INSTALL WRITEUP

So here is the write up to my install.

Tools needed:

10mm Socket
7mm Socket
t-20 Torx Bit

Socket/wrenches/ torx screwdriver

Depending on your method of wiring: Crimps/ ends / etc for the electrical work.

First, identify the bolts that are going to be removed. I have highlighted them with an arrow. In total you should have removed a combination mix of 10 bolts/screws
2- 7mm bolts
4 -10mm bolts
4 - t20 Torx Screws

This bolt is towards the center of the truck closer towards the license plate area and is bolted from the top side down.

This 7mm bolt is at the top of the step "pocket" near the license plate

Once all of these bolts are removed, the whole step/ step pocket is able to be removed.

But first, you need to pop the outer side bumper trim off the step pocket. It is just held by plastic tabs/clips. Just pull at the side piece and it should come loose. It wont come off completely but you need the side loose because you need to pull at it while removing the step / step pocket piece to allow it to come out since it is tucked behind it.

This part:

Now pull the step out towards the rear and to the side. It should pop out, but some force might be needed.


Once you get the step off you can flip it over and see a tab that holds the lower step onto the step pocket.

Push this tab down and slide the lower step until it clears this tab. It kinda slides like a rail. It will only slide to a certain point and then you can pull the lower step from the step pocket.

In order to install the new ANZO step, you need to trim a small piece on the step pocket piece. This is because the new ANZO step has the lights and those lights sit in a pocket that interferes with the install of the new step. If you don't trim this piece the new step wont slide into place all the way.

Trim this area :

Because of this problem:

I outlined where you need to trim and laid a tape measure so you can see how much I trimmed. I probably could have trimmed a bit less so make your own decision on how much to trim if you want.

Once that piece is trimmed, the new step can slide completely into the step pocket.

Piece after trimming:

You can now reinstall the assembled step back on the truck. Make sure that the tabs near the license plate side of the plastic piece slide behind the bumper. You also need to pry at that side bumper trim as you install the step piece so that it can clear it.

Once installed in the bumper, tighten all the bolts back. I started with the top 7mm bolt near the license plate because it tightens the gap where the plastic piece is near the license plate on the outside. Push the step pocket towards the truck to make sure that no gap is present near where the plastic piece and metal bumper meet.

This bolt from earlier you should do first:

I would leave the 3 torx screws in the step pocket for last.


Hopefully all the bolts will go back in. In my case one of the bolts didn't line up. The steel frame under the step hits the LED light cutout and it prevented me from sliding the step in any further to align the hole. I had to leave 1 bolt out on both sides because of this problem.

This is the bolt that didn't line up anymore. The clip with the threads didn't line up with the hole in the step and the hole in the step pocket. It fits when its off the truck but once I installed it the steel bumper frame under the step kept it from aligning.

In additional to all of this, I added a bead of clear silicone along the edges of the light lens. I did this because I noticed that the lens became loose during install on the corners. So I decided to add some silicone to try to keep these as waterproof as possible. I have read about the Silverado version getting water/condensation in them and I'm trying avoid that to prevent LED failure.



WIRING

These lights can be wired in two ways, either by connecting to the tail lights or connecting to the trailer tow harness.


Correction: Pending write up in the wiring. I'm trying to see what it should be. Connecting the turn signal wire from the step lights is causing braking to be orange. If I leave it disconnected, brake lights turn red, but I lose orange colored turn signals and sequential feature

If you were going to wire into the tail lights, you would run the wires from the steps up towards the taillights.

Based on Blue15COloradoLT’s previous post here (http://coloradofans.com/forums/201-...nd-gen-electronics-audio-lighting/286601-how-add-resistors-led-tail-lights.html)
Black = Negative
Gray = Brake Light / Turn Signal Positive
Orange = Tail Light Positive
Yellow = Reverse light Positive.


So functions will be :
•Dim red running
•Brighter red Brake
•red turn signal (on off)
•White reverse.




Here is a video of the functions as I have it wired right now

https://youtu.be/Ihh6eqszaYE

 

Based on Blue15COloradoLT’s previous post here (http://coloradofans.com/forums/201-...nd-gen-electronics-audio-lighting/286601-how-add-resistors-led-tail-lights.html)
Black = Negative
Gray = Brake Light / Turn Signal Positive
Orange = Tail Light Positive
Yellow = Reverse light Positive.


So functions will be :
•Dim red running
•Brighter red Brake
•red turn signal (on off)
•White reverse.

Hey Spoonman, Sorry to bring up an old thread!

Just to clarify, did you just T-tap the wires based on their label from Anzo & the colored wires blue provided above?

Also, any further updates after another year with the step lights??

Thanks a ton for the detailed write up!

 

I look forward to your review and some installed pictures

 

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I really like the look of the steps. The wiring should be easy, but will the bumper need to be removed to install?

