How you guys doing and thanks for watching. This is George here at Wicked Warnings.
Got the door open. It's kind of nice out today. We're looking at a 2020
Chevy Traverse. It's a brand new Traverse. This is for our friends in the security industry.
We wanted to do a slick top build. We do a lot of light bars for the same client in green. You may
have seen some of our other videos. We'll throw a link up to them here. This particular Traverse,
kind of a sister to a different Traverse we've done in the past. This one's a slick top, as I
mentioned. It's got an interior light bar. That's by Feniex inside. We ordered that special for
this customer. We can order yours too, any color combination that you need. This particular one's
mostly green with a white takedown. It's a little washed out with the door open. You can
see in the front grille there, we've got some white hideaways mounted from the back of the top of the
grille there where we had a little bit of room and we've got a green LIN-6 down in the bumper.
There we go. Got a little bit better view of it now. We synchronized the LIN-6 to our LED
white HAW DUO above it. We're doing a low dome in that HAW DUO in white. It's back-mounted in the
grille and an all green on the LIN-6 below it. They do sync up well. You can get a nice
X-pattern just like what you see here. We've also got the takedown feature enabled on the
interior light bar. That'll work with or without the warning, as you can see without and if you do
have your warning on, the takedown will override it. With the takedown feature off, the takedown lights
themselves will flash as part of the warning. So we got a little bit of white up high in the middle of
the window flashing, a little bit of white right next to the headlights there in the grille, and
then a lot of green on each side of the windshield, and a little green on the corners there as well.
There's a little bit of corner view for you. I'm going to turn off that takedown switch now and
enable the flashing of the takedown and there you can see the takedown flashing is enabled now.
So in standard flash mode, you're going to get the takedowns unless you override them and make them
steady by the takedown switch. Let me show you something else cool that I did in the- with
the front light bar in the windshield, as well as the six head stick that was in the back window.
We also had a six head stick in the back window, you'll see in a little bit and we did the arrow
stick pattern, the directional on both of these. So as you can see right here, we're arrowing left
and you can't really see it immediately right now but the back is also doing it.
You can kind of see the six head stick reflecting off the door there.
Here you can see it. Now they're not in sync because I didn't synchronize them together, no
real need for that but they are both arrow left or arrow right together and I did put a jumper on
the left side of the dashboard in case we wanted to switch which one we're using. Right now, the
controller has arrow left and arrow right running both light bars but it's easily selectable to run
front or rear or both. I kept the jumper on the left of the dashboard. Alrighty, so here we're
doing left arrow with warning and you can see that we get a nice alternating takedown flash,
as well as our bumpers set up with our warning too. So if you have your warning switch on, this is what
you're going to get with your left and right arrow. Of course, we do the right arrow as well. Got a nice
pattern set on each the left and the right arrow. Kind of slow, definitely one of the better
patterns if you ask me and then for center-out- for the center-out pattern, we went with a little
bit quicker pattern. There's a bunch you can choose. Of course, when you adjust the pattern
you can pick up a variety of different arrow stick patterns in these light sticks, which is cool.
So this is just what we had set up and the back one is set very similar
to the front one. It's just a solid six head stick, not a split like the windshield. Alright, here we
are backed up a little bit of ways. You can see the full package. This is set up just on their
warning switch right now for front warning. You can see the bright shop lights right above it.
Looks pretty good. Alright, you can see here in the front, warning's on.
We got nothing going on in the back right now but when we switch on the back warning,
we're going to get a couple things happening around the back. I'll show you in a minute
and we're also going to get the side-facing Thin-X in green and white. Now that's a LIN
series Thin-X in green-white. We're using a 90 degree bracket to mount it right to the plastic
in the rear window there and it does quite a nice job with that LIN lens. Nice and bright, alternating
full amber- or I'm sorry, green and white. Alrighty, what do we got going back here? So we got the six
head fusion bar by Feniex in all green. Now we used this by request of the customer to match up
with the front Fusion, just so the patterns were all the same and everything was the same brand.
Works out real well. Below it though, you'll see our LED HAW DUO. It's a low dome in green
and as well as our TIR-3 in white. We're using our 90 degree bracket to mount that TIR-3 on
the underside of that plastic panel that has the license plate lights in it above the rear plate.
We've synchronized the same pattern, the X-pattern that we did in the front. Now in the front, we were
using a LIN-6 and a HAW DUO and in the back, we're using a TIR-3 and a HAW DUO. A TIR-3 is also
very easy to synchronize with the HAW DUO. As you can see, you can get that X-pattern, so if this
is a look you're after, you can use the HAW DUO with the TIR-3 or a LIN-6 and get the same effect.
