Why would you need Aux lighting Off Road

[pcarpenter]

So Chevy bills the ZR2 as an "Off Road Truck" yet there's no easy way to mount auxiliary lighting and there are no OEM Aux switches (like many competitors have). I just don't understand these decisions.

Sorry, was just in a situation where aux lighting would have been a big help. Needed to rant

 

[JaredW]

Ditch light brackets would be your easiest way.

They have an OEM Upfitter Switch you can buy and wire in. It's plug and play if you buy it from 404parts, or you can add 3 pins to the harness and put it all together yourself for considerably cheaper.

Agree that they needed to make provisions for light pods to be added reasonably easy!

 

[8ball_99]

They do have optional upfitter switches. The 22s didn't. But you can order them with the switches now, or just add them after the fact. Lights aren't hard to add. To be fair the factory headlights and mirror lights are pretty good. Rear lights suck, but I'm on my second ZR2 and I haven't bothered adding lights other then replacing the reverse lights.

 

[KLA]

They do have optional upfitter switches. The 22s didn't. But you can order them with the switches now, or just add them after the fact. Lights aren't hard to add. To be fair the factory headlights and mirror lights are pretty good. Rear lights suck, but I'm on my second ZR2 and I haven't bothered adding lights other then replacing the reverse lights.

What did you replace the reverse lights with?

 

[8ball_99]

What did you replace the reverse lights with?

There are lots of posts about bulbs now in the what have you done to your ZR2 thread. But that thread is like 80 pages now, haha. I put these in my 22 when I first got it. I was happy with them so I just reordered the same bulbs when I bought my 24 HD. They are very bright and aren't very expensive.

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[Leonidas]

I tend to agree here. Even my 2014 Raptor had prewired aux switches and locations for additional lighting. I see Tundras also offer the same. I did the Switch Pros on my ZR2 and I’m happy with that set up, but a factory set up, not after the fact, would make sense.

 

[AXE]

They do have optional upfitter switches. The 22s didn't. But you can order them with the switches now, or just add them after the fact. Lights aren't hard to add. To be fair the factory headlights and mirror lights are pretty good. Rear lights suck, but I'm on my second ZR2 and I haven't bothered adding lights other then replacing the reverse lights.

Get the Pod Holes lights for rear.

 

[8ball_99]

I tend to agree here. Even my 2024 Raptor had prewired aux switches and locations for additional lighting. I see Tundras also offer the same. I did the Switch Pros on my ZR2 and I’m happy with that set up, but a factory set up, not after the fact, would make sense.

That's what I was saying though. My 2024 HD ZR2 came with OEM upfitter switches from the factory. It's a option for 23+. The only ones who got screwed on that was people like me who bought a 22, lol. I actually did the first post on making the previous model upfitter switches work in the refreshed trucks. That was before GM released the current upfitter switches. I even mounted them in the same spot that GM eventually would put them. My HD came with them already mounted in the same spot under the climate controls. Ignore the bass knob I added but the switches came on the truck.

 

[Leonidas]

That's what I was saying though. My 2024 HD ZR2 came with OEM upfitter switches from the factory. It's an option for 23+. The only ones who got screwed on that was people like me who bought a 22, lol. I actually did the first post on making the previous model upfitter switches work in the refreshed trucks. That was before GM released the current upfitter switches. I even mounted them in the same spot that GM eventually would put them. My HD came with them already mounted in the same spot under the climate controls. Ignore the bass knob I added but the switches came on the truck.
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My ‘23 1500 ZR2 didn’t have this, would’ve been nice though.

 

[8ball_99]

My ‘23 1500 ZR2 didn’t have this, would’ve been nice though.

It's like a 150 dollar option. I guess you could say it should come standard on a ZR2 and be baked into the base price. But I mean people are different. I'm surprised the tech package and multiflex tailgate isn't standard with a ZR2. But not everyone wants to pay for those. On one hand Chevy lets you pick and choose individual options so you don't have to buy packages to get one option. Same time it makes it harder to get exactly what you want unless you factory order a truck and really pay attention on the order sheet.

On my HD I wanted Gas ZR2, Tech package, Multiflex, sunroof, Black badges, dual batteries, High amp alternator and upfitter switches. Obviously, to me that should all be standard cause that's what I want, lol. But I had a very hard time finding one like I wanted. I ended up with a snowplow prep package that I didn't want because it included the larger alternator. I had to add my own Aux battery and swap the badges out. Side effect to the snow plow prep package is pretty much everyone that had that also had the upfitter switches. It kind of helped in the search cause that one package usually meant switches and larger alternator. I was really surprised the Aux battery wasn't common. You would almost expect snowplow prep to just come with all three options as a package.