Chevy C10 LED Side Marker Lights

Okay, Garret. It's been probably two years since we installed the United Pacific headlights, and their tail lights, and these great side mirrors on your truck. What has your impressions been so far now that you've actually had a chance to use them for like two years now? They've been fantastic. The mirrors are fantastic, because when there's a car on the side of me, I put my blinker on, they know I'm gonna be moving over. With the taillights, they got the they're very bright in the back and my brake lights, a lot of people can see me a lot better. The headlights, that's night and day difference. I mean, I can stay at the car shows a little bit longer. Friends of mine, they end up leaving early, you know Yup. From the car show, because of the visibility of their cars. Yeah, some of these classic cars, the lights just ain't as bright as what we're used to nowadays. Yes, and a lot of my friends have these, the Chevy C10s, and they wanna get these products, and actually sold them, and actually bought some of the product. Awesome. Yeah. I know these mirrors, they look every bit like the factory original, but they've got that little stealth, little LED arrow in them that gives an indication that your car is changing lanes, or you intend to change lanes. Added safety feature, plus a good restoration perk. Yeah, they're identical to the-- Factory original. The factory original. And you have those headlights. I know when we installed them. And you know, a lot of times we install parts on video, and it's sorta like, you wonder, "Ah, I wonder if this is going to hold up down the road?" Now that you've got two years on that nice looking set of United Pacific headlight. Yup. You're there. You say they're bright. How bright are they? Well, extremely. I mean, I can, if I put my high beams on, I can see a couple blocks ahead where the lights or the signs are reflecting. So it's-- And I know from my own experience, you know, that in cars with the LED lights in 'em, especially these United Pacific ones, they are bright. You don't expect it, you know? You kind of think, "Well, it's an LED, how bright can that be? They're pretty insanely bright. Yes. No, they're very good. I've been very impressed with them. And in the taillights you say those, I know the first time you pulled in here, they were those LED tail your regular stock tail light. They were kinda dim and red. Yup. And now, it's like, when you pulled in here today, they're still bright, you know? You really notice when you hit the brake light. Yes. Yeah, no, they've been real good. And as good as all those United Pacific parts were on your truck, this C10 would look a lot better with some new LED side marker lights. And I know you've complained about your backup lights before. Yes, my backup lights. You know, I back into my garage, and sometimes I have to turn my cargo light on just so I can see when I back it up. So, it's-- Well, fortunately, United Pacific makes a great side marker light and great new LED backup lights for these as well. So, let's finish the job, and get them installed on your C10 now. That sounds great. Okay, now, with the side marker lights, they're pretty easy to do. There's just two screws. Two screws on here. You just pull those out. Let's see. Get those out. And they just twist out. And there went the clip, And what you'll have to do is if you notice there's one for a ground here, and that's usually just underneath the, the little terminal here, and you'll just have to cut these here and you can add the new marker lights on. Okay. Now, after you get the wire strip, let's get that, get the connectors that they supply, and we'll get that put on here. And then you got to get the, before you crimp it, you want to make sure that you get both ends in here. Now, Mark, if you could hold this here for me so that, while we get this crimped. I believe the white is the ground wire here. Oh, the black, the black is the hot wire. Black is the hot wire. And the white is the ground. And then the red is the turn signal light. Right. Which is kind of a nice addition. I'll just crimp down one side. So now you got to make sure you get the other side crimped. All right. Now with these ends here too, there also heat shrink. Yup. So we can just kind of hit the heat gun on there and, and shrink, shrink those up. Now keep the water out of the connection and- Yep. That'll keep it weather, weather tight. So it doesn't get corroded. You know, you'll have to do the same thing with the, with the ground wire, the ground wire you'll have to cut that off of the, of the bulb and make sure it gets secured back under the, the terminal there. Yeah and these early C10's it's kind of unusual, you know, you think nowadays everything's in the wiring harness and then they used to ground a lot of stuff to the body back then. Yes. And we'll heat shrink these here. A little tug in and you'll tighten it. Yes. Good? Nope. Give a little tug it still, we got to crimp her a little bit further. Yep. She's good. We'll get that one heat shrinked up. Now the red light, the red wire here you can tie that into the, your turn signal on the back, which, which will make this here. Just, it just gets brighter when your blinker goes off. Actually your side marker lights will, will blink too. So you can tie that in. You just kind of get watt wires for the back, if you want to do that. So then you'll have to slide this down and get her up into the, into figure out the blinker side there. Now from the factory, they have a little rubber gasket here, and you want to make sure that you get that back on. And it just kinda adds for a little cushion with the, with the blinkers or with them side marker lights. Okay. Now that we have it installed, we'll test the lights. Mark, can you turn the lights on? Sure. There you go. So you can see that there are a lot brighter than what the factory ones are. With the factory ones they only light up at the top and the bottom one is actually just a reflector. Wow! That's a big difference. You know, you look at, even at the other side and the other light, this is bright. Yes, no, it's going to be a big improvement. Well with that, let's move, you know, we'll finish up the side marker light and move on to the backup light next. That sounds great. Okay. Now with the rear backup lights here, you just got to pull out the two screws. Okay. Now we get the lens out. You can see, I had LED bulbs in here, but they still were not very bright at all. They have the same type of connector as the other bulbs that I had. And they are pretty simple to do just to get those in there. And, and now they've put a little groove in there to push that in and turn it, make sure she's secured in there and we'll get this back in and we'll put screws back in it. All right. Now that we get it mounted, we'll have, we'll have Mark turn the light on. Sure. And we'll see how they work. And boy you can tell that's a lot better than what they were. You'll be able to see when you're backing out. Now that we have the other side installed, we'll have Mark turn the lights on and see how they work. Sure. Boy, that's a lot better. You'll definitely be able to see. Mark why don't you try putting the, the taillights on. Yup. All right. Why don't you hit the brakes once. Boy, that's huge. Now that you have all that led lights in the back. Mark why don't you take a look at this? Sure. Wow. That is a lot brighter than it used to be, you know, before they just kind of had a little glow but now they're just insanely bright, you know? And I think that's a good point to make is that, you know, even though this had like LED bulbs in there before, you know, it, it, you had the reliability in the long life, but you didn't have the brightness in that now with a full LED panel, you've got like insane brightness there. Yes. You'll definitely be able to see where you're backing up. And you don't have to worry about replacing bulbs because these are going to last a long time. Yup. That's a, one thing about LEDs is they'll, they'll probably last the, as long as I have the truck. And if you do have problems, you know, that's, the great thing is United Pacific stands behind their products, you know, with lifetime warranties on a lot of their LED lighting product, you know, that if you ever have any problem down the road, you can get them, get ahold of them and they'll replace it for free. So it's worth, you know, it's worth the investment in a good set of LED lights, not only for the brightness, clarity and safety and reliability, but down the road, you know, you've got a company that's behind you. Yes. And it doesn't take long to install them. In. You know, there, you have it, you know, in a matter of a couple of hours, you know, we've gone through upgraded the lighting components on this truck that we didn't get to on the first time. But now, now it's going to, it's done and we can enjoy the truck for years to come. Yeah.