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anybody change the 3 lights in the truckbed yet? or know if its even possible?
I'm sure it's possible. I can attest from personal experience the SC has the best/brightest OOTB bed lighting I've seen and many others have stated the same.anybody change the 3 lights in the truckbed yet? or know if its even possible?
I just wanted to change it to a dif color lolI'm sure it's possible. I can attest from personal experience the SC has the best/brightest OOTB bed lighting I've seen and many others have stated the same.
What kind of lighting exactly do you need back there?
I noticed that last night. Those bulbs put out a lot of very bright white LED light. Kudos to Hyundai on the color and brightness. But I'm going to keep zonking them for not integrating them with the tailgate.I'm sure it's possible. I can attest from personal experience the SC has the best/brightest OOTB bed lighting I've seen and many others have stated the same.
If you had to haul something that required the tailgate to be down, such as when using the bed extender, would the lights just stay on and blind drivers behind you? I assume they can be overridden ... ?I noticed that last night. Those bulbs put out a lot of very bright white LED light. Kudos to Hyundai on the color and brightness. But I'm going to keep zonking them for not integrating them with the tailgate.
The bed lights on the Ram turned off after a few minutes. If you wanted to turn them back on, you had to shut the tailgate and put it back down.If you had to haul something that required the tailgate to be down, such as when using the bed extender, would the lights just stay on and blind drivers behind you? I assume they can be overridden ... ?
This is my theory as to why the bed lights aren't triggered by the tail gate. Having them turn off in drive is the obvious solution. I bet the bean counters factored in the cost of yet another circuit and killed that idea.it is illegal to drive with a white light directly visible behind you.
Yep, sort of - the bed lights turn off under a few conditions:If the bed lights are on, will they go out when you put the truck in 'Drive'?
And, while you're at it, this switch could also be used to provide an alert to the driver that the dreaded Santa Cruz Poltergeist had sneaked aboard and opened the tailgate!... it would be just about as easy to make that switch actuated by the tailgate opening. Maybe even something like an alarm pin switch you'd use for a hood open detection would work if it's a simple ground. A magnetic reed switch could do the trick too.
Agreed -- I would prefer that the lights turn on at least if the door-unlock button is pressed.I agree that not having a switch other than opening the brunk or going into the cab is short-sighted. Every time I want the bed lights on so far, I've been unloading stuff from the bed - NOT the brunk. And I usually get there after I'm a) out of the cab and b) already locked the doors. Then I have to go back around the truck, unlock the doors, pop the button, do what I wanted to do, then make another trip back once I've unloaded just to turn off the lights and re-lock the doors. A simple switch in the bed would completely solve that. Yes, I know there's like a 5 minute timer to turn it off automatically, but I hate leaving lights on after I leave the vehicle. Especially in winter around here. But I'm also not doing anything that could potentially void my warranty like splicing into wiring harnesses either. We'll see what I think after 200,000km.![]()