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 24v wheel light set. The box should include:
4x wheel lights
Wiring harness
Extra wire and connectors
12 to 24v converter
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.
Our wheel lights come with a fully plug and play harness. That means you don't have to wire each wheel light together, you can just wire up to your battery, plug them in and go. However, with our 24v line of wheel lights, there is an extra step of wiring in the converter. Don't worry though, it is super simple to install.
Locate your battery. To prevent problems with over heating, we recommend keeping the length of wire between your battery and converter as short as possible. So you'll want to find a good spot close to the battery.
Connect short wires to converter. Attach the 2 foot lengths of wire to the positive and negative INPUT of the converter. (See picture 2). However, Do not connect the wires to the battery! If the converter is connected to the battery before being connected to the harness, the lose ends of the converter could short, ruining the converter.
Connect long wires to converter. Depending on when you ordered your wheel lights, you may have a revised harness with longer (6 foot), input leads (See picture 3). If you have the longer input leads, ignore this step.
If you have shorter input leads: If you have the harness with the shorter leads, then you should also have two extra pieces of six-ish foot wire. Connect one of the wires to the OUTPUT negative, and the other to the OUTPUT positive of the converter. (See picture 2). Then, run the two wires down through the engine bay to the underneath of your truck.
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 4A). 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 4B)
Connecting harness to the converter. Now that you've run all your wires, you can now wire your harness to your converter.
3 A) If you have the longer input leads: Cut off the through hole connectors, and strip each wire. These wires should be 12 AWG red and black wires. Run these wires up, through the engine bay, to your converter. Connect the red and black wires to the positive and negative OUT of the converter (See picture 2). Use the included crimp connectors and make sure they are tight.
3 B) If you have the shorter input leads: Cut off the through hole connectors from the harness leads, strip the wires, and attach the positive and negative leads to the corresponding wires you ran from your converter in step 3 of Installing your converter. Use the included crimp connectors and make sure they are tight.
Attach your converter. Now that you have your wires run, find a safe place for your converter, preferably as cool as possible. You can use zipties or whatever you want to secure it into place.
Connect your converter to your battery. After everything else has been connected, amd your converter attached, you can now connect your converter you your battery. Trim any excess wire if necessary, and crimp the included through hole connectors to the wires going to the INPUT of the converter. Then, connect your negative wire to the negative of your batter, then connect your positive wire to the positive.
Congratulations, you now have wheel light that are sure to impress your buddies.
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 4a (Wireless module)
Picture 4b (Module location)
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