Ultra Vision Nitro 80 Maxx LED Driving Light

Great quality lights at a premium price with subpar accessories – I bought the nitro 80s for my jeep. My objective reasoning for spending $1000.00, which is twice as much as other good brands and 10 times more than the cheapest units was simply because they're small format, available in 4500k colour temperature and Australian assembled which is rare but great to see. I'm not sure all components are made locally… Read more

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So to my surprise that $1000.00 doesn't get you any form of piggy back pickup where your competitors provide several. If you're the sort of person who loves cutting up the factory loom this is fine - I'm not that guy so there's another expense already.

You provide locking nuts for the bracket but generic "security torx" fasteners for the lights so the part of the light that is exposed and visible to everyone can be undone with any generic torx key or or socket - apparently even though their advertising says they come with it security keys of the fact is if you actually want security bolts you have to pay for them on top of the already incredibly high' purchase price.

The on/off switch is ridiculously cheap and just a rattles. There is no way to fix it in dashboard plastics and is only attached with double sided tape - as if this is not bad enough this is the same type of switch I have seen fitted to $80 light bars from China which is a joke - I'm now spending more money buying one of your competitors switches to fix into the dashboards like one would expect for $1,000 light.

The covers snapped off the first time I tried unclipping them to clean underneath, they're incredibly thin and flimsy, they were binned literally at the end of the first week.

I'm not really that impressed for the money you know, I just don't see where the extra for $500 has gone compared to other premium products? Whilst I understand assembling them in Australia is more expensive than assembling them overseas I'm not sure that once I've replaced the dodgy components I've got a objective $600 value over your competitors lights....which is maybe what I should have bought.

Now I've had these for sometime and used them in the conditions they're designed for and wanted to make some comments regarding performance of the actual lights since I've already made comments about the poor hardware supplied.

In short the output is good, spread is fine, distance is adequate for driving narrow roads for example but don't expect to be wowed like ultravision lead you to believe in the literature. The 4500k temperature range is easier on the eyes which is nice but the near to mid output is not even close to my $380 light bar from one of your competitors.

*8 months old and full of condensation even though it lives in a garage...I phoned ultravision and was told someone would get back to me but of course they did not. I'm struggling to justify the purchase of these all the time.