 

We will find out!

Like I said, it didn't have instructions. But I took a look at the bumper and either just the step part needs to come out or the whole foot step area.

Ill have a better idea Friday. I'm waiting for some parts to come in to install it.

 

The problem with all the abs stuff is it turns grey over time, no uv protection


I purchased a complete set of rear and and sent them off to hydrodipping in carbon fiber finish with satin uv spray coating


I think the front spoiler and fog light bezels will look the best in this finish..


I look forward toyour install info..


GB

 

Definitely looking forward to seeing these installed! I might take the time this weekend to take the step off of the Canyon and verify fitment for that as well before trying to order. I found hem at work, and the part number is good, but they are saying no availability yet.

 

Spoonman, definitely keep us updated. Anzo never replied to my request a month ago about the aftermarket headlights, but these are on my list.
I want to say it would probably make it easier to install by going ahead and removing the bumper. The bumper is held on by some pretty large bolts that were a MAJOR pain to get off with a ratchet. I recommend a powerful air ratchet. I think they have the OEM step secured in one spot with a rivet. That annoyed me.

 

Anzo probably didn’t reply because of a GM Patent issue. I recently called them regarding tail lights, and they informed me that they had to pull them along with the headlights from the market because of a conflict in design with GM. They told me that they are currently redesigning both and will be available in the fall.
That’s why some of the tail lights and headlights are only listed on their site up to the 2017 model year.

 

Are they available for purchase? Link?

 

Jegs has them. $62 with "free" shipping; they add a $7.99 handling charge. $69.99 total.

Anzo 861171, | Anzo

 

Just ordered mine. $100.72

 

Can't wait to see some pics of these installed!

 

Just got these installed. Got mixed feelings about them.

Here are the pictures and review

So install took me a while. But since there weren't any instructions yet I had to play around with it to find out what to remove and how.

Fitment: I give it 3.5-4 stars / 5

I wonder if they even had a Colorado to test fit these on when the made them or if they just went by the stock piece and molded it from there. The step piece required some trimming (very little but some) to fit due to the fact that the light indents into the back of the step. That indent wouldn't let the piece slide into place. Took me a while to figure this out because I kept on trying to push it in place and it wouldn't fit. That was when I noticed that the indent of the light "bucket" prevented it from sliding into place without the trimming.

Once I got that then came putting the step back on. Again, I wonder if they test fit this on an actual truck. The light bucket again prevented the light/foot piece from installing 100% in place. The light bucket hits the metal baseplate so I was left with 1 bolt left over on each side. I tried and tried but could not get the step to push in enough for that one bolt to fit. I couldn't get the bolt in because that particular one used a c-clip type metal clip that houses the thread for the bolt. Since it didn't light up I couldn't even get the bolt to line up with the c-clip threads.

Same thing with one of the little bolts on one side. Maybe it was manufacturing tolerance but again one of the c-clips wouldn't light up.

These fitment issues is why I docked it 1.5 points.


Quality: 3.8 stars/ 5

The step itself feels like the same plastic as the stock step. It has the same texture on the step portion and is close in color (it is a little darker, but it could be that the stock part was also already fading.

The place where I docked it was the wiring ends. The wires felt too small in gauge for me. I crimped on some connectors in my install but would have preferred some thicker wires for peace of mind.

Another thing, the lens is held in place by black silicone. During install, I guess from trying to figure everything out and how it fit the lens started to pop off on one of the corners. At the end I ran a bead of additional silicone to protect it from water as I don't think the internal LEDS are waterproof since it looks like a plain board and no gel coat.


Function:3.75 stars / 5

This is one part where I gotta double check with someone else that gets these. What made me dock a point is that the way I have it wired, brake lights turn on but are orange in color. Parking lights are red, reverse is white, and turn signal with lights are is an alternating red/orange.

Turn signals by themselves are a cool sequential blinker.

I tried swapping the leads around but couldn't get red to be brake light. The only thing I can think of is that the LEDs don't have variable brightness, so they are wired to turn orange since if the lights are on, they are already red and cant get any brighter to signal brake vs parking light function

I docked it .25 points because I get interference in my backup cam. Its got a bit of snow when it turns on. I double checked my connections and they all seem tight.

I wired them to my trailer plug so maybe if someone wires them to the tail lights they can chime in on how theirs works.

*EDIT*

I just learned that these have to be wired to the tail light to function properly. I finally found out how to get a red brake light to function. Ill update this section of the review when I see if that solves my issue with the brake light color and reverse interference.


Ill have an install writeup soon. And also a video, it just that its not dark enough yet.

 

Just got these installed. Got mixed feelings about them.

Here are the pictures and review

So install took me a while. But since there weren't any instructions yet I had to play around with it to find out what to remove and how.

