom brackets. We can mount
right to the side panels, the trim panels and you'll get this exact effect with
our 2 head Slick Stick and the included mounting brackets are what we
used. No additional brackets needed. They mount up just like this and I'll show
you how in a moment. You can also see our LED HAW DUO in low dome. For the upper and
lower, we've used two sets of low dome. We've alternated them in the 95 FPM
double flash pattern I believe, in an X-pattern. Synchronized the third brake
light with the taillights to flash in the X-pattern, as you see and we've added
in the Slick Stick 2 head, the Wicked Stick in the back window. Now let me show
you what happens when we press one of the other switches. We have two switches
on this build and right now we're in all-amber mode and by activating the second
switch, we've now changed not only the color output but also the pattern of the
Wicked Slick Stick because the Slick Stick has three different possible
inputs. It has an input for amber flashing power wire, a power wire for the
white flashing and a power wire by combining amber and white together. So
you can effectively choose three different flash patterns if you were to
put three switches. Now this truck is just using two switches. One switch on
the amber pattern and by adding another switch, including the white, we're able to
change the pattern to a little bit faster and have the alternating white as
well. Now this is very useful for the daytime but as you can see, at night it
could become a little overbearing with the white.
So by turning off the second switch, you're able to go back to all-amber and
tone it down slightly for the nighttime warning. Now we're gonna elaborate on
this procedure with other builds, by adding in more lights and doing more
changes with the one and two switches, the day and night switch. This is just
the first attempt at bringing this idea to light for the day and night mode. So
that way, we have adequate warning, whether it be bright sunlight or dark
night. So what I'll do right now, as you can see in the video is I'll go ahead and
darken up the camera a little to show you that color display a little bit
better and what you're gonna notice as I open the door, is not only is the third
brake light equipped with the LED HAW but it also has the original cargo
lights still in place. We were able to relocate those and I do have a video in
my DIY section that shows you how. So you don't lose your cargo light
functionality, unless it's one of the LED cargo lights. If it's a factory LED cargo
light, unfortunately you will need to remove those.
However, this truck being a Sport Edition, had a factory incandescent cargo light,
so we were able to remount and save the cargo lights. Let me show you how that
pattern changes again on the Slick Stick.
See now when I open the door, how your cargo light remains in effect.
I'll turn off the daytime mode and we return back to the subdued all-amber warning in the back window
and after a few seconds, the cargo
light will dim out to nothing and the strobes will return to their X-pattern
uninhibited by the OEM cargo light. Of course, Ford takes a little while to turn
that light off. It's gonna make me look bad now and keep
it on forever but it will dim out, just like they do in all the other trucks. Let
me show you the mounting of these lights and there we go, it dimmed out. Alright,
so it takes just that long for the Ford cargo light to shut off and let me show
you how I mounted these lights inside and just one other modification that
we've done for this truck, as a courtesy, no charge for the owner of the truck. I
am known once in a while to just do some extra useful modifications, without being
asked and this was one of them. Okay, so here inside the vehicle,
pardon the flashing, you can see we've used our factory brackets right up
against the trim panel and we were able to mount that Slick Stick right there on
the trim panel with the included screws and no extra work needed. It fits very
very nicely, takes up almost the whole back window there vertically and does
not interfere with the sliding window and that extra modification I wanted to
talk to you about was, you've got an F-150. You probably have seats like this
and you probably already know that when you pull on this strap right here, you
get access to your jack back here and it's very nice. It's a small seat, gives
you a little bit of access to the jack but you can't get behind this one. I mean
that's a big ol' seat and there's probably, yeah, there's a lot of room back there. So
how do you move this seat forward anyways? It doesn't have the
little pull strap because there's no factory Jack behind this one. So it's
missing that pull strap. I will go ahead and lock this back and go over to the
other side. Now if you want to take advantage of the
storage room behind the larger portion of the folding seat, you just need to
make a quick modification back here and what we've done, as you can see, folds
down great. Here's your latch. On the latch itself right here,
you can see where we have drilled a hole and we've inserted this cable and what
that allows you to do is release the latch by pulling up here. So you can
reach your hand way back there initially, on day one and you just have to find
that little button and wiggle it up while you're moving the seat in and out
to loosen up that latch. And what we did, is we just drilled a hole in there and put
a little wire right here, so you can reach it from the top and that way, you
can simply lock the seat back and you can get to the little wire right there
with your finger and bring the seat forward and access all of that glorious,
glorious room to hide a bunch of stuff you'll probably never use. So that's just
something we threw in. I own an F-150. It's a very useful modification. I hope
you enjoy it and as far as where we put the switches on this particular build,
I think you can see them right there but let me zoom in a little closer for you.
This is our favorite most favorite spot to put switches right here. We can put
three in a row or two in a row. What we've done is we've added the red for
the additional white warning on the inside there. Probably won't be used very
much but he'll be using more so of the green, all-amber warning right here. So
once again, thanks again for watching. This is George at Wicked Warnings, your
number one source for truck and emergency construction equipment, strobe
lighting, LED lighting for trucks, vans, SUVs, buses, boats, cars, bicycles, trains,
everything and anything and I definitely would like to see your build come in. So
give us a shot when you get time and thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings.