Poison Spyder Bumper Lighting
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JK Newbie
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From: State College, PA
Poison Spyder Bumper Lighting
What’s up guys, long time reader but first time poster. I’m excited to learn and talk with you guys.
I’ve recently starting building up my JK. I decided to go with the poison spyder bruiser bumper. I need some help with the fog lights.
As far as I could tell it is made to use with 3 inch cube lights. I order some KC hilites c3 LED’s. These don’t plug into my factory fog light wiring harness. I’m going to keep them and mount them on my a-pillar eventually.
My question is, what lights can I use for the fog lights? I need 3 inch cube, I need them to mount on the bumper and I need them to plug into the fog (or an adapter that plugs into the fog light wiring).m
i have some good headlights (JW speaker and love them) and now some a-pillar lights so they don’t need to be too pricey as I’m pretty much only on road driving at night.
Thanks a ton! Would love some links. “Buy this and it will work” I’m new to this so I need all the help I can get!
I’ve recently starting building up my JK. I decided to go with the poison spyder bruiser bumper. I need some help with the fog lights.
As far as I could tell it is made to use with 3 inch cube lights. I order some KC hilites c3 LED’s. These don’t plug into my factory fog light wiring harness. I’m going to keep them and mount them on my a-pillar eventually.
My question is, what lights can I use for the fog lights? I need 3 inch cube, I need them to mount on the bumper and I need them to plug into the fog (or an adapter that plugs into the fog light wiring).m
i have some good headlights (JW speaker and love them) and now some a-pillar lights so they don’t need to be too pricey as I’m pretty much only on road driving at night.
Thanks a ton! Would love some links. “Buy this and it will work” I’m new to this so I need all the help I can get!
JK Freak
Joined: Mar 2015
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From: McLean, VA
Hey buddy,
What you can do is cut the connectors from your old fog lights and use those with your new pods. Or you can do what I did: cut the factory connectors off entirely and use new connectors (butt connectors, solder, male/female, etc). You're not going to find pods out there that use the factory plastic connectors. Another alternative is just using T-Taps...but I wouldn't recommend it.
What you can do is cut the connectors from your old fog lights and use those with your new pods. Or you can do what I did: cut the factory connectors off entirely and use new connectors (butt connectors, solder, male/female, etc). You're not going to find pods out there that use the factory plastic connectors. Another alternative is just using T-Taps...but I wouldn't recommend it.
JK Jedi
Joined: Jun 2013
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From: Willow Park, TX
Bora Bora - did you use a resister with those? I recall loooong ago I had some LED cubes hooked to the factory fog harness. I got tired of the flickering.
Agree though, you're not going to find an aftermarket light that has the factory harness. Most of them are either coming with their own type of harness, or bare wires (cheaper ones). The CANbus is usually not your friend when it comes to LEDs without a resister in the loop. At least it's not on my 2013.
Agree though, you're not going to find an aftermarket light that has the factory harness. Most of them are either coming with their own type of harness, or bare wires (cheaper ones). The CANbus is usually not your friend when it comes to LEDs without a resister in the loop. At least it's not on my 2013.
JK Freak
Joined: Mar 2015
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From: McLean, VA
Nope, mine don't flicker at all... surprisingly 
My Trucklite headlights definitely needed the canbus though. My LED taillights (corners) also needed 5 ohm resistors. Pods on the factory fog light wiring harness didn't need any, even though I was prepared to wire in some resistors.
My Trucklite headlights definitely needed the canbus though. My LED taillights (corners) also needed 5 ohm resistors. Pods on the factory fog light wiring harness didn't need any, even though I was prepared to wire in some resistors.
JK Jedi
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 11,363
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From: Willow Park, TX
Seems there were tweaks to the CANbus along the way. Mine is a '13 and they didn't like the factory harness. Also though, I couldn't get LED dome lights to work in the interior without all sorts of weird things going on like them forcing my mirror map lights on constantly even though I was using the exact same bulbs my buddies with '14's and '15's were using with no issues at all. Guess you guys got lucky.