What did you do to your AT4 today?

[pinebaron]

My 2500HD AEV must be different and here lights can be installed in the gap to the right/left of tow hooks since there's ready space available; mine was a little challeging following winch install, however I was prepared and it looks about as perfect as it can be. As stated earlier, I finished the install and need to put a couple of cosmetic touches to it before publishing pics. Very little light if at all is blocked by the tow hooks, don't even notice it. View attachment 8549

Finished Front Fog Lamps installation yesterday; took a few daytime pics today. Fog Lamps are independently controlled via voice commands using steering wheel voice command button
With Backlight switched on

Main Switched on

All off

 

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[Johnv76]

Finished Front Fog Lamps installatioon yesterday; took a few daytime pics today.
With Backlight switched on
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Main Switched on
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All off
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Looks awesome man. Good job. Just bought ditch light mounts, and aux beam switch panel. Lol should have my lights installed in a week or so. Ohhh also bought new led license plate lights and reverse light from diode dynamics lol. 90k truck doesnt come with white led lights, who would have thought.

 

[bookemdanno]

Looks good Pinebaron...almost OEM.

 

[Whaler27]

Finished Front Fog Lamps installation yesterday; took a few daytime pics today. Fog Lamps are independently controlled via voice commands using steering wheel voice command button
With Backlight switched on
View attachment 8574
Main Switched on
View attachment 8575
All off
View attachment 8577

Looks great! I have lots of questions…

Are they mounted in the proper orientation? It looks like they were mounted vertically, but are usually shown mounted horizontally? I know their light pattern is supposed to be flat and wide, so a 90 degree rotation in mounting would create two vertical light beams in the eyes of oncoming traffic, right?

Do they extend about an inch past the face of the bumper?

Did you have to dremel the plastic around the opening to create space?

Did the bumper have to come off to get at the back of the mounts?

What was the most difficult part of the installation and how did you deal with it?

I bought the Auxbeam switch panel, but it’s still in the box. I’m leaning hard toward the Garmin switching system now, but I haven’t figured a sanitary way to mount the panel inside the cab. I’m planning to do a single installation marathon, so everything has to be torn up and out of the truck only once. I plan to install a couple 12 volt outlets at the same time, as we have a handful of 12 volt accessories we don’t want to permanently hard-wire: (Dometic fridge, Streamlight, Spotlight, and radio. I’m leaning toward using marine mounts on the back of the center console, but I don’t know how much room there is behind all the plastic. That decision and others will have to await tearing the truck apart. I suspect I’ll also have to fab up some kind of supporting brackets, as the plastic won’t be strong enough to tolerate pushing and pulling as accessories are plugged in and removed. The more I work to engineer all of these fixes the more pissed I get at GM for not equipping the truck from the factory. Adding clean looking, convenient 12 volt accessory ports is a $2 task at the factory, but it’s a great big pain in the ass after the fact. Thanks GM.)

It is odd that the market research done by every other manufacturer points them toward adding more cup-holders, switches, and power outlets, but, somehow, GM’s research points them in the opposite direction. GM must be polling different people? Europeans maybe?

 

[pinebaron]

Looks great! I have lots of questions…

Are they mounted in the proper orientation? It looks like they were mounted vertically, but are usually shown mounted horizontally? I know their light pattern is supposed to be flat and wide, so a 90 degree rotation in mounting would create two vertical light beams in the eyes of oncoming traffic, right?

Beams are set to Horizontal pattern.

Do they extend about an inch past the face of the bumper?
Not quite

Did you have to dremel the plastic around the opening to create space?

Nope

Did the bumper have to come off to get at the back of the mounts?

Nope

What was the most difficult part of the installation and how did you deal with it?

Nothing really or everything really, just needs lots of patience to get it done right.

I bought the Auxbeam switch panel, but it’s still in the box. I’m leaning hard toward the Garmin switching system now, but I haven’t figured a sanitary way to mount the panel inside the cab. I’m planning to do a single installation marathon, so everything has to be torn up and out of the truck only once. I plan to install a couple 12 volt outlets at the same time, as we have a handful of 12 volt accessories we don’t want to permanently hard-wire: (Dometic fridge, Streamlight, Spotlight, and radio. I’m leaning toward using marine mounts on the back of the center console, but I don’t know how much room there is behind all the plastic. That decision and others will have to await tearing the truck apart. I suspect I’ll also have to fab up some kind of supporting brackets, as the plastic won’t be strong enough to tolerate pushing and pulling as accessories are plugged in and removed. The more I work to engineer all of these fixes the more pissed I get at GM for not equipping the truck from the factory. Adding clean looking, convenient 12 volt accessory ports is a $2 task at the factory, but it’s a great big pain in the ass after the fact. Thanks GM.)

There is not much space under the hood for brackets and all, I think Steely Dan fabricated something.

