gaterose
4️⃣ Gold
- Messages
- 59
- Reaction score
- 130
- Location
- San Antonio
- First Name
- Matt
- Truck Year
- 2017
- Truck Color
- Blazing Blue Pearl
- Truck Grade
- Off-Road
- Cab & Bed
- Double Cab, Short Bed
- Transmission
- Automatic
- T3G Member
- #361
Recently ordered some turn signals from eBay to see how they opened up. Pretty easy actually, just used a razor knife to cut through the epoxy all the way around the perimeter.
I initially used a 4" generic strip that I found on eBay and was very disappointed in the brightness after adding 2 coats of Nite-Shades
You can see how dim the signal came out -
So after I installed them I decided to split the OEM signals. Stripped the chrome with Easy Off...
Decided the strip showed through too much so I repainted the chrome area black (from the inside)
Once I powered the light up I realized these strips were way brighter. Since I didn't like the white showing through, I went ahead and put a single coat of Nite-Shades on.
Sorry no pictures of the wiring, I cut the OEM connector from the signal and used that for ground and turn signal, picked up a pink wire in the window switch harness for DRL signal, and the teal illumination wire in the switch for low power DRL.


I initially used a 4" generic strip that I found on eBay and was very disappointed in the brightness after adding 2 coats of Nite-Shades

You can see how dim the signal came out -
So after I installed them I decided to split the OEM signals. Stripped the chrome with Easy Off...

Decided the strip showed through too much so I repainted the chrome area black (from the inside)

Once I powered the light up I realized these strips were way brighter. Since I didn't like the white showing through, I went ahead and put a single coat of Nite-Shades on.



Sorry no pictures of the wiring, I cut the OEM connector from the signal and used that for ground and turn signal, picked up a pink wire in the window switch harness for DRL signal, and the teal illumination wire in the switch for low power DRL.