How to Wire a Light Bar on a 2021 Can Am Defender 

Thanks for the video! Enjoyed it. Will be doing same install in the near future on my '21 Defender. However, for future installers, you don't have to drill out the dash or roll tube if you use a second (return) wire to the hood area. By removing either of the plastic fenders to expose the point where the front of the roll bar bolts onto the body you will find a hole at the end of the tube where you can run your wiring up inside the tube to the roof area for the light bar. Wire sheathing will also fit in there to help prevent chafing of the insulation. If you don't mind powering from the key-on ACC power buss behind the middle switch panel you can use just one of the spare wires to get from the rocker switch back to under the hood (and then over to the roll bar). Taking off the fender requires removing the push-pins from the top and removing two screws (T25 Torx heads) located behind the fender, above the wheels toward the front. I don't know why Can Am made things so difficult to wire/install for DIY.

I loved the speed at which you were moving in parts of this video. I really did LOL while watching at times! I enjoyed it as usual.

I located an acc bar under the dash next to the extra wire the positive side has red tape wrapped around it.

10 seconds in and I said that's a south Louisiana accent, then I noticed the Saints hoodie. Subscribed on those to facts alone. From NELA/WM. Always showin' love to da boot!

Thanks and GREAT video. I had no clue how to get power into the cab. Saw those four wires under the hood but Can Am isn't very explicit as to what they are for! Thanks again!

Did you use a relay? or just strait from power through the switch to the light bar? I may have missed that but I don't think so. If not, how has that worked out over the time since you did this?

Just bought a 2023. It has those same wires but it also has a hot and ground post behind the dash. Could I use those posts?

Looking for the list of items you used in the video. Great video ... Wish I had seen it before I ran my own wires thru the firewall.

I sure wish I lived next door to you, we could work on my defender 🤣

when you added the roof, did you have to cut the corners for the brackets to fit?

Hey Corey thanks for putting this video out and providing links. As this video was posted almost a year ago. How is the Light bar holding up for you? Any issues with it?

Great vid, very helpful! Do you think those mounting brackets would also work for a 52"curved?

Great Video! Do the light bar brackets get in the way with your windshield that opens out? I have the same one, just curious!

Great videos. Just bought a 2022 can am defender xmr. Will a 51" light bar work with the 50" brackets that you used?

Hey Corey. I bought a 2022 and bought the Can-Am roof harness. I popped out the media pad and there’s a positive and negative post, the positive is marked with red tape. When you connect your power from there it’s activated with the key. So the 50 inch a Rough Country light bar I ordered with be connected to the power block mounted on the roof channel. So from what I understand I need to run a red wire from the roof to the switch correct. I’m not an expect on wiring but I believe that should work. Correct?

The link you dropped to the light brackets say only for Polaris. Do you have the correct link?

Thanks for the video. I have the exact same machine I was wondering how you like that light bar?

Friend has the same rig and when he has his light bar on and uses the winch it makes the light bar come on and off with the winch switch??? Does yours do that

I'm installing some reverse lights, and the instructions are telling me to remove the "lower center dash" to access the wires, but it looks like you didn't have to do that, correct?

Im having a problem with my window going all the way close. Any suggestions? I have the locking window

Does your light turn on/off without the power being on with the key?

Great Job, Corey!

acc buss bar is in the inside. behind the switches

Couldn't you jump the switch and use the ground coming off the headlights switch

Great help sir

wheres the discription

You sound a little like Buford T.Justice.