The big draw for me is less glare off the hood when the lights are on the mirror, and from the images they've posted it looks like there's very minimal light spilled on the hood. Problem with A-pillar mounted pod lights is that if you get any meaningful flood pattern directed where they should be, it's all going to spill onto your hood and blind you. The brightest pod lights money can buy are meaningless if your hood is illuminated so much that it causes your pupils to constrict and reduce your night vision. My desert taco has a one piece white fiberglass hood (the really wide trophy truck style) and a traditional lightbar setup above the windshield throws so much light back into the cab that you can actually see better at night with it off...I ended up moving the lightbar further back so the roof kept the light off the hood and it was a major improvement. Same concept applies here, save the A-pillar mounts for a pair of LEP pods (laser) that don't spill light on the hood.
I have pods now with elevated mounting points so I am familiar with what they look like when in use. I also aim mine more laterally to minimize that hood glare. I always roll my eyes when I see videos of people that mount them facing directly forward. I'm mainly curious is they work as well as illuminating the peripheral area. Are they comparable with the brightness as the Pods and being able to see in those areas.
Yes, this should work. We are going to test it out on Monday to confirm.
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These look great! Thanks for sharing!It was a cold, wet day, but I got them installed. Pretty easy.
Had a chance to try them tonight. They're about like a slightly floody flashlight, the beam profile is round with a gradually increasing hot spot toward the center, so you get some light going down as well as above. Illumination wise they seem to be more or less on par with the headlights. For me, the LH pattern is just about in line with the mirror itself, so if you look just above the mirror that's where the center is. RH side is centered just to the right of the trail sight. I caught a tiny bit of light reflected off the trail sight when I turned them on, but it's almost negligible. Didn't see any light spill on the hood at all, might have been a small amount on the curve of the quarter panel but again, negligible. Beam pattern doesn't mesh with the headlight pattern, there's some gap there, but in my case I have some pods in the bumper that already fill that space. It's completely illuminated everywhere from the center out a little bit past the mirror.
Oh, and don't be like me and forget to pop that rubber plug out where your camera goes.
But the installation video said it was a quick 20 minute install and the mirror caps easily snapped into place
