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today we're going to install a 20 inch light bar on a Nissan Xterra here's the light bar it is an ox beam I will link this down in the video description below luckily for us on the Nissan Xterra there's a hollow spot right there in the bumper where we're going to stick the light bar I'll just slide right there and that little groove and still has room for the mounting plates right below it to hook it to the bumper though we're going to remove the license plate holder and then this section of the bumper has about six bolts underneath a few latches here at the top that you can just unclip and then this section of the bumper comes away so we're going to mount the light to the top of this section of the bumper and then snap it back into place blue eye bar comes with all kinds of cool hardware we have the mounting brackets down here at the bottom then you have two side bolts and their washers that go in either side to hold the mounting plate in place and then you have a locking washer and nut and a bolt that just stick down here through the bottom and that's what's going to go into the bumper to hold it on you can see the light bar has different lenses for the different LEDs on the front these are more for flood and these are more for spots you get a wider angle from the sides of it so not all the light is concentrated in front of the vehicle and the cable right here you have to buy an additional wiring harness for it and I'll show you how that's installed later on these little mounting plates down at the bottom thank you move left and right and then tighten down with an Allen wrench this isn't included though with the kit so this section of racket can move up and down just depending on what angle you want the Y bar to be and when it's fully installed you can also flip around the bracket and have it be positioned so you can mount it straight from behind as well just depending on what kind of mounting positions you have available lucky for us has a perfect slot right here in the bumper for our light so what we've done is we've measured the sides make sure that it's centered completely in the middle and then marked where our bolts need to go it's going to bolt right into this little plastic Ridge and this is just marking the center point so now that we've taken this chunk of bumper off right here made the marks with soapstone and then figured where the bolt needs to go down through and just started pretty drilling the hole with a bit the front of the car here this is where that section of bumper will flip up and attach we've cut two little holes here because there's a metal bar down in here that isn't too far away so I'll have a whole lot of room to work with and then right here we've hacked off the end of the bolt so that this nut will just slip right down inside of this hole and then the whole thing will latch in these little slots along the back and it will be mounted for the wiring harness it comes tied up in a little ball and it's actually pretty simple to explain I'll start here with the battery so with the battery connection you have the one black that's tied into the relay that's going to go on the negative terminal of the battery and then you're going to have two red connections that will go to the battery as well ones attached here to the fuse and you want to take out the fuse before you start working on anything and so these two red connections will attach to the positive terminal of the battery now following the wires from the relay you have the white and the red headed this direction and what we're going to do with those is there's a little hole here in the firewall right there and the black wire is going to go through that hole into the cab of the vehicle and that's the switch that turns the light on and off and coming from that we have another black wire and it is just going to attach to any screw that's on the metal frame it's a ground preferably a screw that's not painted so you can see that screw down there has a wire attached to it so that's grounding something else and this ground can just stick right on inside of that bolt as well so I have two grounds coming off the same bolt anyway back to the battery here's that same relay with the black negative terminal battery connection it's going to have two wires coming down the connect to the light bar now this particular wiring harness has two connections so you can have two light bars it's got a black and a white and then the other end it has a black and white as well since the cable is only coming out of the two wires it's going to be the same amperage whether you have two light bars or one so we're just going to use the one light bar connection and it's got the black and the white right there and we're going to take it over to the light bar which has the red and the black wires we're going to go black to black and white to red and that should power the whole thing so we're going to make sure that all fits up before we mount the light bar back onto the bumper so our plan worked pretty good we got this section of bumper clipped in our little holes for the bolts snapped in just nicely and we got the bottom of this section of the bumper all screwed back in and it is solid now we get that license plate cover back on and we're good to go alright so we're testing out the lights right now these are just the normal headlights obviously the camera doesn't pick up all the light that's spewing out so here's the normal headlights and I'm going to flip on the brights that's what the brights on and then we're going to flip on the LED bar and that place that's probably about 50 yards away and it's lit up pretty well can't really tell with the camera but it's lit up as well as the trees on either side so now we're going to turn off the regular lights and leave just the LED light bar on so here's the button from the cab where went through the firewall so every time we click this it turns the LED lights off and on quick little tip if your light bar is like blinking or flickering it means it's not getting enough power so make sure that the connections to your battery and the grounding connection are clean and solid and that should fix any flickering issues that you have with the light all the parts like the wiring harness and the LED light we found in the video description below if you have any questions leave them in the comments if you're curious about this light bar that I had solved in my trunk go ahead and click in this corner to see how that was made I did some custom brackets on the side and I have another LED bar here that you can check out as well it's one of the four inch spotlights thanks ton for watching hope serum