I installed fog lights on my X , and they cracked shortly after. The cracks were from the heat of the bulb and not an impact. No water into light, and still work fine after 1 year. I also used aux switch so I can use them without the headlights on. Your channel has been great information for working on my X.
Good diy follow along. Recently installed driving lights on my Frontier in the same location (in Canada we are required to have a front license plate). I removed only the grill and using a very long bit drilled through the plastic bumper and steel bumper structure. Bolted lights on. Nice Saturday project.
Awesome video. I added a lightbar and pods in the same area. I wired them to a switch mounted where the blanks are near the drivers knee. I mounted mine to the plastic and not to the metal bumper. I will be redoing it now following your video. Mine move around a lot as the whole bumper cover is floppy.
Aww sorry. I am a lunatic for super clean installations. The less extra stuff the better. If need any help with that I have wire tapped new things in the X. Check out my seat heater video for tapping into he fuse box and my front facing camera video for feeding wires through the firewall.
@@Rythecarguy I relocated the mirror switch and used the two blank slots on the left side of the steering column. 4 Switches (bumper bar, ditch lights, light bar and 6 roof rack lights) Funny enough I just flipped brackets upside down and mounted it in to the plastic. 2 years and no issues. May go back and mount it how you did when I repaint my front bumper for some extra piece of mind.
I have a similar light bar that I want to install on my 06 but unfortunately I am required to have a front license plate, so I will need to find some way to relocate the plate before I put the light in. I also have the stalk for the fog lights so that would be a cool way to control it instead of running more wires.
If you have the plastic mold holding the plate that size bar fits snugly on top of it. Might have to modify the brackets that hold the light bar. I’ve since added a bull bar so I just relocated my front plate there.
Nilight sells a "L" shape bracket to have a light bar and your license plate on it. Its what I plan to use when I add a light bar in the same location and you wont have to drill any holes.
Good video. That's pretty much what I had to do to install a light bar on my X a year ago. Slightly off topic here, but with your style of grille, I bet orange led lights would look good where those dimples are located.
@@Rythecarguy Awesome, thank you so much for doing your FANTASTIC channel.. You have and continue to provide a wealth of knowledge for ALL of us Xterra owners out here…. Thanks for the link as well.. PLEASE keep the Xterra videos coming! 🇺🇸
nice job and thank you for sharing..i fix led bar in my xterra same place but with different brackets (modified). but im just wondering if you need an electrical relay to avoid the high current pulled by led bar?? did you ithink it will not effect car ecu in future ?? hope you get my point. thank you for sharing again
Nice patience you had on that project. What sounded so simple turned into a full on PIA for an fog light 😇. I think a side 90 degree drill would have solved your main issue?
Thank you very much, awesome job, I will definitely install it on my 2010 Xterra, but I do have fog lights on mine and I don't know if the wiring connection will be easy, can I join the fog light wire and this bar's wire together into one by using the same extender that you used, what is your advise for me please, by the way I appreciate all your videos that you post about working on Xterra because you helped me a lot working on mine, God bless you and thank you again.
You’re welcome. I would recommend an H11 splitter if you want to make the wiring a little easier. You can do the same thing I did. All you need to do is plug the splitter into the fog light connection, plug the fog light in with one wire and cut the other one off to wire it up to the light bar.
I wanted a temporary attachment for my lightbar just to make sure I liked it and that I really wanted it where I put it. I used the 3m doublesided tape, and honestly it's held on better than I expected. I'll probably keep it mounted that way!
@@Rythecarguy I catch a lot of flak for it, but I taped the mounts. It's a 14" bar and it's taken a lot of highway miles and some spritited gravel road driving and hasn't moved in the slightest! It was also the cheaper Walmart one haha so if I had a pricier one I would absolutely bolt it in!
Hello, I having issue on my Nissan xterra 2008 all interior lamp not working. I check all fuse was OK I did use diagnostic tool BCM no trouble code. You could help me with my issue?
Hi Ry, great video. The light looks great, but does it reduce air flow to the rad? Now that you've had the light bar on for a few miles, have you noticed any difference in engine temperature?
Everything operates perfectly. In fact, I just drove it 1000 miles straight across country in 90+ degree weather. Ran like a champ other than dying on the side of the road from the crank sensor lol. But that's unrelated..
Wondering your thoughts of wiring a 42 inch light bar on the top of my xterra tapping to the fog as you did with your smaller light. Hope to hear from you
Hey Ry, Awesome video. Really appreciate it. Pardon my ignorance, but if I tap into my fog light wires, will the LED come on whenever I turn on my fog lights? Thanks!
I thought about that but I think it will be ok since I have the whole the grille above it that is unobstructed. I will let you guys know if I run across any adverse affects.
Hey Ri, thank you so much for the videos! Just bought an Xterra and want to install the light bar. I bought the same one from Harbor Freight. I already have the existing fog lights that I want to keep working. How do you tap into those preexisting lights and so they will work with the steering wheel control. Do you still need the extra wiring harness that you linked? Or Is there another harness that would work? Thanks so much.
A trick with finding the center of things that aren't easy to halve is do it just how you started with the tape, estimate half and measure that from both sides. Should make 2 lines pretty close to each other, and in between them is the center.
Haha isn't that ture things alot of time don't go as plan and we have to improvise as we good. When I was installing my roof light bar so many things .. went different . BTW good thing that this light bar is 6amp so it's save to use on stalk switch otherwise if it was stronger prob would need wire harness with relay and high Amp fuse
@@Rythecarguy ha sure is... but hell man that weather that you have is not fair lol ! we have barely mid 30s here with snow and freezing rain not fun not fun lol
Did you ever end up having issues with cutting out the vertical fins in the bumper cover mouth? Was thinking they probably prevent flutter and oscillation from the cover at higher speeds. Trying to decide whether to go the route you went, or leave the fins and use 3 smaller bars/pods
Hello Ry the car guy, sorry to post it on this video but, do you have a video or can point me to a video that shows how to replace the a/c expansion valve on a R51 (2010) Pathfinder ? Any help will mean a great deal.
@@Rythecarguy I just sold my xterra 2000 now i got 2006 and i love it thank you Ray for sharing your knowledge and make xterra's owners life easier god bless you.
