HELLA 005750941 500FF Series Driving Lamp Kit, Multi, 6"

These lights rock! Very bright output makes a huge difference at night, without the need for high cost other brand lights. Use them around town when I am alone on the road, and they work just great. Do not see a need to go with higher wattage or more costly options. When you install, take your time. The relay it comes with has different numbering on it than normal but has a chart on the side to give you the standard relay post numbers. No idea why it is like that but no big deal. Also recommend you use some heavier guage wires for the positive and negative runs to the battery and fuse box. Also buy a in line fuse for the positive lead to the battery. The kit comes with an inline fuse for the switch to the fuse box only. Not hard to install other than the switch does not tell you what side is up so you can get the posts backward (I did) and have no power going to the relay. Did some testing and found I had the switch upside down and the positive and negative backwards on the back of it. Flipped the wires around and viola, day light at night time. Wish I put these on my Jeep sooner, they help out the weak factory headlights a ton!

These are old school lights that I installed on my Land Rover Defender. They are a perfect replacement for the old lights that rusted away. The included wiring harness made the install seamless. The night is now lit up!

Ok, the 500FF driving lights are a good design in how it projects the light in front of the vehicle. I have been driving with Hellas in both my cars and 4x4s since 1985. They make damn good driving lights both on and off-road. I say that the 500s in stock form do a nice job in the city. However, if you do any off-roading and these are the only auxilary lights you have then I would recommend upgrading the bulbs to a 100W or 130W. Of course the modification will make them unusable in city driving. Personally I have adopted these as fog lights with crystal ion fog bulbs from PIAA. The PIAA bulbs and Hella 500s are a perfect match and work great in snow and dense fog. I don't like the conventional fog lights because the light pattern spreads too much light above the hood which is not needed. I have a FJ Cruiser with a grill guard where these puppies are mounted on the lower crossmember close to the ground. This is the best place for them. However, the pair of 500s are not enough to illuminate the back roads of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where I drive at night. If you want to get excellent illumination I HIGHLY recommend the Hella Rallye 4000s with the Hella 130W optional bulbs. I have these mounted above the 500s on the top crossmember of the brush guard (same height as the factory headlights) . When you turn the 4000s on at night I will guarantee you that you will see EVERYTHING in front of the vehicle to 1/2 mile!

So, I did my research before buying these things, so I had a little list of expectations when I went to use them for the first time. These lights are very good and actually performed better than I expected, although not as good as they could be. Lets start with shipping and packaging first. Shipping to me, felt like it was a day late, but Amazon actually expected it to be delivered on the day it was delivered, to I can't complain too much. Im used to deliveries showing up early, so this was a little surprising to me, but again, it wasn't actually late. The shipping box these lights come in are twice the size of the Hella box. I guess that is meant for vehicles planning to use a four-light set-up for offroading and need two sets of these lights. Regardless, I feel like they could have shipped in a smaller box for my one set, but again, not a complaint. Just an observation. The setup was pretty painless. The most frustrating part of the entire setup was trying to find a way to mount these lights on my '03 Subaru Legacy without drilling into the bumper. The wiring harness was very simple and probably could've been done without the use of the "instructions", which are horrible anyway. They give you a general diagram, and the text says "run leads", which is too general, and not helpful at all unless you look at the diagram. Yes, the colors are mentioned in the diagram, but if you are new to wiring, it is a lot of unnecessary piecing together to understand it. *Also, side note while im talking about wiring - When you install these lights, DO NOT attach the ground wires to your negative battery terminal. You'll most likely blow a fuse, especially if you have your lights on when you start your car. There are probably some of you who have this set-up and it works just fine, but I strongly advise new buyers to ground to the chassis. I did and popped my chassis a little already, which is good, because I would've blown a fuse if I were hooked into my negative terminal. Back to set-up. They provide more wire than you need, except in the 12v red wire, which I had to add my own length, but no big deal. It's in part to me mounting the relay on my passenger side. I also wired my lights without a switch directly into the high beams (by connecting the yellow cable that was supposed to go to the switch directly to my high beam wire in my passenger side light) and it works without flaw. Actually adjusting the lights is pretty painless. Just some nuts and bolts. The lights stay pretty tight, but can still be moved with quite a bit of force. This is a plus for me because I like to adjust my lights on the road so I can get the perfect beam to suit me. The lights themself are the Hella H3 standard bulbs. They are yellowish and a little underwhelming, but im sure replacing them with Silverstar bulbs will fix that problem right away. My only concern is one of the lights fogged up when it got extremely humid, so the seal wasn't completely perfect, but its alright. It cleared up, and the other light was fine. And it was obnoxiously humid. I might change the seal in it one day, but im not that worried at the moment. Overall, great lights!

