Thank you. Just got in a 23 Colorado for a water utility customer wanting warning lights and he requested them to be on this button. I could not find where the single button cut wire was located. Now I can finish this truck to his liking.
OK that was funny. "If you do feel the need to hit the dislike button, make sure you do it twice so I'm doubly aware" HAHAHAHAHAHA I hit the like button twice because that was funny!
@Max-kn9yi what do you mean I didn't connect it? The white wire I pulled through the grommet was connected the the blunt cut blue wire I showed you under the dash. Watch the video all the way through without skipping. That way you won't miss anything.
My ZR2 came with the dealer installed 3 auxiliary buttons installed in the cab under the trailer brake controller. Stupid thing is that option is the buttons only as a part that doesn't include the accessorie power distribution box that goes under the hood to control the auxiliary buttons. That is only another 1000 doller option plus the dealerships install fee. This is a much less expensive option for ditch lights. I'll just ignore the other 3 usless buttons for now. Lol
I just got my Colorado, and found your channel. You’ve been a great help, given me ideas of what I want to do with my truck, how to do some things to my truck. Question did you ever get the leveling kit you were talking about developing, worked out? I’d be very interested in what you had in mind, because I’m not really all that thrilled with most of the leveling kits on the market.z. Thanks and I look forward to your future canyon/Colorado projects.
Congratulations and welcome. Yes. I have more components here on the shelf waiting for my truck to get back from the dealer and then I'll be able to shoot a video. It'll consist of a leveling and lifting heights to accommodate what you guys want to do.
Planning on retrofitting a garage door opener to the switch. I park outside and have valuables in garage so I'm need a discrete way of opening and closing garage only when car is on
I believe some have been able to get homelink to work. I have my garage door set up on a smart switch and I can literally just tell my phone to open or close the door. Doesn't work with the truck mic but I have a button on my home screen too. Might still be a way to make it work via the button.
They're always powered. If you have the factory ones you just touch the lens if memory serves. These aftermarket LEDs are way brighter than the factory option.
Can you explain what you mean by "immediately ground off the other side of the light"? If its possible a simple like ms paint wiring diagram would really help.
I have the power distribution box already installed. I assume they hooked this switch up to that. I can't find much of anything how to attach my ditch lights to that..I don't know much
Do you think I could wire it to turn on the cargo light that is already over the truck bed? I believe the only way to turn that on is through the touchscreen menu.
To clarify. The door sill pops up when using a plastic pry tool and the kick plate panel gets pulled backwards towards the seat to remove? I don’t want to bust clips as it feels like I might with the amount of force I’m putting on them. Thanks for any help man!
I don't have that issue. The cowls on these trucks were definitely installed poorly. Theres metal clips you can replace the plastic ones to keep the cowl wings attached.
@@BadlandIndustriesi saw the fuse integrated fuse in the relay, i just dont understand how it connects to the aux switch 😂(sorry i am a noob) where is the connector for the aux switch
@@JBB212 the aux switch is grounded after the switch. I would assume you would need to fuse the supply. The way I have it wired in the video, currently is still working flawlessly.
Hey man quick question, I noticed you took wire 86 and wired that to the ground trigger wire (to the switch) in the foot well. However, according to the relay's diagram on Amazon, it says wire 85 should go to the ground trigger source. They then have 86 going to battery, so I guess you swapped 86 and 85. Does this matter? I am also not very knowledgeable in wiring and all that, just wanted to see if you could shed some light.
85 and 86 are the opposite sides of the coil. If you energize one side you have to ground the other. Doesn't matter which. Energize one side off the battery and connect the other side to the blue wire. When you hit the aux switch it grounds out making connection inside the relay.
I was just going to take my Colorado to get my 40 inch light bar from GM and have them do it and apparently “it needs a code through GM” to access that aux button.
So, I am a little confused. After watching several times. The inside switch functions as an on off ground,? I run the ground wire to that factory aux switch, power with an inline fuse to my light ? Is the relay needed? Also what wire and where did you connect under the dash to make the aux switch work.
It is only a trigger wire and not intended to handle the entire load of whatever light you install. If you watched it several times and missed the little wire, you may want to watch the video without skipping around. At 6.40 I show you the exact wire to splice to. It's just a little wire oddly sticking out of the loom with a rubber cover on it. You'll have to look around to find it.
@@BadlandIndustriesI’ll need a relay then? And I saw the blue wire, I thought that was something else you had going on Power to the 2 relay points, Run power to lights, ground lights separate, run ground from relay to ground switch in truck, should make lights work
@@chadm6805 that blue wire is the ground. If you build the relay how I have it in the whiteboard diagram it'll work perfectly. This way there's no load on that blue wire and the relay is handling the light.
