How to Choose Ditch Lights for your Overlanding Vehicle

Ditch lights are awesome and relatively cheap modifications that make a huge difference for lighting for your Overlanding rig. They provide much more visibility than standard headlights and look sleeker than a full-size light bar. Choosing which ditch lights work best for you can be pretty difficult because there are tons of different options out there. We’ve covered some helpful information in order to help you make the right decision.

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Choosing White LED vs Amber LED

When choosing some LED ditch lights and light pods, the biggest choice you will have to make is whether to go with amber or white lighting because they both have different purposes.

In general, you would typically want amber lighting if you drive through rough conditions such as snow, rain, dust, etc. This is because amber lighting cuts through these conditions much better than white lighting.

If you don’t see these conditions often or are wanting in general better visibility in clear conditions, I would go with white ditch lights. I would also go with white if you plan to be using your ditch lights for external visibility such as working outside your vehicle at night because you can see a lot more clearly.

Mounting

When you get ditch lights, you will often need to find a place to mount them on your vehicle. Some popular locations are on roof racks, special mounting brackets on your hood, or where your existing fog lights are.

When choosing your ditch lights, you will want to make sure they fit where you are wanting to mount them or pick up a special mounting bracket for your specific vehicle. One of the most popular locations to mount ditch lights are on the hood so they offer the most visibility in the front of your vehicle so you can see where you are going.

Wiring

With most ditch lights, they come with wiring harnesses that you can either splice into existing wires, add a fuse, or even add a switch inside your vehicle for easy access to turning them off and on. Depending on how you want to wire them, there are tons of different options and ways to do it, and our partner Cali Raised LED, offers tons of different wiring for all of their LED ditch lights.