These lights are great. But do yourself a favor and buy a “light bar wiring harness” the wiring kit they send is a joke it wants you to splice into the vehicles high beams and wire lengths are way to short. You don’t have to buy another wire harness but it saves a lot more time and head ache and in my application i couldn’t tie into the high beams because my high beams didn’t work witch is the reason I was adding the lights in the first place. Aside from the junk wiring hardware the lights are nice and bright and look great

Until I get some back woods photos, this one will have to do. It's bright as hell compared to my low beams and high beams. However, I'm up in arms about the Hella Off road Incandescent lights still providing better overall coverage. Installed on a 2015 Crosstrek. First photo shows, low beams with four Hella O/R Lights. Second photo shows, Auxbeam Spot Lights. Installation wasn't too complicated at all, a lot of customization went into mounting them to an SSD Front Rally Light Bar and running them inline with a switchboard. Took about 15 minutes to mount the lights down and run wires to a previously installed switchboard. I will say, the Hella 500FF's are a great addition to the car. It has an extremely wide spread, photos don't do it justice, they're the brightest Hella produces as an entry level offroad light. I wanted to go with the Black Magic series, but I'm glad I didn't. The BM series have the least amount of light output of the entry level offroad lights. I can opt for the black covers since they're on sale on Amazon as well, since that was mainly the selling point apart from the practicality of the bright 500FF's. If I needed more, which I don't, I'd buy Hella again! The drawback was the wiring kit and switch that it came with. Definitely not capable of running four lights on one kit of wires. The instructions were pretty much jargon, the switch wasn't that appealing. Understandable though, the wiring kit can work, as long as you can figure out the diagram they provide!

Wiring harness doesn't follow US electronics wiring code. I rewired wires so ground was black and +12Vdc was red. Also bought a different switch to replace the low quality switch profided in kit. I didn't particularily like the quallity of the stranded wire making up the harness. I laid out the lamps and wiring before install to make sure I understood the profided schematic which wasn't clearly drawn. Tested lights with harness, relay and a 12vdc battery to make sure everything switched on and worked like it should. I made sure the wires were at the proper length for hookup to where I placed my lights and on/off switch. I soldered all wire splices and used heat-shrink to cover them. I made note of the wire colors connected to the switch. If the switch wiring is wrong the relay doesn't function correctly and the lights won't work. I disconnected everything and headed for the truck! Installed wiring with no difficulties. Used tie wraps and black flexable wire covering for protected stable install. Made sure, I had a good ground connection to the Tacoma's frame and good 12v power connection directly to the battery. ( You can wire the lamps to come on with the headlights. So, one of the power connections would change, as noted in the instructions. I choose to control the lamps seperately. Make sure you decide what configuration you'll use, before the install...) After all was finished, I turned them on and aligned them. I took a ride in the evening to make sure that the lights were stable and didn't have any intermittant shaking or blinking problems, which they didn't. I had installed the lamps onto my heavy duty front bumper guard and look really great. The lamps are well made and good quality. The only problem was the wiring harness appeared fragile and required some inspection and rework. The directions weren't well written and the provided schematic needed some study to figure out the color code. If your patient enough to work out the minor kinks, this lamp kit is worth the effort for the price. NOTE: only three(3) stars because of the wire harness...

I installed these lights on a Saab 900SE next to a set of KC Pencil Beam driving lights. While they are not the quality of the KC lights, they are nevertheless reasonable quality and VERY good value for the money. Install was typical - no easier or harder than installing any other brand. Light output with 55 watt bulbs is EXCELLENT with a TIGHT, LONG RANGE BEAM. Not quite as focused as the KCs - but there isn't much in it -- and the light output seems as bright as the KCs with 100 watt bulbs. Because the housing is plastic I have not run the Hella's with 100 watt or 130 watt bulbs, I may give it a try during the winter. For me the wiring harness was a little light -- especially since I commonly use 100 watts bulbs, but so long as you use a relay to switch the lights and keep the runs short it will be more than adequate - but I'm an "overkill" type when it comes to wiring so I replaced the harnesses with #12 Tefzel (aircraft) wire for each light and everything is relay switched with very short cable runs. I would certainly buy them again - and will probably replace the KCs with the Hellas next time a rock takes them out. The Hella kit with two lights cost less than one replacement lens for the KC Summary - Excellent lighting, fair quality construction, great value for money.