Ashton
Senior Member
Hi all, just want to thank everyone in the community with all the great threads and info that is shared on here. It gives me great pleasure to give back to the community with something no one has posted a DIY about. So without further ado, here's the DIY for adding the oem hood light option for 18.5 Ram 1500's (possibly 2500/3500 but can’t say for sure) and 19+ Classic Rams. Most Ram owners were upset to see that for whatever reason, FCA has decided to remove the harness prep for the hood light option after about mid 18 model year. So I saw a lot of guys wiring in strip leds and all sorts of other things but I like the simplicity of the OEM design. So determined I took it upon myself to figure it out. So I went to my local u-pull and found some base model 4th gen rams that didn’t have the light option itself but did have the harness prep we are after. This one happened to be a 2017 Ram 1500 with the hemi engine (which was long gone along with the whole front end). I mention the engine because the ecodiesel harness is differently oriented and if you want all the clips and look OEM its best to get the right one for your truck's engine option. I think only the ecodiesel is different, while the pentastar and hemi are the same.
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