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 Post subject: Interest in bolt in KJ LED foglights:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:13 am 
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I'm talking to a manufacturer who can make a derivative of a JK wrangler foglight for out KJs that is bolt in. The modification required is small, but requires a new mold be made for the aluminum housing.

With this modification to the housing these lights are a bolt in replacement, and for a vehicle already equipped with fogs its a 10 minute install.

However, the tooling cost is $3200 to get the modified mold made. No way in hell I'm personally taking that on. My thought is that with enough interest from owners willing to commit to sharing the change order costs we could get an attractive price per unit/owner for the change.

I have been testing these lights in the CRD and they are fantastic, the other day in a snowstorm I turned off the headlights and just used the foglights since they threw less light up high and I had less snowflake blinding light.

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The lights themselves run about $20-30 for a pair, but the shipping per unit is often about as much as the purchase price. Since these are not being imported by the container full shipping costs are fairly high from China to US, and then within the US as well.


My thoughts are roughly this, I create a gofundme where owners can commit a certain amount to share the cost of getting the mold made. Maybe set the price as $X = 1 share of the molding cost. When a total of Y shares have been bought via gofundme, each owner will be able to purchase a pair of lights per each "share" they bought AT COST delivered to their door. The cost of the share and the cost of the light would end up being less than purchasing a similar set of JK wrangler foglights, and also be bolt in.

Basically you pre-order and place a deposit per light, and when they are ready for purchase you pay the remainder due per light. If I don't get enough pre-orders everyone gets their deposits back. Now that I typed that, thats a much easier way to explain it.

Want more lights than you pre-ordered? You pay the regular price(TBD).

Want to wait and see what the regular price is? Then this may not happen, the only way this can work is with people interested in committing now so in a couple of months we can these available.

Lets just assume some numbers right now, $30 deposit for pre-order. $30 per pair of lights, $30 shipping to your door. Thats still less than comparable Wrangler lights which do not fit the KJ.


Let me know your thoughts.

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 Post subject: Re: Interest in bolt in KJ LED foglights:
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:02 pm 
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Did you try using LED lights instead? It seems like a much easier task to me (changing them). LED fog lights are growing in popularity. They provide many advantages over halogen fog lights, and for some drivers, switching to LED is a great choice. Although LED fog lights are considerably more expensive than their halogen counterparts, they can actually save you money in the long run as you won't have to change them that often, by far. Moreover, the light is much better and significantly increases the visibility.


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 Post subject: Re: Interest in bolt in KJ LED foglights:
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It seems like a much easier task to me (changing them). LED fog lights are growing in popularity. They provide many advantages over halogen fog lights, and for some drivers, switching to LED lights is a great choice. Although LED fog lights are considerably more expensive than their halogen counterparts, they can actually save you money in the long run as you won't have to change them that often, by far. Moreover, the light is much better and significantly increases the visibility.


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