My review of the eBay special, generic, 20 inch LED light bar

[Droid]

Lol the American companies are just reselling these lights as their own. I know for a fact a few LED light distributors just buy chinese lights in bulk and rebrand them as their own. The only "Made in America" ones i know of are Rigid and VisionX. And for a bar I use once a month, I'm not spending $2k+.

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I have a chinese bar. It's not this company, but it was a Chinese manufacturer and it fit. It was tight, but no problems.

I believe that list should be Baja Designs, Rigid, and VisionX.

Cree themselves have some manufacturing plants in China...in addition to manufacturing plants in the US (North Carolina, I believe). I don't know what's made where.

I'm a bit torn on this issue. I'll probably not buy a Rigid/VisionX/Baja bar in the foreseeable future due to the price. I'm sure they're worth it, for someone who actually needs a light bar. For someone like me whose night offroading consists of a run or two a year over Saddleback mountain...well the stock non-HID brights work well.

It's not a function of the American item being more expensive than the Chinese one. It's a function of the Chinese one being effectively free.

Here's where the Chinese really F*** us over:

Moto X's 'Made in America' prestige could cost $5 per phone | The Verge

As in companies like Apple and Motorola were saving $5 per phone making them in China rather that the US. I believe this kind of behavior, i.e., proper beancounting, is what's going to be the end of us all if we don't change.

It's one thing to knowingly buy an vastly inferior product from overseas for a fraction of the price of a superior domestic product, if your needs only justify the inferior product. It's another thing to buy/sell a product whose manufacturing was shipped overseas in order to increase profits by 1%.

 

[jackrook]

Here is the 40inch M&R with no headlights




And here is the 20inch eBay special with no headlights




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[jackrook]

The eBay special bar is a spot/flood combo. What the pictures don't show is a lot of stuff outside the picture was illuminated. So for future reference, I would consider this particular light bar to be a "flood" light and my M&R to be a combo light Sent from my iPhone using Forum Runner

 

[jackrook]

Here's the box so you guys can compare.













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[NickPic83]

Looks exactly how the totrons come

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[Jordan@Apollo-Optics]

Sweet.,,, thanks! Did you use the rigid mount or did you use the one that came with the light?




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I bought the 2x2 cubes, 20" and 40" chinese bar and used Rigids mounts for all of them. All of the mounts worked just fine. The 20" and 40" are slightly longer than Rigids so it was tighter but they still fit without any problems.

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I believe that list should be Baja Designs, Rigid, and VisionX.

Cree themselves have some manufacturing plants in China...in addition to manufacturing plants in the US (North Carolina, I believe). I don't know what's made where.

I'm a bit torn on this issue. I'll probably not buy a Rigid/VisionX/Baja bar in the foreseeable future due to the price. I'm sure they're worth it, for someone who actually needs a light bar. For someone like me whose night offroading consists of a run or two a year over Saddleback mountain...well the stock non-HID brights work well.

It's not a function of the American item being more expensive than the Chinese one. It's a function of the Chinese one being effectively free.

Here's where the Chinese really F*** us over:

Moto X's 'Made in America' prestige could cost $5 per phone | The Verge

As in companies like Apple and Motorola were saving $5 per phone making them in China rather that the US. I believe this kind of behavior, i.e., proper beancounting, is what's going to be the end of us all if we don't change.

It's one thing to knowingly buy an vastly inferior product from overseas for a fraction of the price of a superior domestic product, if your needs only justify the inferior product. It's another thing to buy/sell a product whose manufacturing was shipped overseas in order to increase profits by 1%.

I would completely and 100% agree with this. It's the reason I have the chinese lights. 50% of their use is for blinding some ******* that cuts me off at night. The other 50% is for my once a month off-road excursions with the HARO group. Other than that, which would account for 99% of their life, they are off.

 

[NickPic83]

I tried messaging the seller about a 40" with CREE LED's but no response in a few days now...

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[Reptar]

the seller took a few days to respond to my offer on the 30" bar. but once he got back to me it shipped really quick.

 

[NickPic83]

Thanks reptar

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[no1]

Thank you very much. been looking led light bars that which i could afford. Those made in US would be in shipped to Europe over 3k