Does it make if I have 2 set of light that I wire both their white trigger wires spliced into that 1 aux ground trigger? That way the aux turns on all 4. Would two relays be needed still? What is the simplest way to go about it?
Maybe I'm not getting it..... I need to see the wire (ground) that the "AUX" switch has to run to the negative side of the relay ? Am I missing it in your video?
I’m wiring this up today to some rock lights with no luck. Everything wired how you have it but doesn’t seem like I’m getting a signal to the device through the red wire.
What rock lights did you get? Double check your relay pin numbers with the way you have it wired. Disregard the wire colors. 85 and 86 should be touching the positive to the battery and the wire under the dash. 30 should also be on the positive battery and your 87 goes to the positive of your rock lights. Then you simply need to ground the wire off your rock lights.
Yeah I had it wired that way. My issue may be that these are RGB rock lights with a control board. The wiring came plug n play not with open wire ends. I have a single wire with 4pin lead to the device. I wanted to splice into it but I want to be 100% sure I needed to and how to wire it before I do so. Any suggestions with the 4 pin plug wire?
I have the same thing with my mictunung rock lights. those turn on and off with the button but i can use an app to change them. in order to help you I need to understand what kit you're running.
So are you using a fuse tap for these lights or are you getting power directly from the blue wire. Because I was under the impression that I needed to pull fuse 41 and install a fuse tap.
So I wired it all up like you, but the switch will not power my light bar. I connected the other switch that came with the harness and it works fine. The light bar draws 16 amps, any chance that switch couldn’t handle it and that’s why it won’t work? I don’t have any real electrical knowledge, I just followed the video. Thanks!
My light bar came with it’s own switch. But the switch game with 3 wires. How do I connect the wires to use the trucks aux button instead, if the truck only has 1 wire to connect too?!?
you wont be able to use the new switch and this aux switch. youll need to have a remedial knowledge of how a relay works and you should be able to figure out what the wires do and how they will interact with the circuit i drew on the whiteboard.
Im getting an earlier model ZR2 sports bar that has KC lights on it. I plan on using this switch to power those. Just hope the brake light plug is compatible to the new model.
So I have the Desert Boss with the winch, power distribution box, and 3 button separate aux panel… problem here is Chevy and my dealer refuse to switch the buttons around to my liking… winch is on aux 1 and light bars are on the massive aux flip switch under the main infotainment screen. How easy would it be for me to move these? Winch to large aux flip switch and my light bars to aux 1?
One more thing, while adding additional lights to the power distribution box, do I need to be adding a in line fuse and new relay (relay / fuse box better idea) for each additional lighting upgrade?
I cant find them anymore. Also my driver side is noticeably dimmer than the passenger. I need to find some leds to mod the other cubes so I don't strobe white/red and get in trouble.
@@BadlandIndustries I figured, however you should start with that, video comes across like it’s just so you are able to flip between the colour of lights, you should have made the video from scratch in my opinion. Really do appreciate the content just seems a little unclear!
@MrPetyz I see that. The point of the video is you can use that one switch (and certain lights) to increase the functionality without needing to install the $500 gm upfitter relay box or even the auxbeam switch panel to control multiple lights. 1 switch, one light multiple modes gives you the cheapest install with the most functionality
I love diy’ers. All those wires hanging everywhere, not routing wires clean, poking holes with knives, buying anything on Amazon to save a dollar on Chinese garbage, so sloppy. 😂
I really appreciate the video but I could not for the life of me get this configuration to work with my ditch lights. Going to give up and use the switch that came with my rigid dss lights like some sort of monster.
I wired up the relay as shown and there’s a blue, red, and black wire from the harness. I connected the blue from the harness to the exposed wire on the passenger side, grounded the black, and left red unconnected but it didn’t work. Swapped black and blue wires and still nothing. Tried red connected, black grounded, blue unconnected and still nothing. My first thought was maybe my ground wasn’t adequate but I tested it with the rigid switch and it worked so I have no idea
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Thank you. Just got in a 23 Colorado for a water utility customer wanting warning lights and he requested them to be on this button. I could not find where the single button cut wire was located. Now I can finish this truck to his liking.
OK that was funny. "If you do feel the need to hit the dislike button, make sure you do it twice so I'm doubly aware"
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I hit the like button twice because that was funny!
Gotta show love to the haters too lol
Thank you been waiting for this video for my aux button lol
Hope it was helpful.