Now because we had so much lighting on the hatch itself, we didn't want to lose everything by hatch
mounting the light stick. So I'll try and turn it down a little bit. You can't even see, it just blasts
everything here. We'll put it on auto and put the ISO back on auto and see, there you go. So the
stick is actually interior-mounted but before we get to showing you all of that, I want to show you
back the arrow that we talked about earlier. There's your left arrow pattern in the rear
with the warning. You don't need to have the warning on to use the arrow.
There's your right arrow without the warning but warning will work too
and there's that center-out that we spoke about. Showed it on the front earlier
and here's my favorite mode, your center-out with all your warning. I don't know, I just
like this pattern. It's kind of cool looking. That's actually the pattern that we have set for warning
with arrow stick off, same pattern on the front as well. Customer request. The customer really
likes this pattern so that's what we set their stuff at because that's what they really like.
Okay, all lights off, let me show you how we mounted some stuff and I'll also show you the Whelen Air
Horn PA System that we installed in this vehicle as well. Well first off, we got our TIR-3's right
here. I took that silver panel off when I took out the tail lights to do the hideaway. Pretty
easy to do. Pop the panel off the interior of the gate, couple seven millimeter or eight millimeter--
I believe it was actually eight millimeter bolts, and we used our 90 degree bracket. You can kind
of see we have a nice little flat screw there and we ran the wiring backwards and up, put it
through a little grommet, sealed it up, added all our waterproof connections behind there and there's a
rubber grommet that goes through the actual metal of the gate that we went through with
our wire and sealed that all up too. Reinstall that and that's how we got the TIR-3's right here mounted.
You could do the same with the LIN-6 . You could do the same with a Thin-X. All of them
have 90 degree brackets. The Thin-X might be a little tight on space but I could see
it happening. So all those options will work the same on this particular Traverse model if you
wanted to do something a little different on yours. Back to talking about the hideaway. You can see
it right there mounted next to the factory light. We did remove the lens from the tailgate assembly
to do this but it's a fairly easy process. Drill a one-inch hole and you put a hideaway right there.
Now that is inside, as you can see, the tailgate lens of this Traverse. So you can do that in any
color. We have all the colors of the hideaway, even purple if that's what you needed. Alrighty,
back here on the light stick, you can kind of see there where we
mounted our bracket. Basically this was holding up the headliner from the factory right there
in that spot. We took that out and we put in a nutsert and a little bit of threaded rod or
a bolt with the head cut off, and a bracket. And you can use an off the shelf bracket. This was
actually a leftover bracket we had around the shop and that's what we ended up with there.
Nutsert, nut, bracket, nice and easy and that's what it looks like from the back end there.
Of course, if your bracket wasn't the exact same size, you could just use a little longer nut and
stud there and double nut it and you can have a nice adjustment for height there with the length
before you cut it to fit. We checked ours and then cut it when we knew exactly where we wanted it.
Right here, you can see how we mounted our Thin-X and I just had to clean away that shaving from
the screw there and that's just a Thin-X on a 90 degree bracket right there and we ran the wire
through the hole right there in the plastic and brought it around the side. So simple and easy. Mounts right in
the back window but a LIN-6 or a TIR-3 would also work great there equally with a 90 degree bracket.
We were able to just tuck this wire in here. That way, if it was ever removed,
you could essentially actually probably put this plastic plug back into the nutsert and it would be like
nothing was really there and just get the wire right out of there and be done with it. We ran our
wiring down there and forward and there's a couple of little access panels you can pop out to help you
better root the cabling as you're gonna go forward all the way to your switching. Alright, so as far
as the hideaways in the grille, I spoke with the customer on a previous build of his and he
really did like the old school headlight flashing that the police cars had and these guys do work
security. So they like to have the look and the easiest way to replicate that is of course, a
white LED back and forth and on this particular grille and a couple of other grilles we've done
for the same company, it just seemed to work out real nice to pop a one inch hole
and back-mount our HAW DUO low dome and we get a nice bright white effective alternate flash
on the top of the grille. And it's minimally invasive. That top piece of the grille, I
guess you could replace later or you could do something else to cover up the hole. But
not a real big invasive install there and then below it, this particular model doesn't have fog
lights but we put right above the standard fog light location in the bezel there our LIN-6
and we did drill a hole for the wire there on that LIN-6. You can see we did the same on the other side
and we were able to synchronize them up with the LED above it because they're in the same family of
lights. So the HAW DUO and the LIN-6 do synchronize quite nicely. That's really what we did around the
front. There's a 100 watt speaker buried underneath there but I didn't take any pictures of where we
put that at the time. Alrighty, so here in the cab, you can see this is where we mounted our Mini
6 controller and our microphone. Microphone comes out of a nice grommet hole back there in the rear
and we did mount the amplifier control unit kind of behind it way in the back there.
