LED Headlights

tonywjk

tonywjk

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I posted a note about one of my truck-lite headlights not working. Took every apart and all pieces are dry. Reconnected everything and its dead. Now the million dollar question, do i drop $$ on another set of truck lites or is there any other company out there that makes a good/better/best LED headlight other than Truck Lite??

Would appreciate hearing what is on your Jeep????
 
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First thing to do is verify that the bulb is actually bad.
Switch sides. Swap just the bulb, not the anti flicker harness. ( you may have already done this and I may have missed it)
The connection between the anti flicker harness and the Jeeps factory wiring can be a problem.
I was having all sorts of problems and it was the connection where the factory bulb would have plugged in.
Dealership wanted a small fortune to get a new harness. I just said screw it and cut it out then hard wired it in. No further problems.
FWIW I am running KCs, like daylight.
 
I like the Vision -X but one side has recently begun to flicker.

I swapped the pigtail ballast and sure enough now the other side is flickering.
 
My Speakers stopped working. I zip tied the connection and they worked again for a while but eventually died again. Finally, I cut the factory connectors from the harness and replaced them with Putcos. No problems since. I think the wire in the harness fractured by the factory connector.


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tonywjk said:
Ok...

I posted a note about one of my truck-lite headlights not working. Took every apart and all pieces are dry. Reconnected everything and its dead. Now the million dollar question, do i drop $$ on another set of truck lites or is there any other company out there that makes a good/better/best LED headlight other than Truck Lite??

Would appreciate hearing what is on your Jeep????
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Can you get to the circuit board with a multi meter and 10x magnifier? My first guess would be a broken solder connection with a component. If, as others suggested, Truck-Lites does not have an answer/replacement and they are junk now anyway, can't hurt, just try to reflow some cracked joints. The LED's are pretty much forever, it's the circuitry that fails.
I have had my JW Speakers a year and they have been great, even through a pretty tough New England winter, as in a lot of road salt/debris, snow, slush, etc.
The only trouble I had was a wet slushy snow storm, the snow built up on the lens. They still threw enough light to work though, just very diffused
 
I really like these. These have a equal or maybe better pattern than the Ethers. I have ran about 12 different types of the china brands including a set of trucklites ,KC ,and the Quads.

I'm not bashing trucklite, KC, or quadratecs they make a nice product as does JW Speaker. I'm speaking from hands on experience with sunpie, Lantsun ,Loyo, Ether, wukmu, oppo and a couple other companies I have delt with. Keep in mind quadratecs,inspired engineering and raxiom all are made in China as well just sold by a good company in America. Well the raxiom and Quads https://10carbest.com/best-jeep-wrangler-led-headlights are I have never delt with inspired engineering hands on so I'm just assuming they are a good company since there a vendor on the forum.
Ether,Lantsun,and wukmu stand by there products better than any of the others. They only ask for a few details of the problem and send you a replacement. I'm not going to say their products are flawless but they all have a nice beam pattern and decent cutoff. Ether and Lantsun being the best of the two and the one I deal with more than the others. The worst is sunpies. Worst experience I have had with any of them. Terrible customer service and you really have to go out of your way to get a replacement light from them. I would avoid them at all cost. With that being said here are the ones I'm speaking about. I got these about 4 weeks ago and these are the first of any I have ran that have made me not want anything else. These have a sharp cutoff equal to ether and are the closes to my wife's BMW that I have saw.
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RonG said:
My Speakers stopped working. I zip tied the connection and they worked again for a while but eventually died again. Finally, I cut the factory connectors from the harness and replaced them with Putcos. No problems since. I think the wire in the harness fractured by the factory connector.


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Mind sharing some more info, my passenger side one does this occasionally and it's annoying. I have it zip tied but every once in a while I have to jiggle it cause it stops working.
 
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I have had the Quadratecs for a while now and they have been flawless. Much better than OE. FWIW, quadratec says they are made in Taiwan, not China.
 
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