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What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS]

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No pictures, but sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on the way home, guy on a motorcycle behind me ran into me. Did nothing but knock the cover off the blind spot monitor on my driver's side tail light. Soon as I got home, pulled out the tail light, couple plastic bits broken, couple wires had to be shoved back into the internal connector, but everything goes back together securely and works.
 

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Let us know how good they are, please. I've been debating on those or the Kiwi Masters. The lights you have pictured are just LEDs in reflectors with that diffusion piece on the front, right?
These lights are not projector lamps like the Kiwis you mentioned. They are just LED chips relying on the reflector design.

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The low beam LED is behind the small black shield, circled in the picture.


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This shows the high beam LED, again circled in red.

The Halos are behind the diffuser and around the outer edge.

They have a nice sharp cutoff for the low beam.

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My biggest complaint is the dead space directly in front of the Jeep for about 10 feet. I'll need to run with the fog lights on if I want illumination directly in front of the vehicle. Otherwise I'm satisfied with these lights.

I got the BICYACO brand, and they come with the supplies needed to hook up the halos to the fusebox. And they include, "CAN buss adapters (resistors)," that you'll not need for the JT.
They also have vertical adjusters built in, whereas the Kiwis do not: they rely on some half-assed spring & screw setup on the housing mounts to allow adjustment.

I'll try these for a while, and see if I can get used to the deadband. Otherwise the light output is pretty good.

Kevin
 
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These lights are not projector lamps like the Kiwis you mentioned. They are just LED chips relying on the reflector design.

Jeep Gladiator What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS] Pattern New


The low beam LED is behind the small black shield, circled in the picture.


Jeep Gladiator What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS] Pattern New


This shows the high beam LED, again circled in red.

The Halos are behind the diffuser and around the outer edge.

They have a nice sharp cutoff for the low beam.

Jeep Gladiator What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS] Pattern New


My biggest complaint is the dead space directly in front of the Jeep for about 10 feet. I'll need to run with the fog lights on if I want illumination directly in front of the vehicle. Otherwise I'm satisfied with these lights.

I got the BICYACO brand, and they come with the supplies needed to hook up the halos to the fusebox. And they include, "CAN buss adapters (resistors)," that you'll not need for the JT.
They also have vertical adjusters built in, whereas the Kiwis do not: they rely on some half-assed spring & screw setup on the housing mounts to allow adjustment.

I'll try these for a while, and see if I can get used to the deadband. Otherwise the light output is pretty good.

Kevin
Thanks for the reply and writeup. Much appreciated.
 

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Finally got my Mojave 1st thing was installed JW Speaker J2 headlights and mounting buckets. Then did adjustments, very pleased with these. Also my start/stop elimination harness. That selects the button after start up. Bumper/winch on order.

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Further un-modding to prep for the trade in case the new one actually does ever get built before 2025......... I removed the Oracle bumper-mounted backup lights. I washed 'em up, checked the wiring over (it's like new, but then I strapped the heck out of the wiring) and am going to prep them for the new one by adding diodes and connectors so I can also turn them on with an aux switch in the new truck.

Next will be removal of the max tow springs, Daystar spacers and Fox shocks on the rear.
 

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Mirrors from my LJ keep folding (plus don’t like having to keep switching them between Jeeps). Made a quick set with some SS hardware from HD and some $9 mirrors on Amazon. Tested them at 80 mph and didn’t budge. Good $25 project.
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Got the Ebay Hoist-A-Top installed.
It took longer than expected, but It's a beautiful day and I took my time and made sure everything was nice and tidy.
The way Jeep engineered the hard top to wrap around a garage door opener is pretty genius!

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The stair riser worked perfectly!

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