I installed these lights, finally, over the weekend.
I purchased the brackets from Wildyoats and had quick shipping on them. The lights i purchased off amazon almost a year ago. They have been sitting on the shelf just waiting.
The install is really not too bad. I used a combination of a cut-off wheel and a sawzall to cut opening wider to fit the bracket.
The only thing that i found to take extra time and that should be noted, on my ARB (don't know if it's an old design or what) but there is a lip around the turn signals. So, when you cut open the area to fit the brackets, there is still a small lip on the inside of the bumper. This lip will cause the bolts to almost not thread down until you grind down the lip to make the back flush. So keep that in mind. Also, the small tabs on the side that secured the turn signals also need to be ground off.
The ONLY thing i would suggest wildyoats do to the bracket is space the mounting holes just a tad further out. What i found is that the holes were so close to the edge of the metal that there wasn't much material left for the bolts/nuts to fasten to.
Other than that, the fit and finish is great.
Now comes the wiring part.....
I didn't want the lights to be on every time i started the truck, so i decided to wire a switch in line to cut the power to them. This works great. What i did was take the + red power line from the box and run it all the way to the switch in the dash to the power pole. Then on the ground on the switch i ran it all the way to the + on the battery. Then, the black - on the black box i ran to the negative on the battery.
They are bright and show up fantastic when driving down the road. They are literally almost as bright as my low beam headlights. Pretty impressive.
THE BAD:
Now comes the one bad thing... the damn things flash! I was puzzled as to what was going on. They would be on while the truck was running and then all of a sudden after a few minutes start intermittently flashing. I thought i had wired them wrong. After a google search i read several reviews on amazon that others had the same issue. Apparently the little black "driver box" is very sensitive to current. The review says that Philips will send you a replacement box if your lights are flashing and that it should fix the problem. I called them this morning and explained what happened and about the review. We will see if they send me a replacement box.
For now, the lights are in but i can't really run them since they flash.
