Quad Headlights on a Trailblazer

With the Trailblazer, the lowbeams shut off if the highbeams are enabled. This is due to several state laws that only allow 2 high beams and no other lights at the same time. The BCM will receive the low beam on signal and high beam on signal from the instrument panel, but due to settings on the BCM will turn off the low beam relay signal and enable the high beam relay signal. However, some people want to have more light when they are driving in the middle of no where. The flash-to-pass option on the car will actually allow you to turn on your high beams without turning off any other lights. This, then, will give us the option of setting up the normal high beam operation the same way.

What you need:

  • SPDT switch
  • T-tap
  • Soldering iron with solder, or fastons

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Installing Fog Lights on a LS Trailblazer

We just started to install fog lights on a '05 LS Trailblazer. The LS edition did not come with the fog lights, instead these locations on the bumpers were covered by a pseudo grill.

Here is a preview of the final result:

As featured on TrailVoy.com here.


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How to install an Overhead console in 93-95 Jeep Grand Cherokees (ZJ)

Some of the 1993-1995 Jeep Grand Cherokees came with the overhead console. Mine definitely didn't. Yet, I figured I'd be fun and a learning experience to pick a cheap one up from a wrecked Jeep and see if I could install it. There are 2 kinds, the short and the long overhead console. If you have a sunroof then you need the short overhead console, otherwise you need the long type. However, if you have a sunroof I believe the overhead console came with it so this guide most likely would not apply anyway. Now you could install a short overhead console in a Jeep without a sunroof, but you'd have a switch on there that would not be wired to anything. Also the color of the fabric of the overhead console does not matter too much as you can always change it with some headliner material and contact cement (I suggest Weldwood's).

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This project requires quite some time and wiring.


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