Puddle Light LED Retrofit - PICTURES
 

This was a mod that I had considered doing for a while but was a little nervous due to the lense not just "popping off" to change the lamp. I'm not sure how most people do this mod but let me walk you through how I did it. Besides for waiting for the silicone to dry, it took me less than 20 minutes to do 2 puddle lamps.

Here is everything you need.
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This where I picked up the festoon lamps. They were only $2.99!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ht_5668wt_1106

I used a hacksaw to cut around the black housing on the edge of the clear lense until the blade hits the lense. This was way easier to do than I expected. It took maybe 5 minutes per housing.
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Once your through the black plastic all the way around, take a screwdriver and carefully pry the lense off.
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Then swap out the lamps (duh)
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I probably should have used RTV or some sort of automotive silicone but I had some of the clear kitchen and bath kind around so I just used that. Put a thin bead around the outer edge of the lense.
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Snap the lense back on the housing and take your finger and wipe the excess silicone off.
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Then take something kinda heavy (I used a trailer hitch) and keep pressure on the housings like this
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Let it sit like this for at least 24hrs

Hopefully this "How-to" will encourage you to do this very easy modification along with the rest of the lights on your truck.

I'd like to buy a set of those lights but your website wants to make changes to my computer. You need to change some stuff to make it simpler.

Your email does the same thing. It wants to run a new program on my computer and asks if I trust the site. How can I trust it when I don't know it?

Great write up. Just did this tonight, followed it step by step and they turned out great. Waiting for silicon to dry and I'll have them in by tomorrow

Yeah, nice job man! This was very simple. The clear lens pretty much popped away from the black housing once you got about 80% sawed around the housing. Even used the trailor hitch as a weight lol.

Dont see how someone would pay $80 for this mod with some companys :whistling2: when you can do it yourself for $4.00 :thumbsup:

Very Nice job :thumbsup:

Finished product!

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Looks Great!

What wires did yall connect it too? Also how did yall make the hole in the mirror?

Looks great guys