Lighting or How many can I fit?

When it comes to off-road lighting, you can never really have too much, or can you? If you are the first Jeep blazing the trail for all the others, then Holiday like illumination can be a good thing. On the other hand, if you are following the lead Jeep who is lighting up the sky then you might be running with nothing more than your daytime running lights. I have been in both situations and when you are following, blinding the driver in front of you is just bad form.

As I have stated in previous posts, I am a fan of retro looking lights and for me, nothing is as retro as the KC HiLites brand. They are the quintessential, lights when I think back to my youth and my old CJ7. They are the lights you saw in every magazine and on every Jeep and Dune Buggy back in the day. I am of course referring to the KC Daylighters. While I am not a fan of the original chrome lights, I love them in black. I feel that KC as a company has stayed true to the original design while modernizing all the working components. You get a really nice retro looking light that is a really high output LED with a focused reflector. Well Done!

Now there are many other light manufacturers out there with awesome products so this is not to say that only KC makes a great light. You have other venerable names like PIAA, Hella, and ARB's Infinity lights, along with more recent brands like Rigid and Rigged Ridge. All have some pretty interesting things to offer the Jeep enthusiast.

There are also many choices in shapes and styles to choose from and in every color you can imagine. He is what I am thinking right now, I am pulling my front two KC HiLites off my JK and saving them for the JL. I am not really sure if they will go on the new bumper or the A pillar. I also plan to install rock lights for off road viability at night but mostly because I really like the way they look when we are all parked somewhere grabbing a beer. I want the color changing LED for the rock lights and am currently thinking about these: KC C-series RGB Rock Lights but these are almost double the price of the other ones available.

I also plan to add additional back-up LED lights but they will be dependent on the new rear bumper so I will see where that direction goes. Feel free to post some suggestions if you have some favorite lights in the comments section and I will check them out!

Oh and I want to wish my sister a very happy birthday! Love you!