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These Rugged Ridge black door hinges are for those of you that have a 2007 and up JK and

are looking to change up the look of your Jeep by swapping over to some black hinges.

Now these are available for both the driver's side and the passenger side, and whether you

have a two-door or a four-door, you'll be able to use these on the front or the rear

doors.

So no matter what setup you have, you can get black hinges and get that look if that's

what you're after.

Now, there are some setups that will be hinge covers that you can purchase that are gonna

save you a little bit of money over purchasing these new black hinges.

However, if your hinges have bubbling paint, if they're a little bit rusty, if they're

worn out, or if you'd rather just swap out the whole thing rather than putting on a cover,

these are going to be a pretty nice option for you.

As with most parts Rugged Ridge that are more of an appearance part than anything else,

these are going to be priced fairly, in my opinion, for what they are.

These hinges are made of a cast steel that is covered in a black powder coat finish and

they are designed to be a direct replacement for the factory hinges.

All you need to do is unbolt those factory hinges, bolt these into place and you're good

to go.

These will slide right into the tub side of the hinge without any major modifications.

This install is going to be a very simple one out of three wrench installation, and

you should be able to get a pair of these hinges installed in about a half an hour,

maybe even a little bit less.

All you need to do is go ahead and unbolt those factory hinges from your door, lay these

in place and bolt them up with the included black hardware.

You're going to need an Allen head set of sockets for this job, and you may also wanna

have a razor knife handy to scour the paint around the factory hinges and around those

factory bolts to make sure that you don't pull additional paint off when removing those

hinges.

Other than that, there isn't a whole lot of adjustment in these hinges, you really just

bolt them up and you're finished.

Like I said before, I do think a pair of these hinges is fairly priced at right around $60.

If you are looking for a replacement, this is going to be significantly less expensive

than going to Mopar and trying to source a set of hinges from them.

And of course, you are getting the black styling with this setup.

If you do wanna save a little bit of money and you're just going through the look, you

can always get those covers and save a few dollars.

So if you're looking to swap out the hinges on your JK for a black set, I definitely recommend

taking a look at these ones from Rugged Ridge that you can get right here at extremeterrain.com.

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Jeep Wrangler KC HiLiTES 50" C-Series C50 LED Light Bar w/ Brackets (2007-2017 JK) Review & Install - Duration: 5:55.

The KC Hilites 50-inch LED light bar with over-windshield mount is for anyone who wants

to add a ton of auxiliary lighting to your Jeep.

There's really only one spot on your Wrangler that you can mount a 50-inch light, but putting

one above your windshield is going to give you a ton of forward-facing light that's going

to reach really far out in front of the trail.

Obviously, this is a light that you're not going to be able to run on roads where there's

oncoming traffic, it will certainly blind that oncoming traffic.

However, for those dark backroads and of course for the trails, this is going to provide a

ton of light.

It'll basically look like daylight out in front of your Jeep.

This bar in particular does have multiple beam patters all built into one, it comes

with your brackets, your wiring harness, this is really a one-stop-shop.

However, KC Hilites is known for making a really high-quality part and while this is

a very nice light, it also has a price tag that goes along with it.

So if you're looking for the best of the best and a one-stop-shop, this is a really nice

option if you have the budget for it.

However, if you are on a little bit more of a budget, or you're not interested in quite

as much light, but you want a 50-inch light bar, there are certainly some other brands

to take a look at like Raxiom or Rugged Ridge.

As far as construction goes, this light has an extruded aluminum housing with a Lexan

lens, and the brackets themselves are steel brackets covered in a black powder coat finish.

That finish is going to resist rust and corrosion, and it's going to look really good on your

Jeep no matter what color Wrangler you have.

The brackets do come with rubber gaskets to protect your factory paint from any chafing

and these are going to bolt directly onto your windshield hinges so you're not going

to have to do any modification to the Jeep.

Getting back to the light, this light bar has 96, 3-watt LEDs putting out a total of

27,000 lumens of light, reaching 1,500 meters down the trail.

Again, this is an incredibly bright light if you're looking for one of the brightest

50-inch light bars on the market, this is a good place to check out.

Now this does have Cree LEDs and if you've been doing some research you'll know that

Cree has a really good name in LEDs.

These lights are gonna last a very long time and of course they produce a ton of brightness.

This light bar is set up like a lot of the other 50-inch light bars on the market where

the center section is a spot beam and the outsides is a flood beam giving you that really

far reach down the trail but also a nice scattering of light to the left and to the right.

As I said before this also does come with a wiring harness like most KC lights do, and

that'll make getting this wired up very, very simple.

One of the things that makes this light bar look a little different from some of the others

that we see on the market is the pig tail that comes on the light itself.

Usually this is a much shorter pig tail that just has two wires sticking off it, and you

have to make a connection to your wiring harness.

This comes with a weather-proof screw connector and what's even better is that the pig tail

is nice and long.

What that allows you to do is hide your wiring behind the bracket and get down into the cal

[SP] before you make this connection to the rest of your wiring harness.

That just makes wiring this light up very clean, and it'll protect that connector so

you're never gonna have any issues with shorting out.

Something else that makes this light bar a little bit unique is that the LEDs have their

individual reflectors, but between those reflectors is a non-reflective ribbed plastic.

So it does give the light a little bit more of a stealthy look because it is a little

bit more blacked out than a lot of those other 50-inch light bars, but it doesn't affect

the light output at all.

This installation is a very simple 1 out of 3 wrenches.

Getting the brackets bolted on is as simple as removing the five factory bolts out of

the windshield edge covers, holding your bracket up to the Jeep and replacing those five bolts.

Now on the driver's side, you are going to wanna leave that bracket a little bit loose

so that you can pull your wires down behind that, again making for a really clean installation.

After the brackets are bolted into place, you'll simply drop your light bar into the

notch mounts on the top of it, and you're finished with that part.

The rest is just running the wires.

But again, even if you're not comfortable with automotive wiring, this is going to be

a very simple process for you.

All you're going to need is stretch out the included wiring harness, you'll pick up a

positive and a negative at your battery, plug the weathertight connector from the harness

into the light, and finally pull a wire through the firewall into the cab so that you can

wire up your switch.

Now that's a perfect fine way to wire up this light.

It'll come on and off when you flip the switch on and off, but if you are a little more comfortable

with automotive wiring, if you have some other auxiliary lights, or if you have a switch

pod, you could certainly make this wiring harness work with any of those other scenarios

as well.

The whole installation for this light will probably take you less than two hours to get

done, and you're not going to need any specialty tools or any wiring tools, just some traditional

hand tools and some torque splits.

For a setup like this that includes the brackets, the wiring harness is a really high-quality

light, the price that you have to pay is around $1,000.

And for some of you who are looking for the best of the best, who want a very easy installation

because they know all of these parts are gonna work together, that doesn't seem like a horrible

price because of the quality of the light you're getting.

Now I know there's a whole other group of you that are saying $1,000 for a light is

just crazy, and that's okay.

If you are in that group, as I said before, there are a lot of other brands of 50-inch

light bars that might throw as much light or throw quite as far or have as crisp of

a beam patter, but they're still gonna get the job done and they are gonna save you some

money.

So that's my review of the KC Hilites 50-inch LED light bar with over-windshield bracket

fitting all 2007 and up JKs that you can find right here at ExtremeTerrain.com.