Installing headlight strobes?

If your talkin' about alternating/flashing headlights, you might want to think it over. The're illegal in Canada and reserved for emergency services only. Just a nice set of HID's should look pretty slick.

i got them in my truck ..i dont have the flashing headlights on purpose since i dont want to have any problems with the local boys in blue but i have them in the headlights themselves

i use them when i'm snow plowing something or when some moron doesnt see my turn signal when i'm trying to parallel park

They'll only be used when the vehicle is parked and were just hangin around. I'd love to have them in time for mardi gras which is jus a couple weeks away. And Tahoe I'm not sure exactly what your saying you have but i'm looking for the ones that just make the inside of your headlight assembly strobe.

If you go to www.galls.com you can order a kit and they aren't terribly hard to install. I had an 8 strobe setup on my old truck and I loved them. When I sold my truck I installed them in one of my ambulances. Its a matter of running wires and hooking up the control switches. The kit will come with instructions. I only regret drilling the holes for the strobes on the tops of my headlight housings instead of the side or bottom. When it rained I would always blow out headlight bulbs. Whelen is a good brand...just gowith a 60watt strobe, you wont need anything else. Also, go with clear, not much else is legal.

Thanks alot Jay

what i ment was that i have strobes installed in the head light housings themselves....not the headlight flashing themselves , JayMack75 that was an awsome advise about the location on how to install the stobes since in the instructions it just states install using a 1" hole or something to that matter.

Tahoe what brand did you use because i'm not finding the ones Jay recommended.

http://streetglow.com/site/strobes.xenonheadlight.php

Hey what do you guys think of these. They're alot cheaper but they look alright

Check on Ebay they have stobes of all types from the streetglow to the professional LE type.
I may just look into some myself

Doing alternating headlights are easy just a few parts needed

Tim

like jay said galls is a good place to go to get them.. a few people from my firehouse got them from there and was very happy

Kris, when you get 'em done, lemme know where you got them done at... I want to put a wig-wag kit on my headlights, and go with some strobes in back in the taillight lenses probably. Thinking bout joining a vol. firefighter post around here and they'd be real handy.... Hell, even if I didn't, I still have plenty of uses for 'em

Crawdaddy said:

Kris, when you get 'em done, lemme know where you got them done at... I want to put a wig-wag kit on my headlights, and go with some strobes in back in the taillight lenses probably. Thinking bout joining a vol. firefighter post around here and they'd be real handy.... Hell, even if I didn't, I still have plenty of uses for 'em

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your lucky, in maryland as a volly we cant have any lights

finalday7 said:

Tahoe what brand did you use because i'm not finding the ones Jay recommended.

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Here is a link to a 4 head 60w kit. http://www.galls.com/style.html?assort=general_catalog&style=GR184 I wouldn't go with street glow. Those are cheap, and, well...reference signature. lol! Seriously, they blink slow, they are dim and they just are no comparison to actual strobes. Let me know if I can help in any other way!

Alright I wont go with the cheap one's :grrrrrr:....Looks like they'll be coming along alittle latter for 300 bucks.

Its worth it I promise if you did get the street glows you wouldnt be satisfied. I thought I was all cool and stuff rolling up with my little street glow blinky blinkys then another guy turned on his strobes and shut me down. I learned my lesson...I'm even going to one-up it...I'm putting LED strobe heads all over inside and outside of the Suburban when it comes time.

i have a 90 watt 6 whelen strobe kit in my tahoe ..look on ebay for whelen strobe ....i got mine for under 200 bucks

How's the drain on the battery if your trucks off with the 60 and 90w kits?

you dont ... just kidding .. i have actually never tried to use them with the truck off to me its like leaving your headlights on with the car off

I probably wouldn't either....those strobes are 90 watts and such, and on bulbs, the current required to initially light the bulb is greater than the regular draw, just like when you first power up an electric motor. Then compound that by theoretically pulling that increase cureent at least twice a second, I'd imagine the battery would be drained pretty darn fast....