Late to the party, but I stuck these/similar LED strips directly to my factory bed liner and they're still holding on tight 6 months later. No zip ties or anything like that. I just made sure the clean the relevant parts of the bed liner real good with rubbing alcohol
Looks like these: 2X 60" LED BAR TRUCK BED LIGHTS CARGO WORK STRIPS KIT FOR CHEVY FORD DODGE GMC | eBay
Where are you getting your power fromHad my LED strips installed couple weeks ago, a must for XL owners or even XLT owners who don’t have a light inside the bed. The factory lighting from 3rd brake light just isn’t enough especially if you have a tonneau cover on.
I purchased two 6ft LED strips that came as a bundle, a switch was included. I used the factory pigtail that was provided and spliced the power and ground wires. A simple job but time consuming to tuck the wire and ensure that the mod would last.
I removed the left rear cover (bin for those non-XL owners). Ran the LED wires thru the rubber grommet that was already on the vehicle.
My LED were 6ft long so I had a few inches left over so I stuck them onto the front of the bed making a L Shape. Ran wires under the vehicle in front of spare tires. Took a bit of time to ensure the wires weren’t just hanging, secured all wiring to existing harness and electric taped all my wires as I didn’t want any water/mud/dirt/snow damage. Was able to sneak the switch between the bed and tailgate. Electric taped the switch completely and did a small cut out for the actually switch button to protrude out of the electric tape.
It was the only spot I could reach with the provided wires I was giving from the LED strip, I could have extended the switch wire but got lazy. Overall I like the setup and pretty sure I won’t have any wire damage to come, hopefully these LED last. They're super bright, if I had the tonneau cover folded and lights on, you'd see me EVERYYTHING. Super excited to put this truck to use when camping season opens again.
Where are you getting your power fromHad my LED strips installed couple weeks ago, a must for XL owners or even XLT owners who don’t have a light inside the bed. The factory lighting from 3rd brake light just isn’t enough especially if you have a tonneau cover on.
I purchased two 6ft LED strips that came as a bundle, a switch was included. I used the factory pigtail that was provided and spliced the power and ground wires. A simple job but time consuming to tuck the wire and ensure that the mod would last.
I removed the left rear cover (bin for those non-XL owners). Ran the LED wires thru the rubber grommet that was already on the vehicle.
My LED were 6ft long so I had a few inches left over so I stuck them onto the front of the bed making a L Shape. Ran wires under the vehicle in front of spare tires. Took a bit of time to ensure the wires weren’t just hanging, secured all wiring to existing harness and electric taped all my wires as I didn’t want any water/mud/dirt/snow damage. Was able to sneak the switch between the bed and tailgate. Electric taped the switch completely and did a small cut out for the actually switch button to protrude out of the electric tape.
It was the only spot I could reach with the provided wires I was giving from the LED strip, I could have extended the switch wire but got lazy. Overall I like the setup and pretty sure I won’t have any wire damage to come, hopefully these LED last. They're super bright, if I had the tonneau cover folded and lights on, you'd see me EVERYYTHING. Super excited to put this truck to use when camping season opens again.
I installed the 3 level of brightness levels from Amazon for $25.00
They typically come with a switch. I wasn't real impressed with the lack of weather-tightness to the switch on my (yet uninstalled) kit so I just removed/bypassed it. But then I plan on tying it into the Lux Package cargo light switch as mentioned here.Dumb question, but how do these turn on and off? If a USB/DC outlet is added to the bed there’s a switch?
Yes this is the problem that I would like to address.
It's funny because I have come to realized the exact same thing. haha.. It' s too much of hassle to figure out battery and stuffy. Though I will still keep the 12v led since it's very nice and bright but I am also add a usb port to power sensor led light power by battery (like one of those under cabinet.
