The bike rack on my Wife's JL Sport obstructs the third brake light which is mounted on a pedestal attached to the spare mount. I looked at simply raising the pedestal, seemed an easy project, but depending on the bike it may still be obscured and that would also put the light further into the rear window. I was not a fan of the OE relo kit as it is too cutesy w/ the little Jeep grille and I thought it was kludgey...and it is but also really clever.
The relo takes the light housing and places it on a powder coated aluminum frame that bolts to the outer ends of two special lug nuts that retain the spare. The feed for the light is then routed through the spokes, and I fully taped and later added wire loom to better protect the wires. It works, adds complexity to using the spare but Jeep does provide a neal little ratchet with the torx bits.
Stepping back, this seems like something British Leyland would have done back in the day
Maybe that's why I like it.
So, kludge or clever?
The relo takes the light housing and places it on a powder coated aluminum frame that bolts to the outer ends of two special lug nuts that retain the spare. The feed for the light is then routed through the spokes, and I fully taped and later added wire loom to better protect the wires. It works, adds complexity to using the spare but Jeep does provide a neal little ratchet with the torx bits.
Stepping back, this seems like something British Leyland would have done back in the day
Maybe that's why I like it.So, kludge or clever?
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