@Max-kn9yi what do you mean I didn't connect it? The white wire I pulled through the grommet was connected the the blunt cut blue wire I showed you under the dash. Watch the video all the way through without skipping. That way you won't miss anything.
Thank you. this was like the 3rd video I watched..once you started talking about the other switch.. I stopped...thx for video!
Thanks for being such an informative fella! Always quality stuff from you!
Happy to help!
I really was just very confused by the whole video.
Sorry for that. Watch it again maybe it'll come to you.
The Auxiliary switch is for the light bar from the factory on the Desert Boss.
They likely hooked it up just like this.
Nice video. Thank you for the insight. I might hook up some perimeter lights for camping use. 😊
That's a great use of that switch. If you happen to need more switches you may want to watch the video that's going up tomorrow.
My ZR2 came with the dealer installed 3 auxiliary buttons installed in the cab under the trailer brake controller. Stupid thing is that option is the buttons only as a part that doesn't include the accessorie power distribution box that goes under the hood to control the auxiliary buttons. That is only another 1000 doller option plus the dealerships install fee.
This is a much less expensive option for ditch lights. I'll just ignore the other 3 usless buttons for now. Lol
You could just sell those switches and then use that money to buy the lower trim under dash cover
ha genius on tapping the hole - that nut is out of room with the brackets installed.
I just got my Colorado, and found your channel. You’ve been a great help, given me ideas of what I want to do with my truck, how to do some things to my truck. Question did you ever get the leveling kit you were talking about developing, worked out? I’d be very interested in what you had in mind, because I’m not really all that thrilled with most of the leveling kits on the market.z. Thanks and I look forward to your future canyon/Colorado projects.
Congratulations and welcome. Yes. I have more components here on the shelf waiting for my truck to get back from the dealer and then I'll be able to shoot a video. It'll consist of a leveling and lifting heights to accommodate what you guys want to do.
@@BadlandIndustries I will definitely look forward to those. Thanks for the update.
Planning on retrofitting a garage door opener to the switch. I park outside and have valuables in garage so I'm need a discrete way of opening and closing garage only when car is on
I believe some have been able to get homelink to work. I have my garage door set up on a smart switch and I can literally just tell my phone to open or close the door. Doesn't work with the truck mic but I have a button on my home screen too. Might still be a way to make it work via the button.
Nicely done. If bedlights are installed from the factory, how are they switched?
To the Aux or to the infotainment center?
They're always powered. If you have the factory ones you just touch the lens if memory serves. These aftermarket LEDs are way brighter than the factory option.
@@BadlandIndustries thanks
Can you explain what you mean by "immediately ground off the other side of the light"? If its possible a simple like ms paint wiring diagram would really help.
Ground it as close to the light as your can. No sense adding unnecessary wiring.
I have the power distribution box already installed. I assume they hooked this switch up to that. I can't find much of anything how to attach my ditch lights to that..I don't know much
You will have to add pins to the connector on the side of the upfitter distribution box.
Mine worked well. Then after a day or so it cut out. Where is the fuse for this?
Did you use the blue wire under the dash to send the load of the lights? It's meant only for the trigger wire.
@@BadlandIndustries yes I used the trigger wire. It randomly shut off as I was driving and now the wire doesn’t work at all.
Do you think I could wire it to turn on the cargo light that is already over the truck bed? I believe the only way to turn that on is through the touchscreen menu.
I'm sure you could. I need to look into the schematics to see how that light is actually switched.
To clarify. The door sill pops up when using a plastic pry tool and the kick plate panel gets pulled backwards towards the seat to remove? I don’t want to bust clips as it feels like I might with the amount of force I’m putting on them. Thanks for any help man!
Yea start at the rear and lift the sill up. Once you get to the kick panel it'll need to be pulled rearward
I installed those same brackets and it pulls down on the cowl on the passenger side exposing the bottom edge of my windshield
I don't have that issue. The cowls on these trucks were definitely installed poorly. Theres metal clips you can replace the plastic ones to keep the cowl wings attached.
Great video and very helpful! Is there a specific fuse ( if there’s any number labeled) i should connect to use the aux switch?❤
It's already integrated. Just fuse whatever you're powering. I like the fused relay for this application.
@@BadlandIndustriesi saw the fuse integrated fuse in the relay, i just dont understand how it connects to the aux switch 😂(sorry i am a noob) where is the connector for the aux switch
@@JBB212 the aux switch is grounded after the switch. I would assume you would need to fuse the supply. The way I have it wired in the video, currently is still working flawlessly.
I wired it wrong. It worked a few times and stopped working. Do you know where the fuse is for this switch? Thanks in advance and great video!
