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We Did It! Switches Installed With Dash Light Dimming Feature!

Discussion in '5th Gen 4Runners (2010-2024)' started by WanderlostOverland, Mar 18, 2018.

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Mar 18, 2018 at 7:43 AM

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It took a ton of research and a huge leap of faith, but we solved the issue of hooking the dash lights up to our switches. After reading horror stories about blowing out control units and getting no real definitive answers to exactly which wires to tie our switch lights into, we finally figured it out.

Here's a compete install video we put together;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjsRHCqDiY
https://youtu.be/PBjsRHCqDiY

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