WxNerd2015
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Xprite LED Side Marker Lights Installation (Prep)
Once again, life has continued to keep me busy and i have fallen waaaaay behind in updates for the Jeep again! So, to continue the timeline, I will try and update all of them in order!
So back in October of 2018, I had a side marker light go out. Now those are one of few lights that were still halogen on the Jeep, but nonetheless, since I had replaced so many lights...I had spares that fit that bulb. So i reached under the fender, twisted the bulb socket out and attempted to remove the stock 194 halogen bulb. And of coarse, nothing is ever as easy as it should be! So have 45 minutes of struggling trying every method I could think of to remove this bulb...it shatters. Now I am stock with the base of this bulb still in the socket and no way to get it out. So I then went searching for a new socket, because after some further inspection, the socket itself seemed to have a lot of corrosion in it. But I could not find just the socket anywhere! I had to spend way too much for an entire marker light assembly just to get the socket. So after much looking, I gave up on the socket search and decided it would be way easier and cheaper to just replace the entire marker light assembly!
I did some looking, research, and contacted a few off road shops for my best way to proceed, and based on cost compared to others and reliability factors, I decided on the Xprite LED Ambe/Yellow Side Marker Lights!
Now, I ended up settling on these lights over most other options on the fact that they are extremely cheap at only $20 for the pair, and their quality may not be as good as other light Recon, but these work completely plug and play, and even if these break, I could buy 4 or 5 more sets of these before I would even hit the price of one of the Recon kits! Plus it seems the Xprite Customer Service is not too bad if anything does happen! And I was definitely hoping the Marker Light Turn Signal Mod that I did would still work with these! And once again, compared to some others as well, these had the proper connector for the Jeep and are completely plug and play!
I had most of the tools needed for this installation, as it was fairly simple, but the one tool i did not have was a plastic rivet installation tool. This is needed as you will need to remove a few of the rivets holding the fender liner to the fender to peel the fender liner back to get to the marker light. Though, if you can be careful enough to remove the plastic rivets, you could then be able to reuse them, but I have broken enough bolts and clips, that for $25 with the tool and rivets, it was worth the piece of mind to be able to finish the job there and not worry about breaking the rivets.
Once again, life has continued to keep me busy and i have fallen waaaaay behind in updates for the Jeep again! So, to continue the timeline, I will try and update all of them in order!
So back in October of 2018, I had a side marker light go out. Now those are one of few lights that were still halogen on the Jeep, but nonetheless, since I had replaced so many lights...I had spares that fit that bulb. So i reached under the fender, twisted the bulb socket out and attempted to remove the stock 194 halogen bulb. And of coarse, nothing is ever as easy as it should be! So have 45 minutes of struggling trying every method I could think of to remove this bulb...it shatters. Now I am stock with the base of this bulb still in the socket and no way to get it out. So I then went searching for a new socket, because after some further inspection, the socket itself seemed to have a lot of corrosion in it. But I could not find just the socket anywhere! I had to spend way too much for an entire marker light assembly just to get the socket. So after much looking, I gave up on the socket search and decided it would be way easier and cheaper to just replace the entire marker light assembly!
I did some looking, research, and contacted a few off road shops for my best way to proceed, and based on cost compared to others and reliability factors, I decided on the Xprite LED Ambe/Yellow Side Marker Lights!
Now, I ended up settling on these lights over most other options on the fact that they are extremely cheap at only $20 for the pair, and their quality may not be as good as other light Recon, but these work completely plug and play, and even if these break, I could buy 4 or 5 more sets of these before I would even hit the price of one of the Recon kits! Plus it seems the Xprite Customer Service is not too bad if anything does happen! And I was definitely hoping the Marker Light Turn Signal Mod that I did would still work with these! And once again, compared to some others as well, these had the proper connector for the Jeep and are completely plug and play!
I had most of the tools needed for this installation, as it was fairly simple, but the one tool i did not have was a plastic rivet installation tool. This is needed as you will need to remove a few of the rivets holding the fender liner to the fender to peel the fender liner back to get to the marker light. Though, if you can be careful enough to remove the plastic rivets, you could then be able to reuse them, but I have broken enough bolts and clips, that for $25 with the tool and rivets, it was worth the piece of mind to be able to finish the job there and not worry about breaking the rivets.
