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today I'm going to show you the basics of installing a light bar on your empresa WRX I will link this particular light bar and all the tools you need in the video description below so check that out let's get started so installing the lights pretty straightforward it comes with some mounting hardware that just bolts into the side of the lamp and then we have a screw going through the plastic of the bumper and then I also put a metal plate on the other side of the bumper that the bolt goes through so that's not ever going to pull through the bumper on the backside and the lights light or not that it's not going to cause the bumper to sag or anything which is nice on the other side of this nut is a nother washer and a locking washer and then a wing nut on the top and that's what keeps the light on both sides attached to this bumper and it's pretty secure so the wiring harness is actually pretty simple we're going to start with this end right here that connects to the battery we have the red cable that goes to the positive terminal of the battery the black cable that goes to the negative terminal and this is the relay this will just bolt next to the battery on any bolt that you can find and this is where the fuse is you want to take out the fuse while you're working and installing all the lights and stuff so that the fuse doesn't trip itself on accident you can just flip up that little latch and the fuse comes out now the rest of the wiring harness it kind of splits off into a Y and goes to directions we're going to start with the black side first this particular wiring harness can be used for two LED lights so you have a black and a red here which connects to one LED light and a black and red there that connect to another LED light but since we're only installing one light we're only going to use one connection and then we'll just electrical tape the other one to keep it keep water off of it now the other side of the wiring harness which is this white cable goes towards a switch so it can disconnect here which makes it easier when we go through the firewall and I'll show you that in a second and then we have the switch itself and the switch is what goes through the firewall inside of the car and that will turn the LED light on and off these other cables that connect to the switch as well this one is just going to screw on to any old bolt underneath the hood and this is a ground and then the red cable does need to go to the positive terminal of the battery so I did a test wire really quick I took the red from the switch and plugged into the red terminal the battery and the red from the you know right next to the relay put the black from the relay on the negative right there and then from the switch side just because we're testing it out and I've put it through the firewall yet I took the negative and just grounded it on any old bolt and I mean the switch right here you can see that the LEDs light up was showing us which is getting power and then I can press it and we got the LED light that turns on and off so the light is connected and I'm shining it over at our neighbor's house and it lights up the entire building all the way to the top of the roof it's pretty intense so I'm going to talk about the wiring for just a second so remember the center part of the harness with the relay and the two connections for the battery so this is here and then it wise off and we have the switch wires that are just wrapped up around the edge of the car and then there's a hole right back in here so the metal panel between your engine compartment and the cab of your car is called a firewall and there's always a hole somewhere in your firewall where wires can go through so there's a little rubber piece right here that we just kind of push down and then fed the wires through it and sometimes you know they're on the other side by the driver's side or the steering wheel in this case is on the passenger side so we put the switch wires through there and then we're just going to ground it off of the one of these same silver bolts that I did before going back to the battery the second part of the Y is over here so we have one connection for an LED light bar here because this is a dual harness fed the wires here next the radiator and then we're going to take these wires and drop them down and connect them to the LED light bar itself and it's wires are going up there as well through the grille these are the connections on the wiring harness that are supposed to clip into the light bar wires and so I bought these right here and they attach to them to the light bar wires so if you can see them down they're coming up through the front bumper of the car they'll just plug into these and the light bar will be connected to the wiring harness now the switch right here since it is coming from the passenger side of the firewall we just routed it underneath the dashboard behind it and then underneath this plastic part right here and now every time we can just press the button while sitting in the driver seat so it's easily accessible so we're gonna test the bar right now so this is this the regular headlights that are on on the car and then this is with the LED light bar on you can see how it lights up the trees in the background and then turn on your brights really quick and that is what the brights on and then turn the LED off and those are the different lights you