Alright, so you went ahead and bought one of the sweetest toys for either you or your child - a Power Wheels and you want your kid to be able to drive around at night without getting run over by those extremely lifted trucks that can't see anything closer than 40 feet away. The solution would be to add headlights and taillights to your power wheels. This is a pretty easy task and best of all, ParallelSeries.com (will) have the headlights and fog-lights available for an easy drop in. The only part that takes a bit of finesse are the taillights and that's only because they don't fit in directly so it's not as perfect looking.
To take off the headlight lens, remove screw that's on the lens right when you open the hood. That will let you remove the whole cover and lens easily.
You will need to trim down the plastic T shaped tab on the back of the lens with a dremel and then drill out a hole big enough to fit the connector end of the LED lights through. Don't make a hole too big though because you need material to hold the light in place. You just want to drill big enough to have the socket part of the light go through and the center part of the lens removed.
Line up the 2" diameter LED light (soon will be available for purchase on http://www.parallelseries.com) and glue it on from the back using either hot glue or some other plastic safe adhesive. Be sure angle the lens correctly to avoid it shining in weird directions.
Remove the fake fog light lens and cover by looking behind the bumper and pushing in the tabs and pushing them out. Once you have that done, the new LED foglights (available soon on http://www.parallelseries.com) will fit right in.
You will need to dremel down the little tabs to make it smooth so that the cover can fit snug with the LED light. It might also help to dremel some of the bumper holes down as well if it is hard to push the light in. The whole thing should fit very tight and hold itself in place once the cover is in the holes with the tabs.
Now for the taillights. There is really no easy way to get to it, so the easiest way is to take off the rear bed and just get right to it. Drill a hole through the black plastic at what ever place you want to mount the LED. It will be tight but it can be done. You can also remove the black plastic piece but I avoided doing that. Once you have the hole drilled out, put the LED in there. I used a red LED because the red LED has more light in the red spectrum than the white and since it will only show red, it would shine brighter than if you were to use a white LED. Here is what it looks like installed:
Now you will need to wire it all in. I drilled a small hole where the power wires come in for the front lights/fogs with a small hole in the rear and ran the wires under the seat and shifter cover plastics. Make sure that you connect and test the lights because the LED will only light up if you have the polarities correct. If you have the polarities backwards, they will not light up. So be sure to test each one before finishing everything up or soldering everything in place.
In the end, this is what the vehicle ends up looking like in the dark:
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