Flicken Awesome: Overhead Auxiliary Switch Caps. Why Your Next Gen Deserves Better.

Designed In House. Obviously. Pulling design cues from our own logo, sharp lines, inverted angles, deliberate use of depth, we slowly but surely worked through every detail. One of the calls that came out of early prototyping was the addition of tactile finger grip pads. Small detail. Big difference. The kind of thing you don’t notice until it’s there and then can’t imagine being without. Each icon was scaled individually to sit correctly on the allocated face, legible at a glance without needing to squint and the end result, in our completely unbiased opinion, is what these things should have looked like coming off the production line. Feel free to take notes Ford “wink”.The Emoji range. Yes, really. Look, we knew this one would divide the room. And honestly? We were fine with that. The emoji range wasn’t a late addition or a marketing stunt. It came from the same place as our Toyota switch range, a genuine belief that not every product needs to take itself this seriously. There is a very real market of Next Gen owners who want the functional icon range. The light bar icon. The compressor icon. The fridge. We have those too. But there’s also a group of people who will absolutely use our Eggplant Emoji to toggle their canopy lighting and frankly, we are here for it.And look, if the devil emoji is what you’ve assigned to the RGB rock lights that come on after the second whiskey around a campfire, who are we to argue? That’s the whole point. Personalisation. Character. A build that actually reflects the person driving it, right down to the switch panel. Our emoji range is unapologetically cheeky. That was 100% intentional. We believe life’s too short for a boring switch panel especially one you need to look at every day. The icons have been carefully designed to emit light cleanly through the backlit system, which brings us to the next part.How the backlighting actually works. The factory overhead switch unit operates a two-stage backlit system, and understanding it matters if you want to get the most out of our switch caps. In its passive state, ignition on, no switches active, each cap is illuminated by a low-level pale blue backlight. Subtle. Always on. Enough to locate your switches in the dark without torchlight. When you toggle a switch to active, the backlight shifts from passive blue to a vibrant orange, telling you instantly that the accessory is live. Two colours. Two states. Simple and effective. Smart move Ford.Our caps slot directly into the factory overhead unit, no wiring, no modifications, no electrician required*, maybe (we always recommend using a professional). The powered unit that houses the switches controls all the lighting and electrics. You’re simply replacing the cap face. The backlight passes through the icon on the cap, which is why we spent a significant part of the prototyping process getting the icon depth and light-emitting properties right. Too much diffusion and the icon blurs. Too little and it goes dark. We ran through more iterations on this than we’d like to admit before landing on what we were happy with. The installation guide and video makes the whole process clear, most people are done in minutes.