It is odd that the market research done by every other manufacturer points them toward adding more cup-holders, switches, and power outlets, but, somehow, GM’s research points them in the opposite direction. GM must be polling different people? Europeans maybe?

Today I’ll tackle comparatively simpler rear bumper lights.

 

[Whaler27]

Beams are set to Horizontal pattern.



Nope

Nope

Nothing really or everything really, just needs lots of patience to get it done right.


There is not much space under the hood for brackets and all, I think Steely Dan fabricated something.

Today I’ll tackle comparatively simpler rear bumper lights.

Thanks!

I’m going to order the Garmin switch and the new fogs today…

My wife assumed this truck was so well equipped I wouldn’t have to add much except the tonneau cover and a second set of tires for winter (studded Duratracs). I assumed the same, though I figured I’d probably add the winch.

I just tallied the post-purchase additions to date. I’m at $12,810 in parts. That doesn’t include the rack and overland stuff I moved over from the other pickup. I think I should be done at about $14,000 in parts…

It sure is expensive to build a truck these days. I suspect this will be my last truck, so there’s that.

 

[pinebaron]

Thanks!

I’m going to order the Garmin switch and the new fogs today…

My wife assumed this truck was so well equipped I wouldn’t have to add much except the tonneau cover and a second set of tires for winter (studded Duratracs). I assumed the same, though I figured I’d probably add the winch.

I just tallied the post-purchase additions to date. I’m at $12,810 in parts. That doesn’t include the rack and overland stuff I moved over from the other pickup. I think I should be done at about $14,000 in parts…

It sure is expensive to build a truck these days. I suspect this will be my last truck, so there’s that.

Who’s counting; I pile truck bills in the truck bills folder. I overpaid for the truck to be one of the first anyway and the list of add-ons keeps growing.

 

[pinebaron]

Followup from my Front Fogs install, three ways to switch each light; from phone app, voice command (does not need CarPlay or Phone) or from the dash screen (needs CarPlay and Phone, just finished programming, I may change the look later). I set onscreen Icon Actions as such that when each icon switches on/off and it also switches the other one off; like a three way switch. Say MainFogs are on and I click on BacklightFogs, it turns BacklighFogs on and at the same time switches MainFogs Off. I'll soon have rear fog switch Icon here once I install them.

Fog lamps are perfectly aligned, the right may be a hair below but that's good for oncoming cars and these are not long range driving ones but perfect for real foggy conditions here and in BC during winter. Excuse the mess with tools, I'm still working on stuff.

 

[Whaler27]

Looks like a surgical suite compared to my shop. I have truck, jeep, motorcycle, and boat parts wall to wall. I clean and organize about 4 or 6 times per year, but it’s impossible to stay orderly when you’re trying to hold ten pounds of stuff in your five pound box.

 

[pinebaron]

Looks like a surgical suite compared to my shop. I have truck, jeep, motorcycle, and boat parts wall to wall. I clean and organize about 4 or 6 times per year, but it’s impossible to stay orderly when you’re trying to hold ten pounds of stuff in your five pound box.

I have the opposite problem. Too much space and this space is only the front garages which is usually tool free. My actual shop, is the next garages behind this one and one even further behind, are full of my other hobbies; it’s shameful but it needs a huge reorg.
I’m too busy playing around with the next best thing and haven’t got around to it. The home on the other hand is absolutely spotless and I do clean and mop that, clean twice a week and mop every other or third week.

 

[pinebaron]

Rear fogs are physically installed, now going to commence wiring and switches etc

I found primary power at the rear and trigger voltage when parking lights are on; this will permit fog lamp control circuit to operate only when parking lights are on and will kill the fogs even if left on when exiting the vehicle and turning parking lights off. I ordered some new wire taps, arrving Monday, wiring will have to wait until Tuesday and won't be driving the truck until after its done.

 

[bobholthaus]

Beams are set to Horizontal pattern.



Nope

Nope

Nothing really or everything really, just needs lots of patience to get it done right.


There is not much space under the hood for brackets and all, I think Steely Dan fabricated something.

Today I’ll tackle comparatively simpler rear bumper lights.

Pine Baron: do you have a separate build thread for your front lights? I would really like more details on how your secured the lights, etc. Thank you.

 

[pinebaron]

Pine Baron: do you have a separate build thread for your front lights? I would really like more details on how your secured the lights, etc. Thank you.

Sorry no build thread.

 

[Johnv76]

Pine Baron: do you have a separate build thread for your front lights? I would really like more details on how your secured the lights, etc. Thank you.

Is your aev a 1500 or a 2500?

 

[bobholthaus]

Is your aev a 1500 or a 2500?

1500. Sorry, I should have listed that. Is the 2500 much different from the 1500, or is it the same bumper?