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Exterior Lighting

Extend vision distance dramatically with a dedicated external lighting system.

Powerful

Custom exterior lighting can be dramatically more powerful than the stock headlights in your car. Whether you're looking to enhance visibilty around your car for off road driving, or you want to be able to see farther ahead on country roads, an exterior lighting system makes for a great investment.

Customizable

When you get an exterior lighting system from V0LT, everything is installed exactly to your preferences. You get to decide where the control panels and lights go, what features you want, and how you want the wiring installed.

Safe

Being able to see farther on remote roads can make the difference between hitting an animal, and getting enough warning to avoid a collision. Likewise, V0LT's external lighting systems are installed using thick guage wire, fuses, and other appropriate safety features to prevent your lighting system from becoming a hazard in itself in the event of a system failure.

Servicable

V0LT lighting systems are installed with detachable connectors in order to make future upgrades or adjustments as easy as possible, even if you choose to do them yourself.

Upgradable

V0LT lighting systems are designed to be upgradable, meaning it's easy for technical customers to upgrade their own system, and less expensive should you choose to have your system upgraded by V0LT later on.

Durable

All lights available in V0LT lighting systems are completely waterproof and impact resistant, and are manufacturered by a well respected brand. All light bars and perimeter lights are capable of being fully submerged, as well as withstanding direct impacts from rocks, branches, and debris.

Disclaimers

Despite being legal in themselves, it's important to understand the legality implications of an external lighting system. Needless to say, you should never use an external lighting system in a situation where you may blind other drivers. Traditional headlights use reflectors to direct light down, away from other drivers' eyes. Aftermarket lighting systems do the exact opposite, and flood light over the largest area possible. Powerful aftermarket lighting systems should be used away from other drivers. Many states have laws that restrict the use of aftermarket lighting systems entirely on public roads.

It's also important to note that mounting external lights will almost always require drilling holes in the plastic panels of your car. These panels can technically be replaced fairly affordably, an external lighting system is much more permenant than many of the other V0LT installation services.

While the wiring for an external lighting system installed by V0LT is almost entirely concealed, there will no doubt be places where the additional wires will be visible. Depending on your vehicle, there might be places where the wiring can't be routed behind panels and will need to be exposed for a few inches. If you'd like to know more about how an installation would look on your particular car, but aren't ready to commit to purchase, don't hestitate to get in touch. There's no commitment until you decide to purchase a system.



Consulting

If you want an aftermarket lighting system, but don't know what components and features would be a good value for your budget, you can have a system designed for you, based on your needs, wants, and budget.

If you're interested in learning more about an exterior lightning system, feel free to get in contact at no charge. The fee for a more in-depth consultation is $20/hour.

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Front Lights

Front-facing lights are useful for extending the reach of your existing headlights to improve safety and situational awareness.

A side profile of the front of a sedan in a dark foggy parking lot, with bright lightbar casting a cone of light ahead. A street-lamp back-lit sedan in a dark foggy parking lot, pictured from the front right corner, with head lights, fog lights, and a center light bar illuminating the area ahead.
    • If you don't want aftermarket lighting in the front of your car, you can skip it.

    • A 12 inch LED light bar is a compact and discrete way to dramatically improve your visibility. It's small enough to fit on practically any car, but still far brighter than the stock headlights.
    • The 12 inch light bar comes in either a flood light or spot light variant. The flood light acts like your headlights, and covers a wide area in front of the car. The spot light variant projects light in a more focused beam for improved long range visibility.

    • A 20 inch LED light bar will drastically improve your visibility over the stock headlights in your car.
    • The 20 inch light bar comes with a combination of spot and flood light lenses to create a beam pattern that's both far-reaching and wide.

    • A 36 inch light bar is large enough to illuminate a massive area, but will likely not fit on a typical car without protruding awkwardly.
    • If you have an off-road vehicle or work truck, a light this size could be a great multipurpose tool.

    • A 44 inch light bar is one of the largest lightbars you can reasonably buy, and almost certainly won't fit on anything other than an off road vehicle or work truck.
    • A light bar like this is a great tool if you want to use your truck to illuminate a large work area.

Perimeter Lights

  • Perimeter lights are light placed around the side fenders of your car, and are designed to illuminate roughly 10 meters around the perimeter of your car.
  • These lights are extremely compact and discrete, and are designed to give you better awareness in remote areas where there may not be any other sources of light to illuminate your surroundings.
  • Two lights is enough to dramatically increase your visiblity on both sides of the car. For a more consistent and visually appealing lighting pattern, 4 lights can be used to cover each corner of the car. Additional lights can create an even smoother bubble of visibility, but 4 should be enough for most purposes.
  • While typically placed on the sides of the car, perimeter lights can also be placed on the front or the back to provide better visibility at close range for parking or driving off-road.
Brown sedan sitting in the shade on a sunny day, with two bright lights on either end of the side fender. Overhead view of a sedan in the dark with the headlights and 4 perimeter lights illuminating the surrounding area.

