LED "Off road" lights

[Dsmith1992]

How did you mount them, i am looking at some rigids as well. if you can get a couple of pics that would help me out.

Originally Posted by FRSChris13

I installed a couple of rigid e-series lights behind my grill, I think it came out good.

They work well in the mountains at night!

[Shagaliscious]

You just gave me a great idea. Make LEDs to spell "FUCK OFF" in the grill of the car, and wire them up to a switch. If someone cuts me off, switch them on. Not sure if there is enough room though.

[FRSure]

Originally Posted by Shagaliscious

You just gave me a great idea. Make LEDs to spell "FUCK OFF" in the grill of the car, and wire them up to a switch. If someone cuts me off, switch them on. Not sure if there is enough room though.

[Reaper]

Ridgid industries is king. Use them on everything I own that has wheels...well except the frs. Turbo kit cleaned out my wallet. Soon thought!

[speedrye]

Rigid makes some good lights and I run two of their bars and some Duallys as well, but honestly Baja Designs makes a higher quality bar with better output and better color for the same money. Now that I've tried them out, I won't be going back to Rigid. Rigid is still the most popular choice with the most options and the most advertising.

[woode]

I ran a lot of lights on my Jeep for off roading, and I think LED bars are great. However, for this application they are not so great for a few reasons.

LEDs really shine (no pun intended) at closer ranges. Even in the offroad community people still use HID retrofits for long range. These cars aren't going to be doing 5-40mph on dirt roads. We are doing 50.. 60.. + on pavement and at those speeds you are outrunning the LED lighting.

This is a doubly whammy because not only are you outrunning the light they produce, but they produce so much of it that your eyes are being drawn to the foreground that they light up so well instead of far away, where you should be looking when you are driving at higher speeds (like 50+).

Sure, they look brighter, but for road applications they are essentially a waste of money.

Just my $.02

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Ridgid industries is king. Use them on everything I own that has wheels...well except the frs. Turbo kit cleaned out my wallet. Soon thought!

i really don't agree...

Originally Posted by speedrye

Rigid makes some good lights and I run two of their bars and some Duallys as well, but honestly Baja Designs makes a higher quality bar with better output and better color for the same money. Now that I've tried them out, I won't be going back to Rigid. Rigid is still the most popular choice with the most options and the most advertising.

bose audio does a lot of advertising as well, doesn't make their product any better.... imo bose and rigid are on the same level-- they both play on their clientele to be uneducated about the product they're purchasing, or just only interested in the name brand stamped on the box..

honestly, i consider rigid to be the ricer wings and fart cans of the offroad world... too many people buy because of the name, and don't really care about the quality of the product. i've been researching led light bars for quite a while and at the level that rigid is at, you can save a lot of money buying a no-name chinese bar and get the same performance/quality level..

the chinese bars use the same 6000k led's that rigid uses, and very similar enclosure and reflector designs, as well as thermal throttling that pretty much every brand has. the only major difference is that rigid claims to be assembled in the US and costs more.. the last major issue i heard about, rigid had consistent issues with water retention that was turning many bars into fishbowls... they seem to have fixed that issue, but it took a long time for them to finally admit that it was their fault and to start replacing bars..

problem is, if you do buy chinese instead of rigid, then you don't get to flaunt the name in front of all your offroad buddies, and it's not worth +5hp like the rigid's...

[speedrye]

Originally Posted by soundman98

problem is, if you do buy chinese instead of rigid, then you don't get to flaunt the name in front of all your offroad buddies, and it's not worth +5hp like the rigid's...

Everyone knows it's not the Rigids that give you the 5hp, it's the stickers they include with them. You don't get stickers with the Chinese bars, but you save enough to buy a lot more stickers and gain well over 100hp.

[FRSChris13]

Originally Posted by Dsmith1992

How did you mount them, i am looking at some rigids as well. if you can get a couple of pics that would help me out.

Welded some custom made brackets to the plate behind the front bumper and used the hardware it came with, took about 1 hour. I'll be taking my bumper off again soon for my intake, I'll post pics later this week.

[kidgogeta]

i know its not off road lights, but i think something like the ford raptors 3 leds in the grill would look halfway decent

[Dsmith1992]

I wonder if you could take the tacoma grill and use it cause it looks like the same size and shape

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[FR-S Neck]

Originally Posted by FRSChris13

Welded some custom made brackets to the plate behind the front bumper and used the hardware it came with, took about 1 hour. I'll be taking my bumper off again soon for my intake, I'll post pics later this week.

Hey, did you ever happen to get some pictures of the light install? I'm still really wanting to do a project similar to yours and wouldn't mind seeing what you did to accomplish it.