G'day @
Cookie George.
First of all, this is probably a better thread for your post than ebay finds, that's more for things you've found that others might want to buy, what you're doing is asking a question, so this is the right place.
Unfortunately my advice is going to be the same as the others on this thread, I was tossing up between LED light bars the same as you and ended up going with one of @
Lights 37' Extreme Series.
Reasons being:
- One of my mates has a light bar similar to the one you're looking at and I helped him install it just before a trip to Arkaroola, which was a 5 day trip with maybe 3 hours of proper 4x4'ing and the rest of the time being mediocre dirt roads at best. His light bar didn't even last that trip with 2 of the screws coming out (even with loctite on them) and then they wouldn't go back in for some reason and then it stopped working all together.
- As with everything, you could buy a cheap light bar that will last until the end of time and never have a fault, but chances for that scenario are not good.
- The light output and general awesomeness of one of @
Lights is definitely up there. It's quite heavy (which I like), it's well designed, it's strong and it fits perfectly between the bottom of my ARB roof rack and my roof (can't speak for other brands).
- Yes they are definitely more expensive than anything you're likely to get on ebay (if they aren't I'd question whether ebay is ripping you off) but my honest advice if you don't have the cash is to save a bit here and there and wait until you do.
Once I had installed my lightbar I took my mate with the el cheapo bar for a drive down the track near our house to winch a fallen tree off the road and his exact words were 'This is incredible, it's like the middle of the day...I am never buying cheap lights again'.
Each to their own, but that's my 2 cents.
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