Brush guard/aux light setups.

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Panzerknacker

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Yeah, cool thanks!

Did the lights come with a wiring harness? Was is difficult? Can you post a pic of where you posted the switch inside Thanks

The lights did come with a wiring harness... I havent hooked them up yet.
 

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To install the brush bar I used a 1.25" hole saw, measured down, and cut the hole. Must have been lucky, as it was right on.

I used the OEM light mount brackets on the brush bar and mounts from the bottom of OEM foglights to mount these Bosch fog lights. They came with the covers, but I made the LR badge. Those lights also came with wiring harness and lighted switch.

I love the square look! Matches the look of the car.

BJ
 

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Im thinking tomorrow I will get on it. Just changed all the bulbs in the headlight assembly and I am feeling ambitious.
 

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its finally installed

Well after a minor mishap with a nut...(I started an entirely new thread called brush in with brush bar... see for details) it's finally on. I took forum advice (thank you) and drilled a little lower than recommended. it worked out great. I believe I drilled down 80 MM. I hope you can see by the photos that the hole around the long bolt and spacer turned out as clean as you could expect for cutting a 1.25" dia hole into the plastic bumper cover. that wasn't the hard part, I had issues with the nut that is tack welded inside the bumper, came off. what a nightmare. on the instruction booklet step #4 directs you to keep a 20MM gap in order to easily slide the bar onto it, but that did not leave the bolt threaded onto the nut very much. as I pulled the par down to attach the bottom (due to a snug fit) the welded nut sheared off. My recommendation would be to screw the long bolt in farther than the directions recommend because getting a new nut in there was a HUGE pain in the ... anyways, all done and here are some photos. thank you to all who gave advice.
 

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I slightly cheated. I already had a 1.5in hole saw (38mm) so I just used it instead of buying a new one. Driver side hole I hit dead on, passenger was just a lil off center not exactly sure how, but it went on no issues. I meased the exact 70mm/2.75in and no problem. I did what you did, tried the 20mm gap first, took it off then tightend it some more and was ok. Thing is on there like a rock. I drilled the holes, test mounted, washed it, put it all back on. Just need lights now!
 

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Glad you were able to get it on there Krizza... Looks like I made an oops and forgot to take off the cover for my front recovery loop before installing lol.
 

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that stupid plastic thing! I took it off because the guard was too tight to get the bolts through with it on, besides I did want to get at the hook. I am looking at replacing it with a metal one anyways.
 

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I don't have my good pictures on me right now, but I bought the "Driving Light" accessory from the dealer. I had the wires run and had the dumb plastic lights mounted on the front. Once I had the car back, I cut the wires to the driving lights. Bought some Hella 5000s for mounting on the A-bar.

The mounting for the Hellas was a bit difficult though. I had a friend with a machine shop and we created small aluminum blocks to bolt into the A-bar with pre-drilled holes for the Hellas. Once said and done, all was perfect including the road lighting too. I'll try to get a better picture here sooner or later, but you get the gist.

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