Reviews for Overtread 19052 Front Fender Air Vent LED Lights for 18-20 Jeep Wrangler JL & 2020 Gladiator JT
Installed these as running lights on my 2023 Sahara. Mated these with Oracle Sidetrack Lighting (97009-9032) which added turn signals and white courtesy lights. I am totally happy ind impressed with how they look and function together. I hired a shop to install them using relays to make sure I did not stress any OEM wiring loads.
Kudos to Matt W. on the insights and suggestion on installing these lights. Took me some time as I did go with the Quadratec DRL Adapter and the Diode Dynamics LED PWM Dimmers. The vent lights were easy to install, the electrical was a little more challenging. The Diode Dynamics Dimmers need a bit of quality control during assembly as I found the solder job to be a little sub par and had to be redone. I replace the the wiring with 18 ga as it appeared that they came with 20 ga. One of the wires passed underneath which kept the unit from attaching itself to the housing. I just ran the wire on top which solved that issue. Overall, lights work great and like I said, were easy to install and definitely benefit from the added DRL harness and LED dimmers.
Simple to install and low cost!
Purchased this for my Sahara love them
The safety
Props to Matt W. For an excellent review of this install. You made it so much easier with the details you provided. Thanks! My 392 looks way cooler now!
We love these Air Vent LEDs, absolutely no issues whatsoever with "hood flutter as some has speculated.
However, couple important notes about installation:
1. These lights do not come with instructions and highly recommend you have a decent level of electrical competency (i.e. how to make proper connections, how to read a wiring diagram and trace wires).
2. Recommend finding the DRL circuit wiring diagram on JLWranglerforums.com.
3. Connecting these LEDs directly to the DRL wiring harness proved to be WAY TOO bright for normal operation and did not match (far exceeded) the brightness of the OEM LEDs on our Sahara.
4. Purchased the Quadratec Daytime Running Light DRL Adapter Wiring Harness to connect flawlessly to the DRL circuit. Highly recommended.
5. Purchased 20'+ packs of 16ga red and black wire, waterproof heat shrink wrap, waterproof 16ga connectors, 1/4" 16ga ring terminal for the ground wires, dielectric grease, wire loom, cable ties, and cable tie mounting bases from a local hardware store to make the installation look factory.
6. Purchased a pair of Diode Dynamics 2A LED PWM Dimmer with Bypass harnesses ($20) directly from Diode Dynamics. Highly recommended. These harnesses served two functions: A) Allowed me to dim the Air Vent LEDs to a brightness level that matched our OEM LEDs and B) the "bypass" wire allowed me to hook them up to the "full brightness" turn-signal wiring circuit.
7. At the very least you will need to remove the front inner fender liners and to do so you'll need to pop out the black plastic rivets that hold the inner fender liners to the front fenders. They can be easily popped out by using a small screwdriver or pick tool to push the center rivet mandrel through and then pulling the rivet body out of the hole. Recommend purchasing a poly hand riveter set from Harbor Freight $17 and about 16 spare rivets (#665-2840) from NAPA Auto. Also, pick up a fork-type trim panel pry tool to pull out the plastic push rivets that hold on the rest of the inner fender liners.
8. If you decide to take the front fenders completely off, highly recommend purchasing about 20 replacement fender clips here on Quadratec as well. Alternatively, you can buy Dorman retainer clips (#963-207) from somewhere like O'Reillys Auto.
9. Picking up everything PRIOR to attempting installation makes life 1000x easier.
Nice look & something you just won't see on evey other Wrangler. Wired mine to the auxiliary switch bank. Used switches 1 & 3, but where to tap in to the electrical system is a matter of choice . .
Used the Quadratec Daytime Running Light DRL Adapter Wiring Harness to install. Very easy and looks great.
Great looking lights easy to install very bright!