Introduction
Product Overview
Installing your wheel lights
Troubleshooting
Maintenance and Care
Warranty Information
So, you've just bought a set of CZ Mods wheel lights, where do you go from here? We highly recommend professional installation. However, this guide should be able to help anyone to install these wheel lights. Please be sure to read through these instructions at least once before beginning the install process.
These wheel lights are a 12v wheel light set. The box should include:
4x wheel lights
Wiring harness
Extra wire and connectors
Screws and zipties
Sunglasses and stickers
Let's go through the steps for installing your wheel lights.
Jack up your truck and remove a wheel. It does not matter which wheel you start with, however, you may want to take note of the orientation of the wheel light for each wheel.
Note: We have 2 of our wheel lights assembled in one orientation, and the other 2 assembled in the opposite orientation. This is to help with cleaner wire management, so you may want to take note of which wheel light goes where for the cleanest look.
Slide the wheel light over the dust guard. Every truck is different, so this may take some finessing to get all three brackets over the dust guard.
Note: Make sure the brackets are behind the dust guard, and not in between the guard and the brake disc.
Orienting the wheel light. You want orient the wheel light to have the connector on top, with all three brackets touching the dust guard.
Note: This is why taking note of which light you use is important. It could end up where you have to have the connector on the bottom in order to have the brackets on the correct side, so make sure you pay attention!
Attaching the brackets to the dust guard. This is the tricky part. Make sure the wheel light is positioned correctly. Align your brackets, and screw through the brackets with the included self drilling screws. You want to screw in from behind the wheel light, through the bracket, into the dust guard. Again, all trucks are different, so it may not be possible to screw in from the back. In this case, you can try to screw in through the front, through the dust guard into the bracket.
Note: Depending on when you received your lights, you may have a newer or older bracket design. Our new brackets have a slot that allows for easier install, since you dont have to drill the screw though the steel bracket. If you have the older style without the slot, you may need to pre drill a hole in the bracket for easier install.
Note 2: Since these lights will be experiencing a lot force and movement, it may be a good idea to drill a hole through the bracket and dust guard, and ziptie the bracket to the guard just for an extra point of attachment.
Install your wheel. Put your wheel back on.
Repeat. Move on to your next wheel, and repeat steps 1 - 5.
Here are the steps for installing your wiring harness.
We've built our harnesses to be able to fit nearly any truck. To ensure that you have enough length, it's best to put your harness as close to the center of your truck as you can. This will give you the most length to reach each of your wheels.
Run connectors. Run each of the 4 connector leads to each wheel light. You'll want to route these carefully, making sure to Avoid hot or moving parts! And while you'll want to keep it looking neat and tidy, don't go too crazy with the routing that you end up with not enough length to reach the wheel light! Once you've reached the wheel light, plug it in. Then, use the zipties to tidy up the cables.
Routing the switch. Now that you have your connectors ran, you can work on routing the switch. We recommend unplugging the switch from the harness, and routing it through the grommet under the drivers side floor mat. You can route it however and wherever you want though.
Note: Depending on when you purchased your wheel lights, they may have an included wireless module (See picture 3A). If you want to install this module into your harness for wireless features, simply unplug the switch from your harness, and plug the box in between the switch and the harness. (See picture 3B)
Connecting harness to the Battery. Now that you've run all your wires, you can now wire your harness to your battery.
Note: Depending on when you ordered your wheel lights, you may have a revised harness with longer input leads. This eliminates one step. Please follow the instructions for your harness.
3 A) If you have the longer input leads: Run the input leads of the harness up, through the engine bay, to your battery. Connect the black wire to the negative of your battery, then the red to the positive. Bundle up any loose wire and use a ziptie to tidy it up.
3 B) If you have the shorter input leads: If you have the shorter input leads, you should also have 2 extra pieces of ~ six foot wire.
Run these wires down from your battery. Take the wires through your engine bay, to the underneath of your truck. Do not connect them to the battery yet! Cut off the through hole connectors from the harness input leads, and connect an extension wire to the red (+) and the black (-) wire.
Connect your wires to the battery. Taking note of which wire is negative and which is positive, you can route the wires to your battery. Cut any excess wire if you'd like, and strip the wires. Attach the included through hole crimp connectors to the wires. Make sure they are tight. Then, connect your negative wire to your negative on the battery, and your positive to your positive.
If, for some reason, your wheel lights aren't working, here are a few common issues.
Faulty wiring. Double check to make sure your wiring is done correctly. Positives should be connected to positives, and negatives to negatives.
Loose connections. Even though we try to have as few handmade connections as possible, they few that there are can still cause trouble if not properly crimped. Double check that all crimp connections are tight. A slightly loose connection can cause a lot of trouble!
Reach out for help. If you've tried troubleshooting, but still are having problems, please reach out to us at [email protected] .
Once installed, these wheel lights are very low maintenance. One thing you'll want to do is check every so often if the wheel lights are still firmly attached. Give them a little wiggle and see if they are still solid. If they have happened to come loose, you'll want to reattach them before further damage can be done.
We have a limited 6 month warranty for all of our wheel lights. This means that if you did everything right, but something fails, we will send you the replacement parts you need. However, if the lights are not installed correctly, and damage occurs due to faulty installation, we cannot cover the damaged product. If that were to happen however, we do have replacement parts available for purchase on our website czmods.com .
Picture 3a (Wireless module)
Picture 3b (Module location)