How are you doing? Thanks for watching. This is George here again with Wicked
Warnings, your number one source for strobe lights for trucks and
construction LED safety and emergency warning equipment. Here we have a brand
new Transit 350 made by Ford. This particular monster of a van is going to
be used as a service truck for a trucking fleet for when they have issues
on the road. This will be the repair truck and what we've got on the front of
this is our LED HAW DUO in a HD lens. I recessed them into the grille
because first, forward warning on a service truck is definitely secondary,
it's not too important. Most of the time, it's facing the work being performed, so
we went with a simple alternating X-pattern double flash in amber. It's not
hard to look at. It does its job just fine and we didn't want to damage the
front of the truck here too much. There's really not a lot of room on the front
end of these Transits to put lighting and I'll show you what I mean.
So as you can see, I mean we have that real nice chrome grille and we have some
headlights. I looked at the headlights, it didn't really seem effective to put a
hideaway in the parking light. It just.. it's a fluted lens and it already has a
fairly decently bright marker light in there already and that's a pretty
complex, expensive headlight, that doesn't necessarily have any good place to drill
a hole, so we elected to stay out of that. In regards to the grille, the slots in
between are too tight for the Razor and too small for other lights to fit in
there and there's no real place to mount them in between the chrome slots. I guess
we could have mounted on the bumper but what we chose to do was to go into the
recesses right here. There's a plastic bezel in the back part of the grille. You
can see we did the same on the other side and basically right there, you
and drill a one-inch hole and back mount your High Dome LED HAW DUO. Now if you
were ever to take the lights off the van, you would simply have a one-inch hole
there that you could easily fill with a plug of some sort and you would not be
destroying this beautiful, fairly expensive chrome Transit grille. So if
you're looking for an easy way to throw a couple lights on the front of your
Transit, this is what we came up with. This area here is too small for a TIR-3.
This is really tight and no good way to mount anything in here, so this is
what we chose. And as you can see, does a nice job at the off-axis warning as well,
so I'm very happy with that. Around the back of the van, we have
installed our Whelen Mini Light Bar in a 23 inch size in all-amber with an amber
dome. We've also installed our LED HAW DUO in amber in the reverse housing and
we've also added a red HAW DUO in a lower unused reflector housing. Let me
pull it forward and show you. It's a little hard to make out the color on the
camera right now. Let's see, maybe if I darken it and I'll show you
a little bit of red. Basically, the lower is red and the upper is amber and
definitely washing out the camera. We have our light bar way up there but it's
like 12 feet in the air, so you can't see it unless you back away from the van, which
is the point. This van is going to be sitting on the side of highways, so these
four lights down low are for everything medium and lower in size, your SUV's, your
cars, all of your lower traffic that sits down low. The light that we put up here
is actually for the other trucks on the highway and as you get far enough away,
you will see that 360 light from the front, the back, all sides. But the primary
job of that roof light, being that it's so darn high on top of this vehicle, is
to warn the larger vehicles, such as semi-trailers, buses, any of the
taller vehicles that might have these lights blocked from a smaller vehicle in
front of them. So when you're in a tractor-trailer and you're blocked by a
smaller vehicle and it might cover these lights you'll still be able to see the
light that's on top. So as you can see up here, we've roof-mounted our Permanent
Mount 23-inch Whelen Mini Bar. We've elected to flash the
entire bar half on half, just to give the most effective punch. Forewarning, we did
not want to drill into the third brake light area. We did not want to compromise
these doors. We didn't want to do anything stood up on a rack here rear
only, because it does nothing for the front. So now we have a 360 light bar on
the roof of this van that you can see from all directions and you can
certainly see from any kind of a larger vehicle like a semi truck. So as you can
hear by Ford's audible warning, the engine's not started but the key's forward
and we're powering all of this off auxiliary switch number one here in this
new Transit, with only 300 miles on it. By the way, if you're looking for the switch
power for those, it's either behind the glove box back there, or under this seat,
depending on which level of trim your Transit has. The back end of this truck
was also completely Line-X'd inside, outside all the compartments 100%
Line-X'd all around. And that's because this is going to get a whole build
out in the back for service work for big trucks. Thanks again for watching Wicked
Warnings. This the George again. Make sure you check the description of the vehicle
for individual links of every product, as well as a package to build this entire
build. If you happen to have a Transit and you like the way this looks
and you have these switches too, you can order the package. One click and have
this entire package just like you like it.
Don't forget, you can always choose your
color. If red isn't your color, or amber isn't your color, we can do any of the
five safety colors on the hideaways, red amber, white, blue, green. We can also
change the roof color by special ordering if you want a different color
roof bar. So thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings, your number one source
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