How are you doing? Thanks for watching. This is George at Wicked Warnings and I
normally start the videos with the lights on but I wanted to show you this
very unique 2020 Explorer ST. I don't know if you can pick that up but it's got
the laser ST logos coming out of the side view mirrors down on the floor. Very
cool little truck made by Ford. 2020 version and if you're having trouble
picking up where the lights are on the front of it, then I did my job well
because we smoked the set of LIN-6 lights that were put on the front of
this vehicle. So they would be basically invisible when off and now you can see when
we activate them, they pop right into life and they're quite bright. We've got
a set of LIN-6's right there in the grille. We've mounted them with 3M VHB
tape, as well as the Primer 94 and we've sealed that tape up with a little bit of
RTV silicone around the edges, as well as putting RTV silicone in the center of
the light to stick it to the bottom of that fascia. We did this because we
didn't want to have any holes at all on this beautiful 2020. Owner requested
"please don't drill any holes in my truck", so we have no problem. We obliged and
we're very confident in this mount that we won't have any issues with it. Very
easy to do right there in the lower bumper opening of these trucks and to run the
wiring, you'll need to drill one small hole in the rubber fascia and the wire
comes out basically behind the headlights. So here we are, right in that
front opening and as you can see, the lights are pretty stealth. I'll throw the camera
light on for you and now you can see where they're at right there but without
that bright light on the camera, you don't even pick them up. There's a little
clearer shot. You can just pick up that yellow and amber lens there. The smoking
that we did in-house is a custom product done right here at the Wicked Warnings
facility. So if you have any interest in that, make sure you stop in and give us a
shout locally or send us an email at info, info@wickedwarnings.com and
we can give you more information via email on that modification and as you
can see, the lights disappear. I try to throw a little bit of
tech tip at you guys here while we're doing these videos now and on this 2020
Explorer, firewall access is a bit of a pain. Underneath this cover right here,
you can see, is where we grabbed our power. We went off of the main power here
that goes into the fuse box, added our own fuse and we're coming around here.
We've got a self-tapping ground into the brace right there. It gives us a nice
good ground point right there and then, as far as firewall access, you can see
right there where our wiring goes through and right there, above that
factory rubber boot and then there's, I believe that's the hood latch pull cable.
Right above that, there's a bend in the metal and that's where we were able to
drill that three-quarter hole right there. So let me try to get you a little
bit better picture of it.
There you go. Okay, as I said, you can see the fold in
the metal. So if you're wondering how to get through the firewall on the
brand-new Ford Explorer, that's what we did. Your results may vary.
Just let us know if it works out good for you. Let me show you the rest of the
back of this vehicle. Alrighty, here we are on the back of the vehicle and as you
can see in the opera rear windows, I have a Thin-X TIR series in amber-white
alternating. In each of the turn signal and reverse housings in the tail
light, we have amber and white hideaways and in the back window of the tail hatch,
we have our Wicked Stick in a six head amber-white alternation. Of course, we had
to enable the flood mode on that Wicked Stick, so that is on a secondary switch
on the dash. Here's a little better shot straight out the back so you can see
that Wicked Stick doing its thing, as well as our X-pattern on the amber-white
hideaways we put in the taillights. On this particular build, we put
the Wicked Stick right inside the hatch. As you can see, it does raise with the
hatch but you get a fairly significant amount of flashback off the glass, so
you can still see the Wicked Stick working well
reflecting backwards, as well as the hideaways in this particular vehicle.
Hatch open, no problem and then, like I said, there we've mounted the Wicked
Stick inside the hatch. We ran all the wiring through the OEM boots, so you have
no issues of slamming any wires in the door, any wires coiled up gonna get
caught on things, none of that stuff. Inside here, we were able to get a little
bit sneaky and we ran the wiring right into that vent and we used a clear VHB
tape to mount it to the glass. So again, damage-free. No holes. Ran it into the
vent, so this can be taken out if ever wanted and it's like there was never an
installation in this vehicle. Here at the light stick, we had no choice. We do have
to damage one panel in order to do the light stick mounting but as you can see,
we were able to make a nice groove in this panel for the bracket to come
through, we drill a nice hole for the wiring and now, when and if this was
decommissioned, it's just this one center panel that would have to be replaced.
Very very minimal damage at all. One plastic panel, sacrificial to mount the
six head stick in the hatch the way the client requested. Back here in the
cockpit, the client asked if we could put the switches right underneath the headlight
switch here and we have no problem doing that. We've put in an orange switch for
the warning. We've also put in a nice red switch for
the flood and we put in a push button to control the pattern on the rear LED
stick. That way, we can choose from I think up to twelve or fourteen patterns
on that Slick Stick in the back and of course, the flood will work with or without
the warning on. Makes no difference and we went with the full illumination
switches just because it gives a nice bright illumination when they're on. Very
easy to see while you're driving, so there won't be any issues driving around
with the lights on and not realizing it. So thanks again for watching Wicked
Warnings, your number one source for construction and emergency strobe light
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the website and get a little closer look at the product itself and make sure you
get what you need for your own Explorer job. Thanks again for watching. Talk to
you on the next video.