Spotlights

Ryan,

I am amazed that you would still use the term BUSH BASHING after all these years of publicity by the 4wd fraternity to stamp out such ideas. You must be a young fella who just has not learnt anything.

As far as your $40 spotties go.......buy a good torch as it will be better value for money.

Cheers,

WillieNever a dull moment

You get what you pay for . . . .

Pay $40 . . . expect the same sort of performance.

The strength of the cheaper mounts is a problem, but for $40, what do you have to lose... if they work, bargain, if they fall apart backing out the driveway, then you only lost $40

I agree, bush bashing is probably not an appropriate term to use in a public forum (or anywhere for that matter). It certainly doesn't describe what we do - but conjures up images of hoons in 4Wdrives ripping through bush completely off the track destroying all flora and fauna in it's path.....

As far as the lights go - you will probalbly find (I'm being generalistic about cheap lights here as I'm not familiar with the ones you describe) that as Truckster said, the mounts will be inferior - at best the lights will shake about heaps on dirt roads, at worst the lights will fall off. You may be able to stabilise them and strengthen them with a little modification though. A friend of mine recently bought some cheap lights, and found the lights shook all over the place. After about 1/2 hr with his welder and a bit of fiddling they are now rock solid :-)

Also, whilst they may use 100W globes for example, they generally will only be of average quality - you may be able to replace them with a good globe, but then you have the poor reflector design to contend with as well as poor quality lens clarity and materials.

Having said that - are they worth chucking on for $40 bucks to try out? IMHO yes they would be.

There certainly are much better (and more expensive) lights out there - but if you want a cheap and temporary measure give them a try!

Go to the wreckers with $40 and source some headlights that you can run a decent set of globes in instead of the sealed beams.

Just for the record , i dont go out to destroy anything. Im sorry if i used the wrong term! And thanks for your input, i might look at upgrading my headlights. Cheers

Go to Supercheap, $45 (each) will get you 6" sealed beams, mounts are OK, finish is reasonable.

Great spot lights (for the $$$) and no big deal if you break them or they get pinched.

Twice as good as the Hella's they replaced