After you take off the side panel, you can get after it in the way back.
We were able to actually secure it with a factory stud and we supplied a nut and we're able
to lock it down on a factory stud. Worked out real well. So here you can see around the back,
if I take you in there- there we go. We clipped back the mat area and we ran our wiring down
through there. That goes to the back of this controller. Now this is a swivel mount but we
kind of fixed it in place right here. We like that location. Works out real well.
We keep the microphone right here. Of course, on the controller, we've got all of our functionality.
Let's see here. There you go. I'll try to focus it a little better for you. Alrighty, we've got
our front light bar, got our rear lighting, front lighting, more than just a light bar.
We've got our horn button. That's a momentary button that does the air horn tone. We've got our
takedown that turns on the takedowns. Got a main on and off to turn on and off the system right there
and as you can see, it is backlit. So you can see it at night and as I said, we keep the microphone
just tucked right up in here. Don't use the microphone all that often but it is nice to have
when it's needed. Simple easy control right here in the cockpit for the whole system. Customer likes
that kind of stuff. So above it here, these were a chore and a half. This is a Traverse. At the
time of filming, there wasn't a mount really made for the Traverse, the 2020 Traverse, that I could find.
This is a Fusion interior light bar, universal bracket, universal style. It comes with a nice
fat foam gasket which was extremely useful on this install. I will fire it up right now because
I'm sure you're wondering about the flashback. So let me fire it up and you can see we're getting
just a little bit on the edges and I'm debating if I want to put an ugly tape here to try to
get rid of that or not. It really isn't that bad. It's just a tiny bit so I was quite happy
with how well this worked along here. It really did seal up the forward vision. It's really not
bad. Like I say, I may address this if the customer wants me to but I think it would be an
ugly solution to a minimal problem. So we'll turn this back off. Back to what I was talking about.
No good brackets that fit that I found. So we ordered the universal and what we were able to
do with the universal is after pulling the headliner down and pulling this pain in the butt out-
four clips. One, two, three, four. They are metal clips but man it feels like you're gonna bust this thing.
We had to kind of take the headliner down and get in there with a screwdriver to help the clip from
the top. It was a pain in the butt. I guarantee it was. So anyways, with the metal clips over here, we
found that there was enough meat in a dual layer piece of metal on the roof here to use a
self-tapping screw, pre-drill nice and careful, because these universal clips don't fit nothing
and this doesn't fit anything here either. This is a dedicated car for these guys, so
the four little tiny holes that the screws are going to leave in the headliner, they're
sacrificial. We had to do it to get the interior light bar the way they wanted it.
So put it back up. It's nice locked in tight to the windshield. That's how we have it set up.
I mean if you have a better way, by all means, show me via email. Drop a comment. You know,
share it with the world man because this is just what we did and I think it worked
out real well. You know, same situation over here. The universal is just kind of with it
but there's enough meat there and the appropriate size screw- I think I used an
inch and a quarter but definitely was very careful with my drill bit. Made sure exactly what
I was doing when I did it and there we go on that. So I actually get that popped in there.
So that's how that mounted up and I'll turn back on for you. There you go.
There you can kind of see in the back. You don't lose very much view in the back at all.
You can see that just hangs down very little. It's snug right up to the bottom of the headliner there.
So overall, I'm real pleased with this install. Thanks for sticking with me 15 minutes here
and drop a comment, let me know what you think. Make sure you take a look for the other video,
the outside videos and the other cousins of this build that we've also done in green
and we'll put links to all the stuff and make sure you email in with any questions
info@wickedwarnings.com and keep us in mind. Again, this is George at Wicked Warnings. I'm
your number one source for construction and emergency safety and strobe lighting equipment
for all kinds of applications cars, vans, buses, trusses, bicycles, tricycles, SUVs, 2020 Chevy
Traverses like this and many other things. So thanks again for watching. I appreciate it. I'll
see you guys in the next video. Man, I almost forgot to show you guys the coolest part about this build.
Way back here, we got our ticket light. Oh yeah, a little extra white and a little cool red.
So we got that red light in here. That was it. There's a little ticket light up there. Kind
of cool. I like it. So that's it. Thanks for watching. Bye now.
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