2007 Jeep Wrangler

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DEPUTYSTEPHENSON

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OK so a buddy of mine called me a few minutes ago and wants me to light up a 2007 Jeep Wrangler(soft top). He is a cop and will be responding with it (nothing high speed) and using it as a secondary vehicle. It has nothing special on it just a base package. He wants it to have good coverage but nothing that really sticks out. This is what I have in mind already.


FRONT


2 x Code 3 XT6 (solid red/blue) in the grille


1 x Whelen SlimLighter (TIR6 red/blue) above RVM


sometype of HLF


REAR


unknown


So I need help with the rear, best siren speaker for this vehicle and also he wants 4 corner strobes but im not for sure if the housings are big enough.
 
DEPUTYSTEPHENSON said:
OK so a buddy of mine called me a few minutes ago and wants me to light up a 2007 Jeep Wrangler(soft top). He is a cop and will be responding with it (nothing high speed) and using it as a secondary vehicle. It has nothing special on it just a base package. He wants it to have good coverage but nothing that really sticks out. This is what I have in mind already.

FRONT


2 x Code 3 XT6 (solid red/blue) in the grille


1 x Whelen SlimLighter (TIR6 red/blue) above RVM


sometype of HLF


REAR


unknown


So I need help with the rear, best siren speaker for this vehicle and also he wants 4 corner strobes but im not for sure if the housings are big enough.
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hey deputy.


as for the speaker, i really like fedsig's AS124...solid and rugged. where does he want it mounted, though? never been under the hood of a wrangler so i'm not positive that the AS124 will fit behind the grill, so u may have to go with something else like whelen's slim projector series speakers.


for the rear, the housings are small, so i'd go with LAWs (i.e. SOS universal undercover or whelen vertex) for the heat issue associated with strobes. i've seen the vertexes mounted in the reverse housings here somewhere, i believe.


front sounds good, but maybe consider xt6's or ghosts above the RVM instead of an interior-mount light like a slimlighter (so he doesn't have to scramble to put the slimlighter away to protect it, in case he gets caught in bad weather with the softtop down), but that's just how i personally'd take care of lighting if it were my POV.
 
As far as the rear, the housings look big enough on the taillights, so I'd put some HAW strobes in there. Of course, I'm STILL not convinced by any HAW LED on the market, so I'm a little partial concerning that subject. Only thing I'd suggest is at least 20 watts on the strobes to make sure they're seen.


For a bit more additional rear warning, possibly take a pair of pimp pods and mount them to the rear bars that holds the soft top on. May have to get a bit creative with the mounting , such as using heavy duty zip ties or explore "wrap" mounts for other devices meant for using on tubular metal.


Regarding the front, I think you got it covered. For a bit of side/intersection warning, could go for a 10-75 license plate wrap bracket and have a pair of pimp pods on it.
 
grfd711 said:
As far as the rear, the housings look big enough on the taillights, so I'd put some HAW strobes in there. Of course, I'm STILL not convinced by any HAW LED on the market, so I'm a little partial concerning that subject. Only thing I'd suggest is at least 20 watts on the strobes to make sure they're seen.

For a bit more additional rear warning, possibly take a pair of pimp pods and mount them to the rear bars that holds the soft top on. May have to get a bit creative with the mounting , such as using heavy duty zip ties or explore "wrap" mounts for other devices meant for using on tubular metal.


Regarding the front, I think you got it covered. For a bit of side/intersection warning, could go for a 10-75 license plate wrap bracket and have a pair of pimp pods on it.
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I'm with you on the strobes verses leds. The leds have no real pop to them. I forgot about the 10-75 bracket, but like the idea.


He is switching to a hard top (has to wait to get it for his birthday as his parents already bought it).
 
DEPUTYSTEPHENSON said:
I'm with you on the strobes verses leds. The leds have no real pop to them. I forgot about the 10-75 bracket, but like the idea.


He is switching to a hard top (has to wait to get it for his birthday as his parents already bought it).
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+1 on the strobes. I bought a pair of thes sound off led hideaways. I was not impressed at all. I will stick with my 8 head 280 watt strobe pack.


Zach
 
I've seen a Wrangler used as a mail truck, and they had an amber strobe mounted SIDEWAYS on the left rear fender, between the wheel well and the back of the truck. It works, but it doesn't get any points for aesthetics.
 
With the flat windshield that the wranglers have, I would get a bar from Microman and you could mount it at the headliner lever or at the dash level. For the rear I think a 90 degree mount on the top of the brake lights would work and then a 90 degree mount would work under the rear bumper as well. A combination of XT 3's, 4's or 6's would look good.
 
with the size of the back window on the wrangler it is still possible to mount a 6-8 head dominator btwn the roll bars across the back window.will just require some modification to the brackets
 
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