What are those?

[starrskream]

Saw these taillights today, wondering if anyone can ID them.
I know it’s a wrangler, lots of parts cross over, or maybe that company makes them for the JT.
they have progressive led’s for brake and turns.

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[ATL_Rubi]

Saw these taillights today, wondering if anyone can ID them.
I know it’s a wrangler, lots of parts cross over, or maybe that company makes them for the JT.
they have progressive led’s for brake and turns.

More than likely an Alibaba.com special

 

[chasebank]

Google Lens picked up a few different options. One on Walmart branded "CPW": https://www.walmart.com/ip/CPW-LED-...r-Assemblies-Left-Driver-Right-Pas/1776165117

And another on Amazon that's more or less no brand - looking potentially like some type of dropship. Tho the Jeep in the product photo does have a CJ logo: https://www.amazon.com/stores/AUTOFREE/TAILLIGHTSASSEMBLY/page/9961B7A7-D747-453A-AC1D-88BF2FB5812B

Here's a thread referencing the CJ ones: https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...uential-led-tail-lights-by-cj-off-road.54463/

 

[sharpsicle]

Looks like a Chinesium special to me.

 

[starrskream]

ugh, thanks for the help! SUcks they are made from chinesium and amazonian steel. lol

 

[Lunentucker]

Chinese made electrical and electronics?
NO THANKS!!
(posted from Google Pixel 7)

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Chinese made electrical and electronics?
NO THANKS!!
(posted from Google Pixel 7)

PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN NOW!
Turn off your TV!
Stop decorating for any holiday!

Go to your cabin and light the Coleman gas lanterns!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

ugh, thanks for the help! SUcks they are made from chinesium and amazonian steel. lol

LOL - you can bet most of the electronic components in anything you own come from China or maybe a few from Korea but even they now contract out to the Chinese.

Anyway, I think those lights look pretty nice.

 

[starrskream]

PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN NOW!
Turn off your TV!
Stop decorating for any holiday!

Go to your cabin and light the Coleman gas lanterns!

hahaha my only problem with Chinese stuff, like these lights is they tend not to be reliable. I’ve run into a lot of car stuff that fails after weeks and months.
I like these lights, the reviews on Amazon aren’t great.

 

[Lunentucker]

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...izational-and-leadership-moves-300840775.html

 

[Badunit]

It is shameful that we outsource so much manufacturing to China but my issue with "Chinese" products is not the origin of manufacture, it is the bazillion no-name Chinese companies selling low quality products which are inferior ripoffs of someone else's products made with inferior and/or thinner materials and cheap construction but look similar enough to the real (and more expensive) item to fool people into thinking they are getting something equivalent for a lesser price when, in reality they are getting total garbage. Many of them use the original manufacturer's name in their marketing and search terms to fool people into thinking it is the real deal and others go the full distance and sell their garbage as the real thing.

 

[sharpsicle]

LOL - you can bet most of the electronic components in anything you own come from China or maybe a few from Korea but even they now contract out to the Chinese.

Anyway, I think those lights look pretty nice.

My comment wasn't so much about the components. I know most stuff uses things imported from China. We are, after all, living in the age of globalization. For me, "chinesium" is the garbage products that are manufactured there for pennies on the dollar, often using some level of stolen designs, under company names that aren't legitimate, and then is imported to flood the market here on places like Amazon and eBay.

I have no issue with real manufacturers that use Chinese components, or even those that manufacture their products over there like Valenti, but what I do have an issue with is the crap like this that's sold under no-name bs names and exists only to undercut the real companies that actually care about their products.

 

[starrskream]

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...izational-and-leadership-moves-300840775.html

Chinese products made for g a likely have much higher standards of quality than those sold on Amazon.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My comment wasn't so much about the components. I know most stuff uses things imported from China. We are, after all, living in the age of globalization. For me, "chinesium" is the garbage products that are manufactured there for pennies on the dollar, often using some level of stolen designs, under company names that aren't legitimate, and then is imported to flood the market here on places like Amazon and eBay.

I have no issue with real manufacturers that use Chinese components, or even those that manufacture their products over there like Valenti, but what I do have an issue with is the crap like this that's sold under no-name bs names and exists only to undercut the real companies that actually care about their products.

Yeah, that's a different topic - parts made to specs by US companies and sold through said companies.
The problem is the explosion of parts and items being sold on eBay and Amazon that are drop-shipped directly from China and sold by people in the US or China with Amazon accounts.

You can often tell on Amazon by the descriptions, and the delivery times. Their "descriptions" often translate like some joke, even grade school kids would pick apart the sentence structure and so on.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Chinese products made for g a likely have much higher standards of quality than those sold on Amazon.

Some are made for or by a decent company - but made in China.
Others are sold by people anywhere in the world with an Amazon account, and drop-shipped directly from China. Cheap stuff in cheap packaging.

I bought an item on Amazon that no one in the USA sells and the communications were totally funny with the seller. Every message back started with "Honey" and the messages were definitely translated boilerplate with some personal interaction now and then. Quality is cheap, but I don't care - it's for fun and only occasional use and if it lasts 5 years compared to 20, big deal. (If US companies would get on the ball and do what some of the Chinese are doing, it could help!)

In the case of those tail lights - do we really know the whole back-story?
Is it possible that no US-based company sells them - made in China or not, and some Chinese outfit saw a market?
Or perhaps someone does have them made, and someone in China stole the idea and makes and sells them on eBay or Amazon.

Sometimes we are our own worst enemy - unless we can triple our money, we won't do it - but someone else will, then we bitch.

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