I dont have the fuse box layout at my finger tips. You should be able to walk through the fuse box layout and find it.
Cool thanks.
I want to use it to hook up so lights
Let me know when u get some time
What do you want to know?
@@BadlandIndustries which amp should I use in the fuse box in order to utilize the AUX button
How do you find the wire or access the auxiliary switch under your infotainment center to hook up lights like you did for your ditch lights?
That's what this entire video is about. Watch it through without skipping around.
Hey man quick question, I noticed you took wire 86 and wired that to the ground trigger wire (to the switch) in the foot well. However, according to the relay's diagram on Amazon, it says wire 85 should go to the ground trigger source. They then have 86 going to battery, so I guess you swapped 86 and 85. Does this matter? I am also not very knowledgeable in wiring and all that, just wanted to see if you could shed some light.
85 and 86 are the opposite sides of the coil. If you energize one side you have to ground the other. Doesn't matter which. Energize one side off the battery and connect the other side to the blue wire. When you hit the aux switch it grounds out making connection inside the relay.
I was just going to take my Colorado to get my 40 inch light bar from GM and have them do it and apparently “it needs a code through GM” to access that aux button.
That's not true. They all say you'll need the $500 5 button upfitter switch panel. You can see I did it with a $5 relay and some wires.
So, I am a little confused. After watching several times. The inside switch functions as an on off ground,? I run the ground wire to that factory aux switch, power with an inline fuse to my light ? Is the relay needed? Also what wire and where did you connect under the dash to make the aux switch work.
It is only a trigger wire and not intended to handle the entire load of whatever light you install. If you watched it several times and missed the little wire, you may want to watch the video without skipping around. At 6.40 I show you the exact wire to splice to. It's just a little wire oddly sticking out of the loom with a rubber cover on it. You'll have to look around to find it.
@@BadlandIndustriesI’ll need a relay then? And I saw the blue wire, I thought that was something else you had going on Power to the 2 relay points, Run power to lights, ground lights separate, run ground from relay to ground switch in truck, should make lights work
@@chadm6805 that blue wire is the ground. If you build the relay how I have it in the whiteboard diagram it'll work perfectly. This way there's no load on that blue wire and the relay is handling the light.
Does it make if I have 2 set of light that I wire both their white trigger wires spliced into that 1 aux ground trigger? That way the aux turns on all 4. Would two relays be needed still? What is the simplest way to go about it?
If you want them to all come on at the same time yes you can use the 1 relay unless the wattage is over the relays rating.
Maybe I'm not getting it..... I need to see the wire (ground) that the "AUX" switch has to run to the negative side of the relay ? Am I missing it in your video?
Relays don't have a negative side. They are simply a pass through device. I thought the whiteboard diagram was pretty clear.
I’m wiring this up today to some rock lights with no luck. Everything wired how you have it but doesn’t seem like I’m getting a signal to the device through the red wire.
What rock lights did you get? Double check your relay pin numbers with the way you have it wired. Disregard the wire colors. 85 and 86 should be touching the positive to the battery and the wire under the dash. 30 should also be on the positive battery and your 87 goes to the positive of your rock lights. Then you simply need to ground the wire off your rock lights.
Yeah I had it wired that way. My issue may be that these are RGB rock lights with a control board. The wiring came plug n play not with open wire ends. I have a single wire with 4pin lead to the device. I wanted to splice into it but I want to be 100% sure I needed to and how to wire it before I do so.
Any suggestions with the 4 pin plug wire?
@dominickelly5429 what kit?
I already installed it and it works, I would just prefer to use the given AUX button over what it came with.
I have the same thing with my mictunung rock lights. those turn on and off with the button but i can use an app to change them. in order to help you I need to understand what kit you're running.
What is the part number for the relay in this video? I’d like to use this aux button to tune on my driving lights
As with most youtube videos there are links in the video description directing you to the parts used in the video.
Hey , good video, did you show did how to connect the 86 wire to the aux button? Thanks
Just a butt splice connector. 8.22 time stamp.
@@BadlandIndustries
In the video you did not show the end wire of the auxiliary switch . Is there a wire or is it in the fuse box?
@@user-lu9dv3tq2n at 6.33 I show you the blue wire you're attaching to. It's sticking out of the wire loom under the kick-panel.
So are you using a fuse tap for these lights or are you getting power directly from the blue wire. Because I was under the impression that I needed to pull fuse 41 and install a fuse tap.
@@gianfrancoaffrunti9775 nope at 3:34 I start showing you how to with up the relay
My pod light came with a switch button with 3 wires black/blue/white which color wire should i connect ?
Since you want it to be wired to the aux switch in the truck you won't use the provided switch.
