so finally im making a writeup to show how to set up some L.E.D. strips to act as 3rd brake lights.








its fairly simple, just requires a soldering iron, heat shrink, and a screw driver.

first take off the driver side rear interior panels behind where the spare tire fits to get to all the wires behind the interior panel



also the pillar cover.



and rear cross cover.



run your wires down through the pillar.





I put the led strips between the glass and the weatherstripping...so it just squezes into the space and holds there.





then cut the driverside wire shorter and solder the right and left and wire run down the pillar together and heat shrink them.






now that the top of them are all soldered and wired up your gonna move down to behind the brake light. find the white wire going to the brake light. splice the white wire to the red



then find the black wire coming from the brake light and solder the led wire to that.






now everything should be all wired up. hit the brakes and see what happens!!!! make sure everything is either taped or heat shrunk. you could also use crimp on connectors but im not a big fan of them.

time to put all the panels back on. make sure that where the wires come out from the cross beam cover, they dont get pinched really bad. i reccomend putting tape or heat shrink around the wire for extra protection from teh metal. also be carefull that you dont put a screw right through the wires.






like i said...this is a fairly easy mod. and its deffiniatly worth the 20$ that the led strips cost

 

sweet thanks i have a few red led strips laying around in the garage im gonna do this

 

nice man. post some pics!

 

feel free to move to technical write up if it would be a better fit.

 

do you think it would be easier for me to just splice into the third brake light already on my hatch? Since mine is an 00 ive got a light on the hatch already, but i really like this and i think you can never have enough brake lights haha, its the difference between liking the way the back of your jeep looks the way it is or having it crushed

 

yea man. youll be able to splice into that. it will probably be easier too. and yea. i agree with the brake lights. id rather have people think its ridiculous instead of hitting me.

 

yeah thats what i was thinking since all the wires are already in the hatch and the two wires i need are already there, where did you get the strips from? i know autozone sells those red accent strips, is that what you got?

 

um. i think i did. their about a foot long...maybe alittle longer. sticky tape on one side. that might be it

 

yep thats exactly it, walmart sells them but for some reason they only carry white and blue, autozone has the red ones