Vehicle guide · Trucks
Professional LED lighting for Mercedes-Benz trucks.
Mercedes-Benz's heavy-truck line — Actros, Arocs, Antos and the Atego light-duty platform — shares a single Multi-Media Cockpit architecture on every model after 2019. Aftermarket lighting fits into a tightly-integrated electrical system: the MirrorCam pillar, the integrated LED headlamps with adaptive beam, and the truck's extensive driver-assist monitoring all influence what you can add and where.
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The range — Actros, Arocs, Antos, Atego
The **Actros** is the long-haul flagship. GigaSpace and BigSpace cabs, 4×2 and 6×2 tractor configurations. The factory roof spoiler has pre-threaded mounting points for dual DRLs and two amber marker lamps, making it the cleanest Actros retrofit surface.
The **Arocs** is the construction heavy-duty range — 6×4, 6×6, 8×4 chassis, aimed at tippers, mixers and heavy transport. Sits taller off the ground; expect stronger vibration load, which is why we steer Arocs customers toward our IP69K SKUs by default.
The **Antos** filled the distribution-tractor niche and is being phased out in favour of Actros regional variants. Electrical architecture is nearly identical to the Actros.
The **Atego** is the 6.5–16 t light-duty delivery workhorse. Simpler electrical system, single battery bank, 24V auxiliary loom with four spare outputs under the passenger seat.
MirrorCam and the high-voltage pitfall
Mercedes-Benz replaced traditional side mirrors with MirrorCam on Actros models from 2019 onward. The MirrorCam pillar carries camera feeds, heating, and LED approach lamps on a 12V sub-bus off the main 24V system.
The sub-bus is not a place to tap auxiliary loads. It's current-limited, fault-monitored, and will throw a dashboard warning if a non-factory device pulls load from it. Install an amber beacon on the pillar using the main 24V chassis loom, not the MirrorCam feed — even if the pillar is the physically easier tap.
If it's a 12V tap on an otherwise 24V truck, assume it's owned by a driver-assist subsystem and leave it alone.
Factory mounting and body-colour matching
Mercedes-Benz fleets take cab aesthetics seriously. Many Actros units leave the bodybuilder with colour-matched light-bar housings recessed into the sun-visor band. The underlying lamp is still ECE-approved; the housing is decorative.
For retrofits, the two clean options are: (1) a body-coloured slim bar behind the sun-visor spar, using the factory wiring duct for the feed; or (2) a DIN-pole beacon bolted to the existing roof-rail anchor, with the pole painted to match. Either option beats a clamp-on mount visually and usually costs less in installation time.
Cold-chain and sealed-body considerations
A significant share of Actros and Atego vehicles haul temperature-controlled freight. Fridge trailers carry extra marker lamps, door-open sensors and auxiliary lamps inside the box — all running on the tractor's 24V auxiliary circuit via the trailer connector.
On these builds, two details matter: IP69K sealing (because the lamps get jet-washed daily), and the shielding rating of the tractor-trailer cable. A leaky EMC shield on the connector can cause the tractor's lane-keeping system to flag false positives on startup. Always use OEM or OE-equivalent replacement connectors.
