jamesm03

Is there a good budget led light bar out there? I am looking for a 52" light bar and I dont quite have the funds for expensive ones. I did some reading and see a bunch on amazon, but those look cheap. Yes, that sounds redundant, but thought Id check.

Thanks

Vycor

You answered your own question... amazon bars... cheap cheap cheap, but crap crap crap. ZROADZ makes a decent bar smack in the middle between low end and high end. They even have some F150 kits

elricfate

What's your usage rate? Are you going to use them as aux lighting on back roads a couple hours a week or are you using them all the time?

I ask because cheap amazon lightbars are fine for the first, but almost always not the second. And the only reason that is is because the heatsinks are either ****ty or non-existent, OR, the finned body acting as a heatsink is fine but the connection between the parts that get hot and the body is crap.

Those cheap lightbars can be good. I run them all the time on my F150. You just have to put work into them to get them there. You have to take the entire thing apart, reseat all the parts, loc-tite screws in for the mainboard, make sure all the parts are appropriately heatsinked, put it all back together, seal everything with RTV, including the glass even if it already has a crushed gasket.

Vycor

Or spend a little more and buy a quality bar and never have to take anything apart or go through that hassle...

elricfate

You say that but I've seen Rigid bars that get condensation inside because their QC is crap. And those are what everyone touts as "quality".

It is what it is. Even expensive crap is still crap. Just because it costs more doesn't make it immediately and inherently better. Just fix whatever you have and move on.

Cheap is cheap, but inexpensive is not cheap. Cheap crap will break like expensive crap. Inexpensive can still hold quality.