Overlanding Light Upgrade - Lightforce LED on Jeep Gladiator
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- I install a set of Lightforce Venom LED Driving lights on the front bumper of my Overland Jeep Gladiator
Support my work on Patreon for exclusive behind the scenes content, early access and more:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/ theroadchoseme
The Camera Gear I use:
-------------------------------------
amzn.to/2TcdBXo
Stay in touch:
--------------------------
❱ Instagram - / theroadchoseme
❱ Facebook - / theroadchoseme
Books I've published about my expeditions around the world:
--------------------------------------
❱ The Road Chose Me Volume 2: Three years and 54,000 miles around Africa
375 pages of misadventures, stories, characters, politics and more from driving all the way around Africa!
amzn.to/3pnVKu6
❱ 999 Days Around Africa: The Road Chose Me
75 page full-color photography book from each of the 35 countries I visited in Africa
amzn.to/2H93IUH
❱ The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina
265 pages of adventure, inspiration and antics from driving the length of the Pan-American highway
amzn.to/2vfCYvn
❱ Overland Travel Essentials: West Africa: Myths, Misconceptions and Misnomers
Everything you need to know to undertake your own Overland Expedition in West Africa
amzn.to/2veyQMt
❱ Work Less to Live Your Dreams: A practical guide to saving money and living your dreams
The tips, tricks, ideas and perspectives I've learned to save the money I need to live the life I want
amzn.to/2OD6UtA
#JeepGladiator #Lightforce #OverlandLights 
Хобби
Just got back from Bwindi in Uganda and I had the same ranger who you gave a ride in your video, great experience
Awesome, happy to hear he is still there!
Always like protective cover on my lights.
Some people point one up and other down for dips and crests off-road.
Glad to see you considered oncoming drivers, so many yahoos here in the us only care about making their sight line lite up like daytime.
It’s law in australia that driving lights are wired through high beam relay.
Many complain about jeep not being up to the overland challenge, but one thing you should appreciate is the aftermarket accessories are quite literally plug and play. There must be a two way street between the accessory supplier and the manufacturer Jeep.
Light force r the best
I have Lightforce Striker LED's on my Land Rover, and they are phenomenal, almost too bright. As I found out in Zambia, they're also capable of being submerged in water and mud for 18 hours without any water ingress. The same couldn't be said of the headlights!
P.S. I much prefer your normal style of video to the step-by-step for your winch install - that's what instruction manuals are for! I love hearing your thoughts on things and why you did something.
Kudos to Jeep for doing the smart thing with the integrated wiring harness for accessories👍. AND Lightforce for the cool "patch harness adapters"👍👍.
🤩 they are beautiful lighting products. Wish I could afford them 😒.
I’ve got the exact same venom lights and Warn hoop on my white JL Rubicon. Works a treat and fits like a glove.. Steve 🇦🇺
Don't forget the old adage of setting up camp by 4pm .
Another great vid Dan, love following your build .....Cheers ....Steve
Great video on the Light Force LED lights and wiring kit. I'll have to look at getting a trigger wire plug adapter for my JT. It is a PTA to have to switch off Aux lights for oncoming traffic. Effectively same reason I added Aux LED lights on mine but deer the plus side is able to see road trash and holes.
Really nice of the company to provide those piggyback plug sections. As for the factory Jeep pass through wiring from the aux switches to the engine bay, Raptors have had those since 2010.
I think another consideration is if you will be in caravans frequently. You may want the driving lights on without running high beams behind someone in the caravan. Or even run the driving lights without the headlights.
These driving lights are way brighter than the hi beams and push out much, much further... so if I was behind anyone and had them on, they would be hating me more than if I had my high beams on.
@@TheRoadChoseMe ha! I bet. They do look really nice and bright. Where you are going they will be a huge help!
Quick note, last I check Spot lights in Australia have to be wire by law to your hi beam switch, cant turn off and on there own, can’t be higher than bonnet and have to be an even number lol go figure. all the guys out bush with insane amount of spot lights on roll bar have to be physically disconnected until needed on private roads or of properties. In Qld they had a blitz on 4x4 early last year.
Not bad.
At this point you're going to get a lot of people saying KC lights a better, been around a long time, blah blah.
My opinion.... KC is overpriced. They're decent lights but not worth the inflated price.
Hey, Australians are some of the best overlanders in the world and their products are excellent. Hence why I put Australian made Ironman suspension in my Tacoma. And after a year of running it against Bilstein, Foxx, Terra flex and all the others..... Twice as good at half the price!
Blessings Dan 🙏😎🚜❤🥰
Yep awesome lights, you get what you pay for
I see dirt on those tires!🧐 Someone has been out having fun!👌
I'm trying really hard not to, because I'm REALLY REALLY enjoying working on a vehicle that isn't covered in mud (like my Africa Jeep).
I want to get all the work done before I get it covered!
I wired my auxiliary lights exactly like you did on my JK, but I had a problem using the PWM headlight signal to trigger my relay… the relay would trigger on/off so fast it sounded like an electric razor. I tried several anti-flicker fixes but nothing worked. In the end I swapped so my switch is the trigger and the signal from the high beam actually powers the lights. It ideal but it works.
I had the same on my JK, putting a big capacitor on the relay trigger wire fixed it (it smoothes out the LED flicker).
No such issues on my Gladiator.
