Why do people put square lights on JTs (or any wrangler minus the YJ)?

[NC_Overland]

I’ll preface this by saying, your Jeep, you do you, but I just don’t get it. Is it price? Availability? Are there more small square lights added than round? Totally a personal preference and I’m not hating. I just have never thought it looks right. They have round headlights and fog lights and there isn’t one square line on them minus their brick like shape.

Just curious, don’t take it too seriously if you have added square lights. It’s just a thought that’s always on my mind when I see Gladiators that I like with square lights added.

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[DocMike]

I was not a fan of the square light wrangler. But I have seen square lights on a vw bug too. Not my style.

 

[jac04]

I'm with you, I much prefer round lights in the front and square out back. It just looks 'right'.

With that said, I think you see more square auxiliary lights now because most people are going with LED lights, and it is much more efficient/compact to arrange multiple LEDs in a strip or multiple rows. So, LED light manufacturers seem to make a lot of light bars and square/rectangular lights.

 

[Tuggernuts]

Like aux lights? Haven’t thought much of it but I do prefer round like KC or Baja Designs.

 

[Dqban]

i want to see a square light Porsche 911 now.....Like maybe from superman's bizzaro world.

 

[FshnRdnJpnAB]

I definitely prefer the aesthetics of round auxiliary lights. I don’t have any supplemental lights on the Gladiator, but if I did they would be round.

 

[NC_Overland]

Like aux lights? Haven’t thought much of it but I do prefer round like KC or Baja Designs.

Yeah, auxiliary lights.

 

[NC_Overland]

I'm with you, I much prefer round lights in the front and square out back. It just looks 'right'.

With that said, I think you see more square auxiliary lights now because most people are going with LED lights, and it is much more efficient/compact to arrange multiple LEDs in a strip or multiple rows. So, LED light manufacturers seem to make a lot of light bars and square/rectangular lights.

I’m not really talking about light bars, more cube lights. I never thought about square LED lights being cheaper to manufacture.

 

[NC_Overland]

Why was this moved to lighting? There’s not much technical about it.

 

[HydroWilllys]

I like old school and round as well. Can’t stand all the new LED lighting. Yes, they are more efficient and bright etc, but nothing beats an old school KC daylighter that makes your alternator sing when you flip the switch. You’ll never catch me with a cube light or light bar.

 

[AmosMoses01]

To answer your question, I got cubes b/c of price and availability, but eventually guess I'll end up back with round - ha! Had a set of rounds on backorder for a long time and gave up and cancelled, went with the Harbor Freight cubes. They work very well for the money. Once budget upens up, will probably go get some LED KC Slimlites for the front and move the HF cubes to the rear.

 

[MMMII]

I applaud your curiosity @NC_Overland. I also agree with your original post where you said “your Jeep, you do you” .

For me, it all started when I first got my JT and wanted to break up a solid red truck with some black accents. One being a light mount for the cowl. I found that with relative ease.

Didn’t make much sense (to me anyway) to add the mount and not (my first introduction to the Jeep accessory rabbit hole):

A: add lights to the mount​

B: give my factory Aux switches a reason to exist​

Not wanting to invest too much in a lighting project before other more impactful upgrades, I found some square cowl lights on the cheep from eBay.

I recently went down the path of changing out the plastic front bumper…. Along with that (deeper down the hole I fall), decided I wanted to add a 14” light bar on the new bumper which will (I believe) tie together the boxiness(?) of the light bar, cowl lights (that I have since upgraded but are still square) and windshield from the front of the truck.

My $0.02.

 

[Tuggernuts]

I have to say that I hate light bars. I will clarify that I hate the looks of them on the vehicle. However, I put one on my TJ just for hunting purposes and man it turns night into day.

 

[NachoRuby]

Upon first reading the title, I thought this is what was being discussed. The Quadratec YJL
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/01/26...adlights-tribute-quadratec-yjl/#slide-2291350

 

[MCATDT]

I’ll preface this by saying, your Jeep, you do you, but I just don’t get it. Is it price? Availability? Are there more small square lights added than round? Totally a personal preference and I’m not hating. I just have never thought it looks right. They have round headlights and fog lights and there isn’t one square line on them minus their brick like shape.

Just curious, don’t take it too seriously if you have added square lights. It’s just a thought that’s always on my mind when I see Gladiators that I like with square lights added.

Totally Agree. No way I was putting square lights on the front of my JT. Round KC's...old school and bad ass!!

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