Official Rave Offroad TRD Pro Marker Light Thread

Ran the positive cable for mine through an existing opening into the passenger fuse box.

 

Answer: Rave sells junk

 

Yup.

 

as the parent of a specials needs kid, I can’t tell you how I much I dislike this approach.

but it looks like you’ve got a bum part. I’d check the wiring and soldering on the lights or get in touch with the vendor.

 

I have the Rave Amber/Amber lights and they all work! What I have found recently is that the fuse tap is a bit weak and doesn’t connect. I am going to connect my fender flare lights and DD lightbar and fix that at the same time.

If you can get 2 lights to work and the third is not, check the connection to see if the polarity is reversed. I think these are LED’s so that might prevent the light from working if wired backwards.

 

My better half bought me the Rave grill kit for Christmas. She did get the OEM grill, but with the Rave light bar and amber marker lights. I can probably live with the dimmer light bar given I’ll only need it a handful of times a year when heading to camp after dark.

The early feedback here on the marker lights has me wondering if I should wait and pick up the TRD marker lights.

what’s the recent consensus?

 

I don't know your "better half", but if she's anything like mine, you better take what she got you and love it. Mine would shoot me if I returned something she got me in exchange for something else because I didn't like it.

 

She is cool, wouldn’t care one bit. I just don’t want to install them and have them fail shortly if moisture continued to be an issue. It’s just a marker light though…

funny enough she said, I got you the grill you wanted…. That looks exactly like the one you have now lol

I have the blacked out limited off-road grill now. Better than the chrome but looks a little “faceless” until I get the heritage on

 

Rave has a few different markers. The ones I got were called "Amber-Amber" and they are well sealed. The leaky ones were the units with the black backing plate. If you plan on doing the TRD Pro flares, you might want to get the TRD Pro markers for the grille. Then they will look the same and be the same color of yellow.

The Rave lights (Amber-Amber) that I had were very different than the lights in the flares. I think too bright and adding another shade of yellow to the truck was weird.

 

Installed the Rave kit including OEM grill, and Rave amber/amber marker lights + lightbar. More work than I expected but overall happy with the result.

Amber marker lights wired up easily enough. Yes they are brighter and a different tone of amber than OEM. I “may” replace them at some point with TRD but it’s not high on the list. They work well and really pop

the light bar - I have yet to wire it up. I appear to be missing a couple of pieces to properly install. Expected to have a second o-ring style ground wire and a red extension to connect the switch to the fuse tap wire (both of these are quite short…. Aside from getting this proper hardware, have others just cut some extra red from the extended cable from the light bar and just wrapped the ground around the drivers side bolt? I’m sure that would work but was expecting the kit to come with those two pieces based on their wiring diagrams..

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after

 

Looks great! Mine will look just like that soon. How was it? Did you break anything? Any "gotchas" or surprises to be mindful of? I'm super apprehensive to snap panels off a new truck with so much plastic tabs, clips, etc.

 

I did break something - it’s one of a few different bumper supports, and the one I broke is connected to a plastic clip and has a bolt hole for the last bolt on the front of the fender well. I took the YouTube video a bit too literally when they said to use force to pry off the bumper from behind the fender. Take your time and try to push from behind as you pry from the front. I put everything back together for now. Ordered the cheap part to replace at some point but everything still went back together fine and is tight and secure. From what I’ve read this piece is an extra bumper support to help dampen damage in a collision. But it’s a thin piece of plastic I broke easily with my bare hands. Hard for me to see how that one piece is going to make the difference in a major accident though it could help reduce damage in a fender bender situation I suppose.

I learned and was a little gentler on the other side and didn’t break anything

 

I installed the Rave Stealth/Amber marker lights with the Rave light bar, on a OEM grille. I was able to get the grill for cheaper than I would have gotten the rave version thanks to some holiday sales (around $145).

I love the stealth look of these. So far so good, it has only been a week but surviving the heavy rains we've had recently. If these fail on me I will look at going OEM market lights next, but I really love the stealth look.

https://imgur.com/a/yK3AUPi