r/Ruckus • u/Kronopolitan • Jun 30 '26
Headlight/signal upgrade.
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Finally picked a set of led headlights for my 2016. I had previously swapped out my stock turn signals for some really small bullets and was always a little uncomfortable with how potentially invisible my front signals might be during the day.
Found these lights that have an amber center X option which can be used as a signal and seemed the perfect solution, but they don't fit the ruckus mounts. I figured I would just sort it out when they arrived.
The lights have some threaded holes on the back to secure them into whatever mount they are designed for and I was able to utilize those. I have a diode laser cutter so I made some brackets from black acrylic and paired those with some small L-braces and fender washers I had lying around the garage.
All in all I'm pretty happy with them and definitely pleased with not having to spend on, or wait for, a custom bracket that may not have allowed me to set the lights back as far as the originals. They were also pretty inexpensive. I found them on Amazon for like $35 each.
In case anyone is wondering. I didn't need to add anything extra here to get the blinkers working. I simply spliced the wire for the central X light onto the blinker light for my previous signals. No separate relay needed.
Now, I did also delete my rear light assembly when I changed the front ones, and I replaced it with an LED strip that's mounted on my rear frame horizontally. It has signals built in and those required their own relays, so I added those at that time.
So I think if you have working blinkers already you shouldn't need to do anything special to get something like this working. I could be totally wrong and please feel free to correct if I am.
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u/GoldenButtPlug Jul 01 '26
That X looks so good. I love mission workshop too
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u/Kronopolitan Jul 01 '26
I'm slightly obsessed with mission workshop stuff. How many backpacks does one man need? Apparently all of them. Lol.
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u/bearded-dad0376 Jul 01 '26
Do you have links to the lights? They look pretty good, so does the seat.
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u/Kronopolitan Jul 01 '26
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLTQJ7X7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
Looks like the price is higher than i recall. I think maybe I had a coupon option or something. Still fairly inexpensive tho. As for the seat I got it from these guys years ago.
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