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LOL, @Stan Galat....   I had one of those Jeeps, once!  Two, actually!  Kathy had a big '87 Grand Wagoneer with the wood sides, 4-doors, power everything, "Turbo-style wheels", four modes of wheel drive and a big, honkin' 360 V8.  

I put the biggest set of Hella rectangular fog lamps on it I could find 'cuz she was pulling a 2-horse trailer with it and sometimes had to drive home after a late ending of a horse show.  I also got a Hella 550 fog to use as a backup light - THAT was awesome!  Everyone should have one, especially today!

Later, I bought a '96 Grand Cherokee (with the puny in-line 6) but mounted 2 Hella 550 fogs and 2 550 driving lights on it, all wired to the hi/lo relay.  Those puppies could light up the entire Seapowet beach in Tiverton, RI.

American auto lighting is terrible.  Anyone who's driven in Europe or Australia will tell you that.  It was a miracle that they allowed HID lighting here, and even that in stock form isn't much better than a good pair of aftermarket H3 lights or H4 headlights.  My 80-ish watt H4's on the Speedster can easily keep up with the HID lights on my Rogue (for a helluva lot less money).

I wonder how many past accidents in America could have been avoided if people weren't over-driving their lights simply because they weren't bright enough or projected far enough out (or both).  This has been a pet peeve for me for decades (starting with 4 lights on the front of my Dune Buggy and 4 more on the roll bar in the 60's) but I finally realized that if you really want exceptional lighting on your car, buy some really good after market lights, properly install and aim them and Rave On!

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