I dont see any volunteers on here but....I am a firefighter

[fyrbry25]

I know I am a new member, and I definitely missed the boat on all of the happenings with Suzuki actually have dealerships in the US for sales and support, but the car is great.

Now the reason for this post is because I am a volunteer firefighter and will be posting pics for anyone that wants to see of the emergency lights that I am installing and how I plan to do it.

I started tonight with mounting two amber and blue led lights to the back deck lip of the trunk on either side of the license plate lights. I plan to run the wires to my switch box that is hidden in the arm rest and will tap into the aux outlet in that location. I ran the wires for the rear lights through the whole for the camera mount, since I don't have the camera, I drilled a whole into the "plug" that Suzuki put in place and ran the wires through there.

I will be mounting leds on the front as well and will follow up with that information and how and where I ran wiring for them as I complete each step.

thank you for your time, this forum has already been immensely helpful and I have only owned the car a week, and it has 58,000 miles on it.

thank you,

Bryan

[WESHOOT2]

Congratulations.


We love pics.

[KuroNekko]

Pictures of the installation would be cool to see. Thanks for also being a volunteer firefighter. I was just in Santa Clarita, CA two weeks ago and now they are engulfed in a raging wildfire that threatens my girlfriend's family's home.
I've also personally lost a home back in 2003 to a wild fire in the San Bernardino Mountains in CA. It was this fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fire
Southern California is a powder keg for wild fires but I know the firefighters work very hard to contain it to protect property and lives.

[fyrbry25]

Congratulations.


We love pics.

What size do pics need to be, I tried to put a pic up of my new car the other day and said file to big?

Thank you all for any and all help...now and in the future.

Bryan

[fyrbry25]

Pictures of the installation would be cool to see. Thanks for also being a volunteer firefighter. I was just in Santa Clarita, CA two weeks ago and now they are engulfed in a raging wildfire that threatens my girlfriend's family's home.
I've also personally lost a home back in 2003 to a wild fire in the San Bernardino Mountains in CA. It was this fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fire
Southern California is a powder keg for wild fires but I know the firefighters work very hard to contain it to protect property and lives.

Thank you for the kind words, we dont have anywhere near the wildfire problems CA does in PA, but it is still hard work and lots of hours of training, sorry you had to see if first hand in the your loss.

thank you again for the reply,

Bryan

[fyrbry25]

I started tonight with mounting two amber and blue led lights to the back deck lip of the trunk on either side of the license plate lights. I plan to run the wires to my switch box that is hidden in the arm rest and will tap into the aux outlet in that location. I ran the wires for the rear lights through the whole for the camera mount, since I don't have the camera, I drilled a whole into the "plug" that Suzuki put in place and ran the wires through there.

I will be mounting leds on the front as well and will follow up with that information and how and where I ran wiring for them as I complete each step.

thank you for your time, this forum has already been immensely helpful and I have only owned the car a week, and it has 58,000 miles on it.

thank you,

Bryan

Here is a picture of the back of my car, this is the only lighting needed, I will post video once it is wired this weekend. I am also including a picture of the switchbox that will be mounted in the arm rest, if all goes well, the wiring should all be hidden and professional looking....either way it will be functional, I know some of you on here have been really critical of clean/not clean installs and I will do my best.

Bryan

[fyrbry25]

Ok, so here goes, this is my first time doing an install like this on a car I just bought, and writing it up and posting pictures....the main idea is that I wanted to put my emergency lights on the car with out having anything visible while sitting in the car. So in the end we connected all the wiring, but to explain it better, I will follow the wiring from beginning to end result for two of the three tasks.

First figure out where to connect wiring and run wires to passenger cabin area:

power to swtichbox in armrest and ground to box, and front lights.jpg (209.99 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

Then run wires in between hood and door, as shown

onlywiresvisible.jpg (163.44 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

go under weather stripping but not at the bottom where water would gather and enter the car

wiresfromunderhood.jpg (279.72 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

Then hide wires under dash

hiding wires.jpg (201.87 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

and hide them further away from pedals so not to interfere with driving

hiding wires 2.jpg (174.81 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

then run wires to center console with armrest as shown

wires come in next to seat to ebrake area.jpg (95.27 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

drill hole in front side of armrest from location of cup holder

switchbox w hole drilled.jpg (123.69 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

then connect all the wires under where the cup holder goes

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connecting switchbox.jpg (114.89 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

wiring that sits under cup holder.jpg (179.12 KiB) Viewed 7185 times

to be continued.....

fyrbry25

[fyrbry25]

Hi again, to continue my complete my first task, all i needed to do was check that the switchbox worked and reassemble everything....this is how it looked while everything was being connected:

teardown before routing wires.jpg (149.97 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

Here is the final product of the switchbox install:

switchbox installed and live-part one done.jpg (152.88 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

NOw onto the fun part, step 2 the lights:

First thing we did was remove the bumper, completely....

part two-step one remove bumper.jpg (271.91 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

Then we removed the chrome looking S grill and used the black plastic grill behind it to mount the light. 4 blue emergency and while I was at it 2 white led driving (DRL like) lights

step 2-remove s grill and layout lights.jpg (209.46 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

Once we decided where everything was going to sit and made sure it wouldnt be obscured by the license plate(s) or the chrome S on the from we wired then up to each other:

wiring up emergency lights.jpg (215.77 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

When all the front lights were mounted and wired, we tested them prior to reassembly:

front bumper wiring done, tested, now reassemble.jpg (225.34 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

always test prior to reassembly.jpg (91.45 KiB) Viewed 7184 times

thank you for your time, the finish product lit up in the next post...

fyrbry25

[fyrbry25]

Ok, here is the last post on this til the weekend, when I get done with the read lights.

Here is the finished product of the front light mounting that was done by my son and I over last weekend:

all lights mounted, but off.jpg (222.03 KiB) Viewed 7179 times

Here are the lower lights turned on (they will be used along with DRL that are OEM:

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and a closeup of them:

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Then I also mounted blue emergency (courtesy) lights that say (please move to the side if you dont mind):

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behind grill all 4 blues showing.jpg (102.04 KiB) Viewed 7179 times

Now after all of that work and putting the bumper back on and fishing all the wiring through everywhere I just today decided that the OEM horn just doesnt cut it....So i guess I will be taking the bumper off again in the near future.

Thank you for your time, and please keep in mind that everything I have done is self taught and expanded use of the internet and forums like this. Thank you to all that contribute, I know that we have very unique cars and I for one am thankful for that, who wants to drive a camry or civic anyway, lol Everyone else on my commute has either those or prius(s) or is it Priusi?

fyrbry25

[BLyons]

Looks good. Agreed that the OEM horn sucks. I went with El Grande's.
After a couple times, taking the bumper off is a breeze.