New LED Headlight from JW Speaker

[paul65k]

Probably worded that wrong....they probably don't have chineses factories knocking out accessories for 1/4 of their retail price...unless the factory making them is knocking them off, which is pretty common. Even for HD it would be nearly impossible to shut them down.

That's the risk you take when you send your manufacturing offshore. If your product is popular, they will knock it off and before you know it, it's all over eBay for less than your cost.

In the case of this headlight, isn't the Daymaker made by JW Speaker? They probably outsource manufacturing as well, but that's beside the point. The 8700 E2 is all over Amazon for $260 give or take. The 8700 probably fits a lot of vehicles as well as HD. HD takes the same light, puts it in a HD box and doubles the price.

I spent 25 years in outsourced/offshore manufacturing and can tell you for a fact that our smaller competitors were notorious for knocking off popular products.......OEM's like Harley (or Apple, Dell, etc...) are very conscious of this and as a result only work with the largest companies to keep this under control. Unfortunately a company like JW speaker doesn't have the volume to do this and as a result will work with smaller companies and the by-product of this is that eventually there will be a mysterious "3rd shift" pumping out clones when the JW rep is back in the states.......I've seen it too many times for it to be funny.

This is especially true when the product is "Universal" as are the 7" round(s) headlight installation which uses a standard interface.......even if you do need a special cable to combine the Hi-Lo back to the standard interface........all in all there will still be enough people out there who will always drink the HD "Kool-aid" and buy the branded product for 2-3X the price......nothing new here.........kind of like buying a "Harley" 1157 turn signal bulb for 3-4X what the same bulb costs at Autozone

 

[chaderick]

this is the new JW Evo 2. I love this headlight. Very wide pattern

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[bill_1202]

I just bought the Fuel Moto LED replacement bulb kit for my 2014 SG and have not installed them. Does anyone know the differences between the JW Speaker EVO 2 and just replacing the halogen bulbs with LED bulbs?

http://www.fuelmotousa.com/i-223425...adlight-replacement-bulb-pair-hi-lo-beam.html

 

[Aviator5456]

I spent 25 years in outsourced/offshore manufacturing and can tell you for a fact that our smaller competitors were notorious for knocking off popular products.......OEM's like Harley (or Apple, Dell, etc...) are very conscious of this and as a result only work with the largest companies to keep this under control. Unfortunately a company like JW speaker doesn't have the volume to do this and as a result will work with smaller companies and the by-product of this is that eventually there will be a mysterious "3rd shift" pumping out clones when the JW rep is back in the states.......I've seen it too many times for it to be funny.

This is especially true when the product is "Universal" as are the 7" round(s) headlight installation which uses a standard interface.......even if you do need a special cable to combine the Hi-Lo back to the standard interface........all in all there will still be enough people out there who will always drink the HD "Kool-aid" and buy the branded product for 2-3X the price......nothing new here.........kind of like buying a "Harley" 1157 turn signal bulb for 3-4X what the same bulb costs at Autozone

The biggest problem from H-D and J.W. is the price of these items cost nowhere near the retail price to manufacture and they know it so they will make bank on these as long as they can and until someone starts knocking off seconds at a much cheaper price and until they can figure out improvements to the current model and discontinue the old model...

 

[Ybcuz]

Hello , does anyone know if these are direct plug and play on a 2009? it looks like only 13 and above need the adapter.

Thanks in advance.

 

[bigsixman]

Hello , does anyone know if these are direct plug and play on a 2009? it looks like only 13 and above need the adapter.

Thanks in advance.

X2, I would like to find out if it will work on a 2009 SG.

 

[TomA]

I cant answer your question but the best way to find out is take your headlight out and if its a single plug yes if not you may need a different harness. I think but not sure that the 2014's started the 2 lights in the bucket that you need the harness to change back to 1.

 

[AlanD]

Anyone tried the LED headlight offered by Long Ride Shields? Price is very competitive, but not sure about the quality...

 

[Ybcuz]

I rolled the dice and picked one up, you need to purchase a new mounting ring and its a straight plug N play on the 2009.

 

[Kevsbigred]

Rigid has a single 7" Looks pretty decent, and if it's like any of their other led lights it's gotta be a great product.


http://www.rigidindustries.com/led-lighting/55002


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[breal916]

Thinking about getting the 8700 evolution 2 for a 16' SGS is there anything else I need other than the adaptor mentioned below?

 

[mvrigger]

Thinking about getting the 8700 evolution 2 for a 16' SGS is there anything else I need other than the adaptor mentioned below?

No..but while you have it apart good time to consider a different trim ring or to stay with the stock one

 

[Crumb]

I would also look into the new custom dynamics headlight

 

[RuknRole]

JWS 8700 Evo 2 came in today. Cool beans! I'll probably install it over the weekend.

Thanks Hulkss for all the info!