Hi. Thanks for watching. How y'all doing? Just wanted to take a little bit
of advantage of this beautiful weather we're having here and as you can see, my
shop's a little full right now, so we're doing an outdoor video. I haven't done an
outdoor video in a long time, so it feels good to get out here in the
open. What we're featuring on this brand spankin' new Ram 2500 is our Thin-X LIN
series in amber-white. We've got 4 of them mounted in the grille.
We're X-patterning with a cross in the color from amber to white. This
particular truck is going on to the rail yards for a very well-known large
railway company. It's gonna be a maintenance vehicle, so it'll be in and
out of train yards all over America and this was all spec'd exactly how they
wanted it. So we've got a little bit more subdued pattern in the front with the
alternating colors. We mounted those Thin-X by using a piece of ABS plastic as a
backer and we were able to cover up one of those elongated honeycomb sections
and mount the Thin-X right on the grille. Worked out very nicely.
As you can see with that head-on shot, you get a nice pop of both colors
alternating there in an X-pattern. Worked out real well. Now you might notice
there in front of the front wheel, we've got our Razor tucked in ever so
nicely above the bumper and below the fender in an alternating amber-white
triple flash. We've got this on each side for some front corner warning.
If you follow my channel and you like watching the Fords, you see all the time
where I put them down in the tow hook bezel. Of course, this truck didn't have
factory tow hooks. We could have mounted a light where the factory tow hook went but
I do like this location right here below the fender because the Razor tucks in
very nicely there and gives you a real good bright warning right at the front
of your truck. It's a little bit closer shot of that Razor snuggled in there
nicely. Let me spin this thing around show you the rear.
So what we've done out back, is I've mounted our 28-inch Thin-X Strip on
that little lip on the bumper plastic. The top of the bumper plastic sits
almost vertical there. Gives you a nice little lip. Our 12-inch Thin-X Strip or
our 28", as pictured, will both fit here. If you do the 28", it does just slightly
go over the license plate and I'll show you a still picture of that in a second but
as you can see here, we've got them synchronized. We've got them in an
alternating 2 white, 2 amber pattern and if you pay close attention, you'll
see every segment not only flashes amber but also white. So it basically goes
white, white, amber, amber, white, white, amber, amber but they all have dual
colors. So there's many different patterns on the Thin-X, this is just
one of them. I hope this illustrates a little bit of
the brightness of our Thin-X light. As you can see here, this far away we are
still steady nice and bright, easily view-able and you'll also notice our LED HAW DUO.
Now this particular Ram did not have the factory LED lighting, so we were
able to put the hideaways in the reverse and the marker. However, if you have
factory LED, that's going to be a lot more difficult. So with this one, we were
able to put orange hideaway in the reverse and white hideaway in the
signal. I just flip-flopped it because I felt
like being different. Put the white on the bottom and the orange up in the
reverse. We X-patterned it in a quick double flash, as you can see and we also
put those Thin-X Strips on a steady white and I'll show you momentarily.
Here you can see those DUO's a little bit better, rocking in the taillights and
if you're sneaky, you can also see that brand-new 2020 F-350 Platinum, tomorrow's
job sitting in the shop there next to Altom's great big beast of a box truck.
Make sure you check out the video on that big box truck, that was a cool job
and here's your real close up of those amber and white LED HAW DUO's.
As you can see here, this is what I mean. We center wired these so we could easily
synchronize them and you could see they do just cover the plate in a tiny bit. We
chose to mount these with VHB self-adhesive tape and we didn't put the
tape on the last little bit, so if they did have to slide out the plate, they
could. We also relocated the license plate screws to the edges, as you can see
there and that was more than enough room to allow us to put the strips across.
Doesn't impede the registration or the expiration date and it allows the 28-inch
Strip on the back of this truck, which is very cool and very bright and
as I said, we did tie this into steady burn with the white. As you can see there,
we have the full 28-inch Strip steady burning in white. We're controlling all
this off the aux switches that came factory on this truck. Let me show you
what I'm talking about. So here in the cab, we've got these fancy Mopar aux
switches. We've programmed them to work with or without the key. All optional. You
set them all up here. You can set these for momentary. You can
set them for battery power or ignition power. All kinds of fun stuff. One and two
are left open for future upgrades per the customer. Three is the front, four is
the rear, five is the rear flood, six is left open for future per the customer.
Thanks again for watching. This is George at Wicked Warnings. This truck
also received sidesteps, bed liner and a bunch of other little goodies that I
won't include links to because they're custom order. But you will get a link for
every item that Wicked stocks that I used on this build, as well as a link for
the entire build as a kit with the wire you'll need and the products you'll need.
You will still need the expertise to put it together. Thanks for watching Wicked
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