I am looking for ideas for mounting rear lights on my JKU. These lights are for more light when backing up, work light, light for hooking up a trailer in the dark, etc. FYI - I have the factory rear bumper and spare.

- I've looked at the Rigid rear tail light mounts as an option, but would like some more ideas. If you have these please let me know how you like them?

- Anybody ever use this? Rugged Ridge 11217.02 - Rugged Ridge Spare Tire Light Mount - Quadratec You can have the license plate piece there or not. Could leave the license plate piece off and make a simple cross bar to mount light onto. Thoughts?

I've searched through a lot of forum posts. Just looking for some more ideas. Is there other light mounts available? Mounts for other things that could be used for mounting lights?

Thanks.

 

I used a CB antenna mount from Arizona Rocky road. Works perfectly with my Rigid light. I did add a cross bar because it does shake a bit.

 

I did this a few months ago. One of my favorite mods; it's slick, works very well, and easy to do. Not inexpensive, but worth it in my opionion.

 

These look like a real nice addition! Definitely on my 'must do' list

 

On your wiring for these, if I wanted to be able to switch them as well. Could I just use a splice to connect the new lights harness to the existing wiring and continue on with the new wire harness up to my sPod?

 

I'd imagine you could tap a live wire with a fuse, relay, and switch to the positive wire. I'm not too much of an electrician; maybe someone here could chime in with a quick schematic to do it without blowing anything up. I'd be interested in tapping in a separate switch.

 

Took a few pics

 

What bracket did you use? Is this something you fab'ed up yourself? Looks good.

 

Unfortunately this will not work. The lights on the JK are controlled via CANBUS. (Not a 12V hot, but rather a pulsing square-wave that has an RMS voltage near 12V. Taping the hot can cause a CANBUS fault and will cause relay chatter. If you tap the hot you will need a diode and cap on the relay to keep the relay from chattering and protect the CANBUS circuit.


Edit: I will draw a diagram of the circuit and parts you will need as soon as I can and post it here.

 

I run rear bumper-less, so I just mounted LED lights on the cross-member. (NOTE: I have them wired with the protection I mentioned above so they can be manually turned on or they turn on automatically when I go in reverse.) These things will give you a tan