Fitment: I give it 3.5-4 stars / 5

I wonder if they even had a Colorado to test fit these on when the made them or if they just went by the stock piece and molded it from there. The step piece required some trimming (very little but some) to fit due to the fact that the light indents into the back of the step. That indent wouldn't let the piece slide into place. Took me a while to figure this out because I kept on trying to push it in place and it wouldn't fit. That was when I noticed that the indent of the light "bucket" prevented it from sliding into place without the trimming.

Once I got that then came putting the step back on. Again, I wonder if they test fit this on an actual truck. The light bucket again prevented the light/foot piece from installing 100% in place. The light bucket hits the metal baseplate so I was left with 1 bolt left over on each side. I tried and tried but could not get the step to push in enough for that one bolt to fit. I couldn't get the bolt in because that particular one used a c-clip type metal clip that houses the thread for the bolt. Since it didn't light up I couldn't even get the bolt to line up with the c-clip threads.

Same thing with one of the little bolts on one side. Maybe it was manufacturing tolerance but again one of the c-clips wouldn't light up.

These fitment issues is why I docked it 1.5 points.


Quality: 3.8 stars/ 5

The step itself feels like the same plastic as the stock step. It has the same texture on the step portion and is close in color (it is a little darker, but it could be that the stock part was also already fading.

The place where I docked it was the wiring ends. The wires felt too small in gauge for me. I crimped on some connectors in my install but would have preferred some thicker wires for peace of mind.

Another thing, the lens is held in place by black silicone. During install, I guess from trying to figure everything out and how it fit the lens started to pop off on one of the corners. At the end I ran a bead of additional silicone to protect it from water as I don't think the internal LEDS are waterproof since it looks like a plain board and no gel coat.


Function:3.75 stars / 5

This is one part where I gotta double check with someone else that gets these. What made me dock a point is that the way I have it wired, brake lights turn on but are orange in color. Parking lights are red, reverse is white, and turn signal with lights are is an alternating red/orange.

Turn signals by themselves are a cool sequential blinker.

I tried swapping the leads around but couldn't get red to be brake light. The only thing I can think of is that the LEDs don't have variable brightness, so they are wired to turn orange since if the lights are on, they are already red and cant get any brighter to signal brake vs parking light function

I docked it .25 points because I get interference in my backup cam. Its got a bit of snow when it turns on. I double checked my connections and they all seem tight.

I wired them to my trailer plug so maybe if someone wires them to the tail lights they can chime in on how theirs works.


Ill have an install writeup soon. And also a video, it just that its not dark enough yet.

Thx for very good reviw.

 

I would think that you need a CHMSL feed for the brake lights to work properly. Or at least tie the lights into their respective L & R taillight wiring harness. Not sure the trailer wiring will give a brake light input that is independent from the turn signals.

You might be getting orange from red and yellow coming on at the same time under braking.

I ordered a set and will likely use only the sequential turn signal feature. The other lights will be used as auxiliary flashing lighting controlled by a separate controller.

 

It's almost like they are "global" light sets. In the United States manufacturers very rarely use amber on the rear of a vehicle.

If the lights had two sets of red and no amber then you could have one red on as running, two on for stop (brighter intensity), and combo for blinking with brakes. The amber just kinda varies from what is standard in the US.

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Trailers use the same wire for turns and brake on each side. If you are hooking to truck's trailer harness you will get red turns, and brake.

 

Just wired to the tail lights and same situation.

If I leave the turn signal wire from the step lights disconnected, I get : dim parking, bright red brake, red turn signal (non sequential).

If I connect the turn signal wire from the steps to the turn signal wire on the lights I get : dim parking, orange brake, sequential turn signal orange or if the lights are on alternating orange/red sequential.

Starting to think the issue might be our tail lights. I know on my old truck (Nissan), only 1 of the bulbs was just turn signal. But in ours, both bulbs are all parking/brake/turn signal. So no matter where I wire the yellow turn signal input from the steps, it will get power when brakes are applied since brake sends power to both bulbs.

That's just my thinking, but I'm no electrical expert. If there was an independent bulb/wire just for turn signals I don't think I would be having an issue. But the thing is that there are only 4 wires coming to the tail light harness, Ground (to all 3 bulbs), reverse, park lamp, and brake. That's how its listed in the upfitters manual as well.

I gave Anzo a call and they said they would call me back once they looked into it further.

 

Maybe use the center brake light wire for a feed to the "brake" wire on the Anzos. Then for turn signals use the brake/TS wire from the taillights.

I only intend to hook up the sequential turn signals to the vehicle wiring. The other useable features of the Anzos will be triggered with a different LED flasher module from my master controller.

 

@spoonman have you been able to snag any night shots yet?

 

Ill try to post some soon

it might be just me but the new piece looks to be more darker then the rest of the step

It is slightly darker. But I'm not sure if it because the steps are new and the rest of the stock bucket is already weather/sun worn.

