probably one of the first mods that every new jeep owner installs or looks up is off-road
lighting it's the big elephant in the room and it's probably one of the most debated topics
on the internet especially youtube if you guys know me from previous channels you know that
i've installed pretty much every brand every major brand and even the cheaper lights on my off-road
rigs i have a ton of experience when it comes to the wiring the quality the capability of these
lights and after all those years all the installs all the technical details behind them i've come
down to my decision that i will only be running one brand of lights that brand is diodynamics
now what i'm going to tell you with this channel it's kind of neat i can tell you exactly what
lights i run what brands i recommend and why i personally recommend them i'm going to start off
this one too by saying diode dynamics hasn't paid me to do this video um justin over there at diode
one of my good friends now we have an extremely good relationship these guys when i tell you their
service their customer service their quality and everything is top-notch i really do mean it so if
you're looking at the title of this video it's not meant to be misleading it's to try and show
you exactly how well these lights are and why i won't be running anything else on my brand new
jeeps and on any other jeeps you see me or ryan owning on this channel a little bit of backstory
on diodynamics probably the biggest thing and one of the most meaningful right here are both
of these two logos assembled in the u.s and that they are sae and dot compliant now diet dynamics
over the years i believe began in about 2006 and you've probably known them or heard of them in the
beginning if you were replacing halogen bulbs on a vehicle back in the early 2000s so if you had
an f-150 if you had a mustang things like that they sold led replacement bulbs for your halogen
bulbs so to give you a much crisper a much cleaner look i'll tell you over the years most vehicles
have gone led and i think what they did is they shifted from an already extremely successful model
and moved to the off-road industry because they figured why not we're doing so much in the led
game we can pretty much disrupt or fill a void in the off-road lighting industry and that's exactly
what they did there's a lot of cool things that diodynamics came out with but probably the coolest
thing for me is that the people and the guys that work over there they're just extremely humble and
they're great guys you know when i represent a light when i want to represent a brand i want to
be able to back them up and know that if you call them or you have a specific need for even like
this one here the ssc2 where it's a cut in half standard cube light they can fill those needs with
a ton of different optics and a lot of different features on them so when i talk about filling a
void in the market i like the fact that diode answered the problems to the off-road consumers
so when i say that this light that i'm holding in front of me is basically a half size of your
standard cube now they first created this because there was a need for a thinner a slimline light
that you could use on a roof rack you could do low profile up on the a-pillar or maybe you wanted to
throw a couple extra lights on the hood the neat thing that i found with these guys is they offer
a wide variety of different driving patterns there's almost so many of these lights it was hard
to keep track of all the stock numbers on them but they offer a ton of varieties depending on exactly
where you need the light and how you intend on using it probably the coolest thing for me though
like i just mentioned before when a consumer asks a question or has a problem to be filled
and a company like diode fills that or answers it and doesn't say you know i don't want to do that
because maybe it doesn't make us so much profit maybe it'll lose some of this i like when people
or companies take the initiative to really answer what the consumers want and they did so this was
one of the first ones that they kind of introduced after their original cubes by splitting it in half
now they're up to a ton of different varieties they've got one that even splits this in half it's
the ssc one so if you need like almost a quarter or half dollar size light they offer that as well
and also their big boy ss5 lights which i'm hoping to get a set on my brand new bumpers when they
come in here those have backlighting all different features on them but they answered all of these
questions they answered all of the problems and i really can appreciate that so mixing all that
together and then adding a great person to talk to on the other end of the phone it's kind of
a no-brainer with these lights so let's show you an example of the quality i'm gonna open up this
set of ss c2 stage series lights now first off these are the dot compliant lights in the amber
finish now what's extremely nice about these is i mean first and foremost the overall quality how
everything is cast with those heat sinks in the back too to disperse a lot of the heat on there as
well i really like the fact that on most of these they are backlit compatible so this one has an
amber full-time running light but then there's also an amber backlight so if you turn it around
the coolest thing for me and over the years i've really appreciated this is this built-in deutsch
connector into the back of the light now you might be thinking matt why is that a big deal i
mean who cares that this is built into the back of the light so here's one of the pigtails as
an example this will easily clip right back into there actually i say easily but they are weather
tight so you hear that click on there but when you have this running into the back you've just
extremely reduced the amount of wire that you have to tuck into tight cow panels run through to your
battery and what i found with a lot of the other brands since they had a pigtail coming off of this
about 10 inches now i had to find a way to connect that underneath the cow panel run it underneath
the hood and sometimes i know personally on my jks if the pigtail wasn't long enough i would
have this giant deutsche connector pigtail out there and i i really just didn't like the look of
it it didn't look clean so with this you can buy them just with these standard pigtails or with an
entire harness but overall i really really like the look of that too it gives it a much cleaner
and more ergonomic look and plus you can't lose where the deutsch connector is so if you ever want
to disconnect the lights as easy as pushing that in and now the lights disconnected you can swap
a new one out into it the build quality of these lights and everything that you can get with them
it they're just awesome you know there's nothing to it you can pull these outer sections out even
paint match them and then the nice thing with these is they have different levels so you have
base you have pro and then now you even have a max i believe you can choose the light output the beam
direction the beam style the backlight color you can customize these to exactly the way that you
want which i think is awesome on a light like this you know i can use these wherever i need to on the
vehicle they've pretty much added an ability for me to put any size light exactly where i need
it and overall the quality on these i mean you can't feel it i'd hand it to you but they're just
awesome they're built extremely extremely well and i can't say enough about how good these look
on the vehicle they're an oem plus and how well they will perform when you're running them now
the reason i wanted to bring up these lights today is just to talk about i mean of course all their
quality all the reasons i plan on running them onto my jeep and of course the reason why these
will be the only off-road lights on this vehicle now the thing for me is that i'm not going to be
keeping a lot of this stock so like i mentioned before in the previous videos the front plastic
bumper will be going this is going to be soon gone off of this vehicle when i decide to show you guys
the bumpers i do have on order for the front and the rear now on those i plan on running those
bigger ss5 lights which i don't have yet but i really wanted to get that larger cube to help fill
in some of that space on the front bumper and due to the fact that the ones that i have coming in do
not have the factory fog light options so i'm not going to be able to reuse my factory fogs in there
i will be using aftermarkets and i'll probably wire them right into that h13 or h4 or whatever
adapter it is to the front fog light wiring so i can still activate it using the factory switches i
plan on running some on the a-pillars here i will get some brackets and probably be putting those
on too but you guys will have to wait and see and see exactly which ones i decide to go with there's
so many options with these lights i really need to dial in what i choose for upfront what i do on the
a-pillars and then maybe i'll even throw in some in the reverse wire those all up and give you a
couple tricks on how to wire them up we've got a lot of cool things coming especially with the new
jls and the fact that we have factory auxiliary switches i'll show you how to wire them up where
the wiring is located maybe even a quick hack for the rear on how to easily wire up reverse lights
with kind of a product that i've been designing created a little while ago so you guys are gonna
have to stay tuned but in this video i wanted to give a huge shout out to diode and i think there
is every reason for you guys to go on and search these lights pick up a set for your off-road rig
or maybe maybe even your on-road rig these guys literally have everything you could ask for online
they have factory fog light solutions if you don't want to go after market and they've got
all sorts of wiring options for you to just plug and play or wire it up completely custom the way
that you need to now hopefully by now we have a coupon code on here to help save you a little
cash on this vendor that i can say is one of my top tier they're my preferred they're my go-to
guys so until next time my name is matt from dirt road cred get out there and earn yours
you