Reviews for Quadratec J5 LED Light Bar with Amber Clearance Cab Lights
I purchased the J5 light with the Fishbone mounts and additional 3x3 Quadratec cube light combo. I'm a little disappointed that the wires will not fit under the bracket on the A pillar, only the marker light wire will. Also the light makes a ton of wind noise, I am not sure how people are saying there is none. When you hit 45mph, it sounds like a tornado. Also the 2 metal strips that cover the screw heads, that run on top and bottom of the entire lens, have come loose and rattle when driving.
Light bar looks great itself as well as mount. Installation was ok, video certainly helped. Only downfall is the bolts on wrangler aren’t quite long enough to grab threads. I had to leave 2 bolts out, 1 on each side, no way I was going to be able to get them to catch onto the thread. Haven’t experienced any noise, very durable, once again, looks great!
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This light bar would be a perfect 5/5 if Quadratec would offer noise isolators with the J5 and other mounting options. My Wrangler has a Gobi full roof rack, and the side mounting points were not ideal. Also, please BE AWARE, this, like all led light bars do whistle pretty loud. I have a hard top and the whistle was extreme starting at 40mph. I highly recommend doing research and being prepared for this. I want zero noise from the bar so I purchased an AeroLidz light bar silencer for mine. Also, PLEASE NOTE the length of wire harness from the cigarette lighter to switch is very short, make sure your switch mounting location is close enough to your cigarette lighter to plug into..The bar is extremely bright for a single row, and the clearance lights are the coolest.. Love the glow off the hood!!!! FAVORITE MOD ON THE RUBICON!!! A+ customer service too!!
Not all JLs have daytime running lights. So the DRL adapter is not a good option. I tried! How else do we find power for the ambient lighting? Your video has a micro fuse tap into fuse box but the fuse keeps breaking! 2019 JL unlimited sport.
Got in the light bar, the mounting brackets and the wiring harness. I have a JL and the instructions online are showing how to hook it up for a JK. I reached out to Quadratec for instructions as to how and plug in the amber lights on the JL but they were not able to provide anything therefore only 3 stars. I will adjust if I hear back from them. The brackets were received without the gaskets therefore I installed without and until they can send me some. Had trouble with one screw not being long enough...currently trying to figure out an option for that. Hope to hear back from Quadratec about the plug in for the amber lights.
Amber lights don’t work when hooked up as instructed.