 

it might be just me but the new piece looks to be more darker then the rest of the step

 

UPDATE:

Been talking with Anzo and the vendor (and the vendor has been talking to the manufacturer).

Looks like these will only work without amber/orange turn signals. This also means blinkers will not be sequential.


So functions will be :

• Dim red running
• Brighter red Brake
• red turn signal (on off)
• White reverse.

This is what the vendor told me after they tested another set:

We tested it, and know what’s wrong, all US version tail lights does not required to have amber , so the brake and signal are on the same wire, for your tail lights, there’s only 3 wires, one reverse , one for (brake/signal), and one for parking. It is a design error, this rear step LEDs may work on European version which requires amber signal at the rear, but it surely won’t work for the US version. No matter how you connects the signal, to brake or parking , it will not work correctly, seems like you can only disable the amber wire, can only have brake, reverse and parking function.

We’ll let manufacturer know about the issue, see if there’s a way to have the signal work , will let you know once they replied.

So for the time being that's the way they are going to work.

Ill get an updated video of the functions posted soon. I took off the one I had because it showed the orange light problem.

 

UPDATE:

Been talking with Anzo and the vendor (and the vendor has been talking to the manufacturer).

Looks like these will only work without amber/orange turn signals. This also means blinkers will not be sequential.


So functions will be :

• Dim red running
• Brighter red Brake
• red turn signal (on off)
• White reverse.

This is what the vendor told me after they tested another set:





So for the time being that's the way they are going to work.

Ill get an updated video of the functions posted soon. I took off the one I had because it showed the orange light problem.

I plan on using only the sequential turn signal feature. All the other lights will be re-purposed to work with my warning light system.

There are several trailer light adapters, but they do the opposite. They convert the separate turn signal/brake light (Euro style) inputs to the simple 3 wire 9combined) output for common trailer wiring.

 

With as much as you've tried, it might have been easiest to simply run turn signal wires from the front at this point. You could also get a clean(no turn signal) brake signal from the third brake light, but I'm not certain that's necessary as long as you get a separate signal for the blinkers from the front. It's alot of work, but probably the only way to make them function 100% like you want.

 

Brake lights on the tail light harness are also turn signals. Anything you hook up to this wire on the truck will flash (red in this case) when the turnsignal is used. The front turn signal parallel hook up to the anzo amber sequential (yellow) wire will work great.


You can not stop the red brake light from flashing with turn signals unless youi tap into the 3rd brake light over the cab. This is the correct fix that @onebaddz and others suggested.


Get the turn signal feeds from the front turn signals.
Get the brake light feed from the third brake light and connect it to both anzo blue wires.


My thoughts are to not hook up any brake lights. I think the bright red brake LEDs will severly affect the perceived brightness of the yellow sequential turn signals.

 

Yep, this sounds like its going to be the only correct way to get all the functions to work . I'm content with they way I have it wired now (no yellow turns, flashing red turn signals). Plus having to run wires from the front turn signals and the rear high mount brake light is way more work than I feel like doing.

Id actually rather just leave it as is because since there is no yellow light in the rear, id rather have all the lights red.

But at least we figured this all out with everyones help. Guess being on of the firsts to get these, especially with no instructions made it more of a trial and error than it should have been.

 

Installed my Anzo Step Lights today

Many thanks to @spoonman His "step by step" was spot on. I had already removed my steps several times, but the real help was with the pictures and tips on where trimming was necessary. Worked like a charm.

The Anzo parts were a bit warped and took some fiddling and force to get them in place and get all the bolts started.

The most difficult fitment was getting the assembled steps to close the gap next to the license area. Took some pressure and tightening the bolts in sequence. Even after I siliconed the lights in place and let it cure for a week, all the pushing and adjusting made one of the light covers a bit loose at the ends. Not a real quality product, but the final result was acceptable.

I didn't have time to wire them. I intend to only use the sequential turn signal function and will run wires from the front turn signals to power them.

While I had it apart I installed my Feniex 360 degree Cannons for auxiliary lighting functions. Part of a bigger plan. Just drilled a 1" hole and siliconed them in place from the top. These have amber and white LEDs and have 3 programmable functions and flash patterns/colors. Can be used for wide dispersion back up lights, emergency flashers, and 1 other function of my choice.

 

Do these fit on the chrome bumpers as well

 

I think they are only for Colorado. Chrome or painted are the same.

 

Bumpers are the same 15/16
canyon or Colorado

Very thin metal..

GB

 

Not really that thin. I backed into my son's Volvo and did about $500 worth of damage and didn't even scratch the rear bumper on the Canyon.

 

Stuck in traffic today and saw a Siverado with bumper step LEDs. No way to determine if the are same brand, but they were not very attractive and appeared to have some individual leds that failed.

 

appeared to have some individual leds that failed.

See that on a lot of tailgate bars too.