Auxiliary Lights

  • Auxiliary lights are self-contained light pods designed augment the primary lighting zones in your aftermarket lighting system.
  • These lights have an extremely tight field of view, and are intended to augment existing lighting zones with extremely long distance illumination.
  • These lights can be installed independently of a light-bar and don't need one to be installed to operate. However, it's recommended that these lights be used in tandem with other lighting components to create an even lighting pattern.
  • Auxilary lights are typically used to boost visibility at long range in tight zones that you may be of specific importance, such as the path directly in front of the car, or slightly angled to spot wildlife and other hazards beside the road.
  • Auxiliary lights are completely optional, and you can have as few or as many as you want.
Overhead view of a sedan in the dark with the headlights and 4 perimeter lights illuminating the surrounding area.

Rear Lights

Rear-facing lights are useful for improving your visibility while reversing in remote areas. While they have few practical uses on the road, they provide great peace-of-mind in unknown areas, and dramatically improve situational awareness.

A sedan in a dark parking lot pictured at a distance from the back right corner, with blinding lights on the rear, sides, and front of the car flooding the surrounding area with cool white light.
    • If you don't want aftermarket lighting in the rear of your car, you can skip it.

    • A dual 4 inch light bar setup is extremely compact, but provides more than enough illumination for reversing in the darkest conditions.

    • A 12 inch light bar is capable of illuminating a wide area behind your vehicle, making it the perfect tool to illuminate a small work area.
    • If you want a setup that dramatically improves situation awareness, a 12 inch light bar is the perfect bang-for-buck option.

    • A 20 inch light bar is completely overkill for reversing, but allows you to use your car as a portable temporary lighting system for outdoor events. Whether you're camping, at an outdoor party, or even trying to fix a car in a remote area, a 20 inch rear light bar can be a great tool.

    • A 36 inch light bar is large enough to illuminate a massive area, but may not fit nicely on the back of a typical car.
    • If you have an off-road vehicle or work truck, a light this size could be a great multipurpose tool.

    • A 44 inch light bar is one of the largest lightbars you can reasonably buy, and almost certainly won't fit on anything other than an off road vehicle or work truck.
    • A light bar like this is a great tool if you want to use your truck to illuminate a large work area.

Controls

It goes without saying that you don't want your lighting system to be on all the time. This is where you get to decide how to control your exterior lighting system.

    • This option allows you to toggle your entire lighting system on and off with a single switch. If you only have one type of external lighting, or want to always have the entire system either on or off, this is a great, simple, affordable option.

    • This is a reliable, upgradable way to control your vehicle's external lighting system. A simple panel with several switches allows you to individually toggle each external lighting element.
    • If you want to be able to easily upgrade and modify your lighting system, this is a great option.

Mounting

There's plenty of different ways external lighting can be mounted. Here's where you can select the option that best fits your situation.

    • If you have a bash-bar, roof-rack, or other existing mounting point, then light bars can be directly attached to the car without the need to install a mount.
    • If your exterior lighting system doesn't include any light-bars or other heavy equipment, then select this option to indicate that no mounting hardware is needed.

    • Self-tapping screws can allow for a mounting system to be installed quickly and affordably. However, this method may not be as resilient, and may not be practical for heavier light bars, or mounting positions that are more exposed to wind.

    • Bolts are an extremely durable and reliable way of installing a light-bar mount. However, it will significantly increase installation time.
    • If you're looking for a mounting method that can withstand a harsh beating without failing, bolts are the way to go.

Features

Since your system is assembled and installed custom by V0LT, you can chose to have additional custom features included with your system.

    • An ignition switch will prevent your lighting system from operating while the car is turned off. To use your lighting system, the car will have to be in either auxiliary mode, or with the engine running.
    • This can prevent you from accidentally leaving your lighting system on and draining your car battery. However, under normal circumstances, it makes more sense to just turn the lighting system off when the car is not in use.

    • A kill-switch is a switch that cuts power to your exterior lighting system, overriding other control mechanisms.
    • Kill-switches are often placed in the engine bay to prevent exterior lighting from behind used on public roads where it is illegal to do so, while still making it easy to re-activate once a destination has been reached.

    • If you plan to have multiple aftermarket electronics to your car, and/or want to make future modifications easier, a fuse panel is a great way to do so.
    • A fuse panel keeps wiring organized, and allows multiple devices to be powered off of a single connection to the vehicle's electrical system.