{"id":8154,"date":"2021-07-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4wdsupacentre.com.au\/news\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:35:50","slug":"why-its-time-to-upgrade-to-a-set-of-new-led-driving-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/why-its-time-to-upgrade-to-a-set-of-new-led-driving-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It’s Time To Upgrade To A Set of New LED Driving Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Driving lights<\/a><\/strong> technology has come a seriously long way in the past decade. For those of us who\u2019ve been around the traps for a few years, it\u2019s not hard to remember the old style of driving lights we put up with for decades \u2013 halogen lights that sucked so much battery power that you could see your voltmeter drop when you hit the high beam stalk, light output that honestly wasn\u2019t that much better than your regular high beam globes, and the price \u2013 that was probably the worst part! You\u2019d pay $500 for something anywhere near close to a \u2018decent\u2019 set of 4×4 driving lights<\/a><\/strong> and even then they had flimsy mounts, brittle glass lenses that cracked at the first flick of a stone from a car in front of you, and were\u2026 well, pretty underwhelming to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here at Adventure Kings we\u2019ve been working hard to improve LED driving lights<\/a><\/strong> for a decade now. We\u2019ve focused on three things \u2013 making 4×4 spotlights<\/a><\/strong> brighter, making them tougher and of course making them more affordable. We\u2019re proud of the fact that our newest incarnation of LED spotties<\/a><\/strong> that we call Lethal are simply astonishing all round. They\u2019re insanely bright \u2013 the 9\u201d LED spotlights<\/a><\/strong> throw light out to 1.6km away from the car, feature our toughest and most indestructible housing and mounts ever, and they are RIDICULOUSLY affordable too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re still running an old set of 4WD spot lights<\/a><\/strong> then now\u2019s the time to do yourself a favour and upgrade to a new set of Kings LED spotlights<\/a><\/strong>. The difference is literally night and day \u2013 chalk and cheese. I\u2019m running a set of 8.5\u201d laser spotlights<\/a><\/strong> on the front of my ute, and apart from the fact they look awesome \u2013 ultra modern and overall very flash \u2013 the biggest benefit is the simply astonishing amount of light that they throw down the road when you pull the high beam stalk. There\u2019s nothing like nosing your rig out of a side road onto a long, deserted and pitch black country road or highway, getting up to cruising speed, hitting the cruise control and then flooding the road ahead of you with your LED driving lights<\/a><\/strong>. It\u2019s the best feeling, being able to see what\u2019s ahead of you, knowing where the turns and the curves in the road are well ahead of time instead of being surprised by them at the last minute, and most importantly being able to spot roos and other wildlife on the side or in the middle of the road well before you need to lock the brakes up in an emergency stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I spend time in our Adventure Kings stores talking to 4WDers, campers and truckies, I often get asked for recommendations as to what modification people should make next. For anyone who loves putting kays on their odometer, or who drives for a living or simply lives out of town, the answer is always the same \u2013 a set of led driving lights<\/a><\/strong>. Nothing upgrades your vehicle like 4×4 spotties<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our latest incarnation \u2013 the Lethal LED driving lights<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 are the culmination of that 10 years of research and development. We\u2019ve beaten these lights to hell and back to ensure that they\u2019re strong. I\u2019ve done the ultimate torture test, which we filmed and posted on our Youtube channel (search for Lethal Driving Light<\/a><\/strong> Torture Test if you\u2019re keen to see it). In that test I ran a set of 9\u201d <\/strong><\/a>Lethal LED Driving Lights<\/a> <\/strong>underwater for an hour to test their waterproof ability, threw one off a 100 foot cliff, towed the other behind a 4WD on a rocky dirty farm track for kilometres and then finally hit the lights with 90\u00b0C 1100psi hot water from a diesel hot water pressure washer. Yep, they certainly looked a bit worse for wear after all that \u2013 especially the cliff dive and the tow test! \u2013 but most importantly they turned on when I hooked them up to power, and those exact lights are still working to this very day. In my books that\u2019s as tough a test as you\u2019d ever see or expect a set of 4WD spotlights<\/a><\/strong> to go through, and to my mind that\u2019s definitive proof that these incredible LED spotties<\/a><\/strong> will stand up to just about anything you can throw at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A word of advice though. If you\u2019re upgrading your old tired driving lights to a new set, do yourself a favour and shout yourself one of the awesome Kings Plug n Play Smart Wiring Harnesses. These do two things, and are an excellent idea even if you already had power going to your old spotlights<\/a><\/strong>. The biggest thing they do is take the question mark out of your wiring \u2013 those questions of \u2018is it good enough\u2019, \u2018will it get enough power to my night LED driving lights<\/a><\/strong>\u2019, and \u2018will the wiring last the distance\u2019. These harnesses are built to work perfectly with these lights, and that\u2019s what they\u2019ll do \u2013 work and work and work. You\u2019ll never need to question whether your LED spotties<\/a><\/strong> are working properly, or why one of them is dropping out over rough roads. The second thing the harness does is makes your driving light<\/a><\/strong> installation so simple. No cutting, no soldering, no prodding around with a test light or a multimeter to figure out which wire goes where \u2013 it\u2019s all ultra simple when you use the Kings Plug n Play Smart Harness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do yourself a favour and put a set of the new Kings Lethal LED Driving Lights<\/strong> <\/a>on your must-get list. They\u2019ll transform your rig, and you\u2019ll find yourself looking forward to that next long night drive as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving lights technology has come a seriously long way in the past decade. For those of us who\u2019ve been around the traps for a few years, it\u2019s not hard to remember the old style of driving lights we put up with for decades \u2013 halogen lights that sucked so much battery power that you could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123456,"featured_media":8155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}