I ordered the harness and emblem so I’m gonna plug it in first before I do anything. Maybe his harness was just defective. I’ll post here to let you guys know what happens. But either way I think the wires will have to be extended because the harness was originally designed for an ice f-150.
It will definitely need to be extended. My understanding is it plugs into the right headlight. You'll need to extend it back to the fuse box and then up into the frunk lid running forward to the grill. In the Q&A on the Putco site, they say the emblem comes on with the DRLs. That's also odd to me, because then the emblem would go off when the headlights come on and the DRLs go off.
FYI, 6500K and 4000K are measures of the temperature of the light (i.e. the color), and not brightness. They both appear to be 6500K in the videos I've seen, as that temperature is considered to be "cool white", while 4000K is warmer (i.e. more yellow), like an incandescent bulb.
so with the harness you don’t need to go to the fuse box. Also I think it works on either headlight. My plan is to plug it into the drivers side headlight. There is a rubber housing on that side that goes from the frunk to the hood so I might be able to fish my wires through that for a cleaner install. I will post back here with results. I’ll take pictures as well. Everything is coming this week so most likely I’ll get it installed this weekend.
Yes. I meant back near the fuse box, just to get it up into the frunk lid. Now, I did see a Q&A on the Putco site that said it has to be plugged into the driver's side headlight. I wish Putco would publish their installation sheets for these things so they could be reviewed prior to order.
ya they aren’t good like that. Plus when you call and ask questions they don’t even know. They told be the harness wouldn’t work, saying the lightning uses a different headlight harness lol. Also they don’t ever plan on coming out with a harness for our trucks as they say it’s not worth it for them to make it.
The original ICE F150 harness is what you end up with. The Pinout is different. Martin explains how to tap different wires because on the lightning, those are the ones used for power.
I’ve installed the emblem. I will do a write up in the next couple weeks. So you do have to swap out the wires on the harness. Using the harness is a lot cleaner than the fuse box. As well I will be adding the camera washer back and the parts guy found me all the parts I would need. The most important part though is the hose which I would rather a factory one then parts slapped together at Home Depot. This is the house part number if anyone is interested. I’ll post the rest of the part numbers when I do my write up.
