What did you do TO your Jeep JL today?

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Put on pixeldecals visor stickers over the safety stickers.
Installed reverse lights on top of bumper and wired to Aux 4 switch. Fourth picture is stock reverse lights, fifth stock plus new lights. They are $16 LED lights I had off another vehicle.

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Aren't the Rubicon Stickers going to be upside down if you use the sun visors?
 

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Added some gecko paracord to the handles, a little axe to the rear gate, alien shade..

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Nice looking Jeep.

Deets on the axe please. Also, where'd ya get the black decal around the vent on the side of your Jeep?
 

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How hard was it to work with the carriage bolt removal/light install and running the wires? I’m putting pod lights on mine this weekend (I hope). Where did you run the wires?
Right now they are held on with magnets. When it warms up I will mount them with double sided tape. Have them same on my JK for six years, one with magnet and one with tape.
i connected both sets of wires together and the connected ground to a bolt on underside of bumper. Wires tucked up behind muffler heat shield (I don 't have a muffler). Ran the power wire from aux 4 wire in engine compartment down along inner fender, thru the frame rail to the back bumper and connected it to the positive wire from the lights. I used long wire tires to fish the wire thru the frame rail.
 

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Right now they are held on with magnets. When it warms up I will mount them with double sided tape. Have them same on my JK for six years, one with magnet and one with tape.
i connected both sets of wires together and the connected ground to a bolt on underside of bumper. Wires tucked up behind muffler heat shield (I don 't have a muffler). Ran the power wire from aux 4 wire in engine compartment down along inner fender, thru the frame rail to the back bumper and connected it to the positive wire from the lights. I used long wire tires to fish the wire thru the frame rail.
I got an hour of free time earlier and got the lights mounted. Getting the carriage bolts out was a pain in the ass. Thankfully I had an elbow extension for my cordless impact wrench. Your mounting method is pretty cool but I feel better with a bolt in the bumper, haha.

If it isn’t too much to ask, can you post a pic of the ground? There’s a lot of bolts. I’d love to see what you picked.

I’m thinking of running the positive up the frame rail as well. The only thing I can’t see right now is where it goes from the frame rail up to the battery compartment. I’d like to run it up the right (fender) side of the battery right to the AUX wires rather than the left (engine side). Just need a clearer view. It just started raining so wiring is going to have to wait a bit
 

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I got an hour of free time earlier and got the lights mounted. Getting the carriage bolts out was a pain in the ass. Thankfully I had an elbow extension for my cordless impact wrench. Your mounting method is pretty cool but I feel better with a bolt in the bumper, haha.

If it isn’t too much to ask, can you post a pic of the ground? There’s a lot of bolts. I’d love to see what you picked.

I’m thinking of running the positive up the frame rail as well. The only thing I can’t see right now is where it goes from the frame rail up to the battery compartment. I’d like to run it up the right (fender) side of the battery right to the AUX wires rather than the left (engine side). Just need a clearer view. It just started raining so wiring is going to have to wait a bit
I chose the small one near the tow hook. I need to get some heat reflective tape to cover the gorilla tape but that will need to wait until next week because we have ice now and a blizzard starting in a couple of hours.
I put a work light underneath the engine compartment where the battery is and looked down to see a slender opening where the wire could go. I ran a long zip tie up from underneath next to the inner fender where I could see light from above.
 

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Upgraded from the 5.3” to the 7”. 50 times better!

Just have to go to dealership on Monday for appt to add to VIN and update uConnect 4 updates. They are giving me another 12 months free satellite radio again too haha!

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Sorry my wife texted me while I was taking the photo lol

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Sorry my wife texted me while I was taking the photo lol

All credit to her for making for making that an unintentionally funny Kodak moment. ;)
 

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Some old, some new:

Last weekend:

Rubicon springs, shocks, RC correction pads
About 3/4 to 1”. I have Teraflex .5” leveling kit, may still install. Those are Quadratec HardRock 17” wheels in Gunmetal. 33” BFG KO2s

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Older

Steel bumper, Quadratec 10k stealth winch, winch guard, bumper mounted LED Offroad lights Aux3. Cascadia license plate mount


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Alpine underseat amp, level control mounted in cubby. Install straight forward, plug and play. Box on right side cubby is radar remote (hardwired)

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Uniden Radar an Blackvue hardwired Aux1 and Aux2
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Upgraded from the 5.3” to the 7”. 50 times better!

Just have to go to dealership on Monday for appt to add to VIN and update uConnect 4 updates. They are giving me another 12 months free satellite radio again too haha!

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Sorry my wife texted me while I was taking the photo lol

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Can't believe you were rolling like that. #toughlife lol
 
 
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