So I wired it all up like you, but the switch will not power my light bar. I connected the other switch that came with the harness and it works fine. The light bar draws 16 amps, any chance that switch couldn’t handle it and that’s why it won’t work? I don’t have any real electrical knowledge, I just followed the video. Thanks!
Are you using a relay?
Yes, the harness has one.
@adamstafford6801 and you powered both the leg side and coil side of the relay. Take a look again at the white board wiring diagram.
My light bar came with it’s own switch. But the switch game with 3 wires. How do I connect the wires to use the trucks aux button instead, if the truck only has 1 wire to connect too?!?
you wont be able to use the new switch and this aux switch. youll need to have a remedial knowledge of how a relay works and you should be able to figure out what the wires do and how they will interact with the circuit i drew on the whiteboard.
Dude ! Where’s the switch panel bezel for the vent , I need !
Coming soon buddy.
Trying to decide between a light bar or ditch lights
Light bar is great for straight on and the ditch are great for local light off to the sides. Just depends on what you need the light for.
@@BadlandIndustries planning on some overlanding in the spring..
Im getting an earlier model ZR2 sports bar that has KC lights on it. I plan on using this switch to power those. Just hope the brake light plug is compatible to the new model.
the 3rd brake light is the same as the 2nd gen
Blue wire with heat shrink was there from factory?
Yessir. It's called out in the factory wire diagrams.
So I have the Desert Boss with the winch, power distribution box, and 3 button separate aux panel… problem here is Chevy and my dealer refuse to switch the buttons around to my liking… winch is on aux 1 and light bars are on the massive aux flip switch under the main infotainment screen. How easy would it be for me to move these? Winch to large aux flip switch and my light bars to aux 1?
You would essentially just re-pin the connector off your box to re-order the switches or what they power
@@BadlandIndustries ok cool, so really the power distribution box is all pre wired for the switches ready to go
@@RockyMTNnative it should be.
@@BadlandIndustries thank you 🙌
One more thing, while adding additional lights to the power distribution box, do I need to be adding a in line fuse and new relay (relay / fuse box better idea) for each additional lighting upgrade?
2:58 where do i find the wire to connect "86" to the aux switch ?
Gotta watch the whole thing. I show you at 6:30
Just like a few of these A$$ Hat companies want $200-$400 for a $70 pair of rubber mud flaps!
Yea you just gotta be a little wary these days.
Is that not the button to power the bed 120v outlet????
Nope. That is automatically powered while the truck is running.
@@BadlandIndustrieswhich its too bad that outlet doesn’t just always have power! Would be cool if the aux switch did it too.
@@nickisgroovy3648 I'm sure there might be a way to add an aux input to the inverter.
Link for the lights?
I cant find them anymore. Also my driver side is noticeably dimmer than the passenger. I need to find some leds to mod the other cubes so I don't strobe white/red and get in trouble.
Sorry this is without the 500 dollar distribution box right
yes thats the entire purpose of this video
@@BadlandIndustries I figured, however you should start with that, video comes across like it’s just so you are able to flip between the colour of lights, you should have made the video from scratch in my opinion. Really do appreciate the content just seems a little unclear!
@MrPetyz I see that. The point of the video is you can use that one switch (and certain lights) to increase the functionality without needing to install the $500 gm upfitter relay box or even the auxbeam switch panel to control multiple lights. 1 switch, one light multiple modes gives you the cheapest install with the most functionality
that ain't a temp fix 🤣
Wiring is temporary
It’s called the poverty button because, you’ll pay enough to GM for the use of this button to send you into poverty!😅😂😂🤣🤣
Yep. I figured it out on the cheap.
I love diy’ers. All those wires hanging everywhere, not routing wires clean, poking holes with knives, buying anything on Amazon to save a dollar on Chinese garbage, so sloppy. 😂
Hey man, I asked you not to judge me lol. Thx for the comment
I really appreciate the video but I could not for the life of me get this configuration to work with my ditch lights. Going to give up and use the switch that came with my rigid dss lights like some sort of monster.
How much of the provided harness are you using? You need to ground the trigger with the blue wire under the dash.
I wired up the relay as shown and there’s a blue, red, and black wire from the harness. I connected the blue from the harness to the exposed wire on the passenger side, grounded the black, and left red unconnected but it didn’t work. Swapped black and blue wires and still nothing. Tried red connected, black grounded, blue unconnected and still nothing. My first thought was maybe my ground wasn’t adequate but I tested it with the rigid switch and it worked so I have no idea
@@backsideslash you'll have to determine what those wires do and how that harness is wired.