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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 09:30 PM
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For real. Lol.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:11 PM
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If your gonna do it, spend your $400 on Rigid Industries spot and flood dually's.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:15 PM
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probably not adding more lights on on my truck cause I'll probably flip it to help pay for the 2017 raptor. Don't wanna sink more money in that I won't get out of it.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by dopewaffle
If your gonna do it, spend your $400 on Rigid Industries spot and flood dually's.
Or a real set of projectors with quality HID's so you don't need rigids. Just headlights and fog lights lol HID headlight question-image-1425219506.jpg

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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:46 PM
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I'm not sure I understand, why are these lights so bad?
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:48 PM
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I'm not sure I understand, why are these lights so bad?
They are not well built. They leak like crazy and the LED's will burn out very rapidly due to water exposure. Not to mention they just look ricey.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 10:57 PM
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They also produce a horrible light scatter which blinds oncoming traffic and does not give you very good beam distance at all.
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Old Jan 21, 2015 | 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by BrowningSCrew
Or a real set of projectors with quality HID's so you don't need rigids. Just headlights and fog lights lol
You got some good lights there. Would still rather run stock and have a switch for the Rigids than alter the headlights on my truck. I do like yours though.
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Old Jan 21, 2015 | 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by dopewaffle
You got some good lights there. Would still rather run stock and have a switch for the Rigids than alter the headlights on my truck. I do like yours though.
Why would you not want a constant supply of safe bright light? Then the rigids would be an added supplement that really wouldn't be necessary. You don't realize how truly sad the stock lights are until you get behind a set of retrofits.
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Old Jan 21, 2015 | 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by BrowningSCrew
Why would you not want a constant supply of safe bright light? Then the rigids would be an added supplement that really wouldn't be necessary. You don't realize how truly sad the stock lights are until you get behind a set of retrofits.
I have a constant supply of light, whether it be safe or not is up to me. Just like its up to you to not ride around with light bars and high beams on. I always turn them off in the city or on 2 lane roads with a lot of traffic. I live in a country town so I could drive 15 miles and see maybe 5-6 cars.

Its all about preference dude.
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