Baja Design LP6 has the same IP69K rating plus the IK10 impact rating. Also, “Exceeds MIL-STD810G (Mil-Spec Testing)” for those that care.
Mate u should get the arb bondi bumper instead of mopar one believe me it’s not that strong I just replaced mine best for overlanding 👍🏼
When I do supplemental light on my Tacoma, I think I will just keep it low key and add fogs.
Hey mate. Great job. We still think you have too little light. Add more lights if I may suggest.
Another great video, thanks Dan. Just wondering, where did you end up mounting the relay ?
It's behind that passenger headlight I had out.
😎👍
Nice looking install :) where did you get your grille hoop bar from?
It's a warn low grille guard
Hey mate love the bud, thank you!
But what did you do with the switch from the wiring harness?
Is that somewhere permanently switch on or did you cut it off?
I cut it off, because I didn't want to use it to control the lights
doesn't getting used to the high intensity of the driving lights pose a safety risk when you return to low beam?
also, wouldn't amber covers try to mitigate that?
I run driving lights that are about 15-20% less powerful than these on paper. And have terrible stock headlights. Unless you have a lot of highly reflective stuff like big road signs or snow it isn't too bad. It wouldn't be as bad with decent stock headlights. They are way too bright to run when it snowing out or there is snow on the ground. Amber would help a bit with that, but it's best to just leave them off. Or use an amber fog light that has a more controlled beam.
Hi Dan,
I'm curious as to what you did with the switch that came with the harness. Did you keep it or bypass it? I have a harness that came with a switch, but wasn't too sure of how to bypass it, so I've kept it hooked up and tucked it away in the "ON" position in the engine bay.
Hi Alex, did you get a response on your question? I am facing the same dilemma atm, not sure what to do with the 'built-in' switch. Thanks.
Where I live the aftermarket spot lights are iligal and they shuldent be mounted if they are not factry fited. Cheers 🍻 O and whay dont you use all the fitures your lights have.
is that the Warn low grille guard that you have mounted on your front bumper?
yep
Don’t drive at night but do add lights.
Don't drive at night if you can help it, but if you have to, do it as safely as possible.
Also driving around Australia is obviously a little different from a safety perspective than driving around Africa or driving all of Latin America.
😬
Hi, a newbie here. Where can we find the “earth” in the Rubicons in AU? Tnx
You can go straight to the negative on the battery, or any bolt on the body (test it with a multimeter). You'll see a ton of wires connected together and then onto a bolt into the body under the bonnet - those are all earths.
Was the “red” positive terminal the one you connected to the aux?
Any issues with light flicker on those LEDs?
None at all, they're great
@@TheRoadChoseMe sweet. As you you probably know, jeep electrics system has a tendency to flicker on some lights
Right, my JK did it badly, but I think these newer Jeeps are designed from the ground-up to be LED.
@@TheRoadChoseMe yeah I’ve heard JL/JT still do it. It’s a problem not limited to LEDs though. Some cheap HIDs will have issues to. I think any decent LED lights should have anti flicker hardware inbuilt. Probably why the light force ones work well with it.
Here in the U.S., Many people put deer whistles on their from bumper. Would these work to scare off kangaroos?
People do use them, though I think the jury is out on whether they actually work.
@@TheRoadChoseMe They don't work Dan. I think they are very rare now, ie the owners don't know they're useless. By the way, you're risking being able to stop and being an Aussie I thought you would fit a bullbar. They also come from the sides where you can't see them till it's too late. It happened to me where a roo went straight into the front fender. They jump high too and have gone through windscreens.
@@Malc664 Yes that’s true ,l have 3x kangaroos kill at front my 4x4 but ARB bulbar save kpl.vehicle. Dan’s Jeep it’s not successfully protected.
Wow $700 lights. Seems a lot?
If kangaroos are behaviorally at all similar to deer, then measures to avoid hitting them with your vehicle are a partial solution -- you haven't addressed the likelihood that they will hit you! At high noon on a flat open stretch of road, I spotted the beast giving my car the evil eye more than 200m distant. Slowing to 5mph and moving into the opposite lane (no oncoming traffic for a mile), I thought "all good." The deer had another idea, charging into the headlight and flipping a** over teakettle over my head, completely vanishing from view by the time I got out to look around and inspect the damage . . .
I had a coworker park her car in her driveway after work while a whitetail deer was in her front yard. She pulled in slow as to not spook the deer. Shut her car off, deer apparently confused by the the sight of the side of the car. It bolted and ran right into the passenger door virtually destroying the door.
Will sounding the horn help scare it off? Probably not. You can't beat having a bull bar. I had a roo jump into the side of my car once, It dented the front fender. It hopped off okay, seemed unharmed.
Those connecting wires won't pose a risk of short circuit when you get some heavy rain or river crossing? Maybe you should use some silicone gel or something to seal it.
The probably came with factory heat shrink which I imagine was shown off camera.
Go to an auto parts store like NAPA and get yourself a rattle spray can of UV stabilized automotive clearcoat. I do my headlight lenses and they do not haze over or get stone chips or whatever. I drive a 16 year old Nissan X Trail and the headlamps are like new. Should work similar on your new driving lights as well as on your stock lamps.
Warranties are added to product price so if the company has 30% failure in 3 years they add 30% plus to the price and give a 3 year warranty. So not saying Lightforce is not good quality, just saying price and warranty doesn't equal quality. A 3 year warranty product might be more expensive coz you pay for more failures instead of better quality.
Lol