Bed Lights Installed 2020 2500

[blbrown]

Installed the Mopar bed light kit yesterday in my 2020 2500 Laramie.
Was pretty tight getting to the connector on the firewall in front of the parking break, but doable. I searched for info on the settings in Alfaobd to enable them, the instructions require Dealer programming, but I couldn't find anything. I went ahead and tried one setting for Bed Lights which made the bed switch work, but it only turned on the third brake light cargo light and not the new bed lights. I thought my next option would be asking the Dealer if they could program, but I tried one more time reviewing all the available options in Alfaobd, found one more that looked like it was related and Yea!! It made the new bed lights work!
The two Bed Light settings show in this picture get changed to "Yes" in Alfaobd and your good to go. I searched for the word Bed to easily find the two settings.

 

[Catmechanic]

Link to the kit? I wanted to buy these but they were always backordered

 

[blbrown]

Here is the part # and the Vendor info for the kit I installed.

 

[blbrown]

Part on Vendor Site

 

[Catmechanic]

Excellent, thank you sir!

 

[blbrown]

One more additional note regarding my install. Both connectors, the one in the fuse box and the one in the cab had existing wires that I spliced into the new wires. The wire in the fuse box matched the color of the wire in the kit but the wire in the connector in the cab did not match the wire color in the kit, spliced anyway and all working.

 

[Catmechanic]

Installed mine today. Thank you for the note about wire colors, mine were the same way.

I'd like to strangle the engineer who put that module above the brake. I had more time in splicing that one wire than the entire rest of the install.

 

[blbrown]

I totally understand and agree, wasn't at all easy for this 67 year old body!

 

[dogsoldier]

Hello. Did you have to use a gateway security bypass cable to use alphaobd? I saw the options to activate the bed lights for my 2020 2500 Bighorn 6.7 diesel but alphaobd could not make the change.

 

[blbrown]

Hello. Did you have to use a gateway security bypass cable to use alphaobd? I saw the options to activate the bed lights for my 2020 2500 Bighorn 6.7 diesel but alphaobd could not make the change.

Yes you need the Security bypass cable. Purchased mine at https://www.kaodtech.com/

 

[K9meiko]

Sir,

This is all new to me and the terms since i'm not a mechanic. I'm thinking of tackling this project and was curious what the Alfabod is? what the total amounbt paid after wire harness and the bypass and programmer?

Thk you in advance, Ken

 

[mountainears]

Cable is about -$50
OBDLink MX+ ~$140
AlphaODB -$50

So getting close to $300 for it all.

Then you’ll spend a bit of time just figuring things out. I’m an IT guy…. It’s not the most intuitive software in the world.


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[CdnHO]

I totally understand and agree, wasn't at all easy for this 67 year old body!

Think it is bad now? Wait until you hit 75.