KW headlight up grade

Comes as a complete kit. It has all 4 lights and 4 55/60 watt H/4 bulbs, they claim "plug and play" but it's not. You will need to rewire the factory plugs (move the wires in plug).
http://www.bigrigchromeshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=BRCS/PROD/HDLITB/GG82088
also comes in 100 watt

 

What did the set of four cost you?

 

There not cheap, depending on where you get them, it's $1250-$1350 for set of 4. But the way I look at it is this. If they save you from hitting just one animal they just paid for them selves. Not to mention the added comfort you get from them driving at night. Takes a lot of stress off the driver when you can see where your going. I think it funny people spend thousands on big 7"or 8" straight pipes that do nothing for safety or driver comfort. But then think it's retarded to drop that
kinda coin on headlights. I tell ya one thing, when it's 2am and your on some road you've never been on, trying to get some where you've never been before, and it's pitch black and raining. There worth every penny!!

 

on my w9 the back of the jw light (its a lot deeper than a standard halogen) squishes the connector they have with about 3-4 inches of wire on against the back of the headlight housing inside the front of the wheel well. I also had to grind some material off the inner circle of the backing plate that the light mounts into. ITs not like its gunna be hard to do right, it just for sure wasnt plug and play in my truck.

 

Wierd, I just thought those headlight buckets were perty much the same on all the trucks. I never had any issues with them fitting into my kenworth or my westernstar. I also know you can order a kenworth from the factory with these lights already installed. The local ws and kw dealers in town here sell these lights and install a lot of them also. Haven't heard of any problems.
What year is your w9?? The buckets might be diffrent if it's an older, as in pre 2000.

 

One more thing, I just remembered, the wire on the back of the light, I did have to position it so the plug was off to the side, so the back of the light has room. It's a little tight but wasn't a problem at all. Maybe your buckets are a wee bit smaller , not sure.

 

Its a 2006 and now I did install these in the middle of the night outside in the cold but i saw no way to get it to fit in the stock configuration. I ground some metal to get them to seat in like they should and just squished the connector but will take it apart here when i have time to see about the connector issue and splice if i think its the best option. I havent driven it at night since i put them in since im in college but the initial test drive I did when i got them installed, lets just say I was impressed and for the farmwork I do they will help a lot on the back rural roads!

 

and the wires came off on the back of the light more on one side of the back so it was really only a problem on one light per side. (say the wires came off the drivers side of light, the problem lights were low beam drivers side and high beam passenger side because I was trying to get the connector to the middle dead space)

 

I was considering getting just the JL speaker the low beams . My High beams work just fine. $ 340 a bulb iirc.

My concern was that the led itself may last 30000 hrs but the lens would get road rashed becoming translucent and reducing the visible light. I currently use H4's and just replace the bulbs in the housings, but the lens on the housings shows some road rash damage within a year and becomes a problem in less than 2 years.

If the polycarbonate lens was replaceable than maybe they would be the last light you would ever buy but that's not the case. I'd be looking at $700 replacement costs every other year.