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    Need new spotties

    After losing one on the weekend, I need to replace. Thinking of using something like this.
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    What are your thoughts.
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    Hi Jay,

    LEDs will certainly put out a lot of light but still don't project it as far down the road as halogen or HID.

    what sort of spotties do you have? I have a spare one after breaking the other and so I got a replacement set of Nitestalkers from super cheap. Cost me $120 for the set and do a fairly decent job.

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    My other question should of been, what do you want to light up? Long distance for highway driving or short dicta nice for night time 4WDing?
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    Something that's more distance for the highway, hence the spot not flood.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jay see View Post
    Something that's more distance for the highway, hence the spot not flood.
    Go hid or halogen then. Although I have a 240w light bar and two 185w led spotties and its more than enough light on the highway ay night. But I still dont get the distance of the hid's.
    Edit. That led bar you have pictured. I use the exact same one as a reverse light. You will be disappointed if you had those as driving lights.
    Last edited by mudski; 20th January 2015 at 10:36 AM.

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    How much in involved with the hid, is it just replacing the loom..
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    Quote Originally Posted by jay see View Post
    How much in involved with the hid, is it just replacing the loom..
    I had IPF800'S. The ballasts were small enough to fit in the light so all I had was two wires coming out the light and they fit directly into the old loom.
    If you decided to convert to hid. Dont but the cheap kits. The globe takes longer to warm up, the ballasts are much noisier and the light output is garbage. I spent $150 on a 70w 4300k kit when I converted mine. The result was very good.

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    Jay cee do you have the factory bar as in you dont have much room to fit Driving lights.
    I have new 9" x 55 watt 6000K Hid but may not be what youre after, they have a clear blue ring that lights up with the parkers if desired
    $150 a pair if you like them.
    I originally used two spread they were that good but changed to two spot cause I can lol
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