Reliable Trailer Lights?

[garyk]

Reliable trailer lights -- is there such a thing?

Our EasyLoader(Wesbar is the mfr.)lights lasted about 18 months; thoroughly corroded. Units require total replacement.

So has anyone found a brand/system that lasts, particularly with saltwater dunkings?

With the faulty-lights citation costing $109, almost any price for good lights would be a bargain.

Thanks for your input.

Gary

[Pete]

Wesbar lights, $19 each for left and right get my vote ... the bulbs are encased in a plastic bubble, the wires are very well sealed. You'll find them at West Marine. Replacement bulbs are $9, but I haven't needed one in 2 years of salt and fresh dunkings.

[FishinMission]

I don't know what kind they are..but I have them on my driftboat trailer....the whole unit is round...and completely sealed...when the bulb goes...and it's not very often...you just buy another whole unit and plug it in. You can get them at Trailer Parts at McLoughlin and Ochoco just north of Milwaukie.

Pete is right. Have the same light system on my trailer. Still cooking.

[SureSet]

I'm with Pete, the Westbar low profile lights with the capsules are the way to go.

Unfortuatly, my trailer (or the places I take it), don't let me get that kind of time out of the standard bulbs. I was maybe getting 500 miles and at $8-9 bucks ea, I started thinking about alterantives. I ended up taking my dremel and cutting the capsule off when one burned out, replacing the bulbs with the tougher Long Life bulbs and then silicon sealed the capsule back on. Now I'm getting more like 2-3,000 miles between replacements. I put quick connectors on the wires, keep one spare and just rotate through them.


SureSet

[boater]

i went to a truck stop and bought 2 of the "LED" lites, the are totaly sealed and never burn out, they were about 60 bucks a peice at that time about 8 years ago and still work like new, i got sick of replacing trailer lights, any big truck stop should have them, burns bro`s probly does. i am going to put them on my new trailer after these go **** up.

[Tinman]

Back in the days when I fished saltwater exclusively, I put the lights on a separate removable "light bar. The light bar was just a piece of 1x4, slightly wider than the boat transom. I put some bolts through the upper part of the boat transom, with a couple of inches of bolt thread projecting out. The light bar had holes to match the bolts, and I used wing nuts to hold it on.

The wiring between the car and the light bar just lies in the boat, secured in a few places to keep it from blowing around. At the launch ramp, it takes only a minute to spin the wing nuts off, remove the light bar and wiring, and stow it in the truck. That way, the lights never get wet.

I didn't invent this system, lots of the old-timers used it. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to attach the side running lights, but I've never been stopped for not having those.