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Where to Get Good Off Road Lights?


I really like the Hella 500 series lights I have on all three of my trucks. They are relatively cheap at about $60 a set. I always get the driving beam, but they also make a foglight too.

They are about 3 times brighter than the stock lights on my SD. They make the B2 lights look like they are not even on.
 
http://www.hella.com/produktion/Hel...ts/Performance_Lighting/HydroLux/HydroLux.jsp

That is "the best":headbang:

I had some Hella 500's, they're okay, but the lamps really needed a filter to keep dust out, my reflectors after a year or two got a smokey haze on them.

BTW I think the OEM stone guards suck, my dad borrowed my truck and accidently turned on the aux lamps with those vynil covers on it, by the time he got home those covers looked like somthing from rubber soul.
 
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How much will those puppies set a person back? I did not see prices. Did a search on Ebay for them too.
 
Wow, I guess the phrase "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" really does apply here.
 
I have Pro Comps on TRS-2. 4 on top and 2 in the front. I can throw a lot of light with them. It's amazing how much they light up the area. The middle 2 on top point straight and the top outside 2 go slightly out to the edge so I have a nice wide area.

I will probably replace them with KC's in the future. The KC's have a 23 year warranty. My Pro Comps faded and began rusting the first year I had them.

There are some expensive off-road lights out there including KC, ProComp and Hella. I can't see paying so much money for lights you will probably only use once in a while.

Look how many KC lights have been racing across the desert over the years.
 
I checked into KC lights when I was trying to decide what to buy. They seem high priced too. I bought the Hellas on a whim since they had all the needed parts and I did not have to buy each light seperate.

I did not look into ProComp lights, Jim do you offer those for sale in your store?
 
I can get:

ProComp
Hella
KC
VisionX
PIAA

You know, you can get KC's as a complete kit:

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Yes, I sell ProComps. Lately people have been buying the quartz lights:

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We Love to have a brand. Get some generics from Whitney ect. 130 watt. Halo's for 19 bucks each. Make dang sure you run them through say Bosh SP relays. We run our lights up here for a reason. On the trail its diff. Good luck bro.
 
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We Love to have a brand. Get some generics from Whitney ect. 130 watt. Halo's for 19 bucks each. Make dang sure you run them through say Bosh SP relays. We run our lights up here for a reason. On the trail its diff. Good luck bro.

But you generally do get what you pay for as you go up in price, starting with weatherproofing and body integrity. I agree some of it is the "brand" ya know, anything brand name is higher priced.

You need to consider, price, optics, performance and durablity.

Since you want "off road" lights, optics won't be so important, unlike a tight beam pattern required for street use. So you need to compromise between price(which seems like a high priority) and durablity.

and that might be a tough call, I've never had good results with cheap off road lights from the discount dealers(like autozone, etc.) You can even tell by looking at the reflectors, the pitiful dull reflector surface.

Buying Junk would not be cheap! I would go for the KC's, because they've been "doing this" sort of thing for a long time and you can find somone with old KC's and see how they held up, heck you might try some used KC's.:D
 
i have a pair of hella 500 clear driving lights w/ 110 watt bulbs (they come with 55's).. they are insane...

i also have amber hella 500 fogs.. both came as a kit with relays, switches, wiring harnesses... i got one kit online for $70 shipped, and another kit local for like $80 with tax (the fogs, i got them right before a big snowstorm, they are also nuts.. they cut right through the snow (the driving lights are useless in slight fog/rain snow.. but the fogs dominate even in heavy fog.. i'd rather run with just the fogs in those situations... the low beams cause too much glare..

my vote is for a hella 500 kit :clapping:
 

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