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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 12:06 PM
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I want to add LED headlights to my 1996 Cherokee,and I don't know what's good and what's not. I want some something that's fairly easy to install;basically plug and play. Thanks in advance!
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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 12:17 PM
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You want led it's either truck light or jw's. All those cheaper ones on ebay or Amazon you need to avoid. any reason why you want led?
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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Martlor13
You want led it's either truck light or jw's. All those cheaper ones on ebay or Amazon you need to avoid. any reason why you want led?
Im just looking for something brighter,and cool looking.
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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ZacharyA7X
Im just looking for something brighter,and cool looking.
You can get an h4 upgrade and harness for a quarter of the price of leds. If you really want the "look", like I said it's trucklites and jw, with trucklites being the cheaper option at about $400.
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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 03:40 PM
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I went with Truck lites and I love them. Real easy to install straight plug and play. After I installed them however I felt the need to convert all of my other lights to L.E.D.
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Old Dec 13, 2016 | 03:56 PM
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I had Truck-L,,, liked them alot, Now I have JWs.. If you don't use High beams alot, I would go with Truck-Ls.
The low beams on the JWs are just as good as Truck-Ls in my opinion. Check out VID


Watch in full screen HD if you can



Keep In mind,,Truck-L and JW's will not do good in wet heavy snow fall.. Dry cold snow fall they do great.

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Old Dec 14, 2016 | 04:14 PM
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I have the Truck-Lites on my '96. They're great. No regrets.
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Old Dec 16, 2016 | 05:55 AM
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Please read this.

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f67/headlights-203245/
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Old Dec 16, 2016 | 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by lifted96xj.ricky
I went with Truck lites and I love them. Real easy to install straight plug and play. After I installed them however I felt the need to convert all of my other lights to L.E.D.
Did you upgrade your wiring harness when you did the headlights?
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Old Dec 16, 2016 | 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by ZacharyA7X
Did you upgrade your wiring harness when you did the headlights?
It's so inexpensive considering the benefit (especially if you have the components just laying arond) why wouldn't you?
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Old Dec 16, 2016 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbo X_J
It's so inexpensive considering the benefit (especially if you have the components just laying arond) why wouldn't you?
That's what I figure. Thank you
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Old Dec 17, 2016 | 02:35 PM
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Ill just leave these here for others.. LED headlights do not produce enough heat to melt snow..


This is Truck-lite gen 2.




This is JW Speakers 8900 E 2



Have to clean them off every few miles during night driving.
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Old Dec 17, 2016 | 02:44 PM
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Since the TruckLites are plug-and-play, you could get some cheap E-code halogens and swap to those in the winter.

Or get some halogen fog lights (like the Hella fog-pattern lights), and run those in heavy snowfall for supplemental lighting (what I think I am going to do)
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Old Dec 17, 2016 | 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by investinwaffles
Since the TruckLites are plug-and-play, you could get some cheap E-code halogens and swap to those in the winter.

Or get some halogen fog lights (like the Hella fog-pattern lights), and run those in heavy snowfall for supplemental lighting (what I think I am going to do)
OR just get some nice h4 and not switch back and forth haha
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