The black leather covers are on as a legality more than anything else; seen in this photo: those are what the dealer left on when they were operating the lights.
The clear polycarbonate covers that go over the lamps are basically indestructible to rocks and stones and protect the glass. These are essentially the same type of light as Lightforce, totally vibration resistant & you can shoot them with a shot gun just the same and they would be fine.
Something that makes them a bit unique is they use Phillips xenophot bulbs (similar to what you would find in the dentist office overhead lamps)... which not only put out an amazing amount of light for the wattage, but also project it as an extremely wide spectrum of colors which makes the beam hot.
If you put your hand in front of the light a few feet it will actually heat your hand up quickly. Of course if you cover that beam the heat generated actually melted the glass on the front in addition to the polycarbonate covers.
When I bought them I hunted around a lot and got them for about $200 a light, they might be cheaper these days though.
They are pretty wild lights, better than anything else I have seen in real life yet. I am more than a little pissed off when I took the covers off to find them damaged like this.
The lights are wired to the ignition, plus it has a blue light inside that comes on if you turn them on... I can only assume when they were "test driving it" they thought the glowing blue switch was for the fog lights or something because they had to have been on for like an hour or more to do this kind of damage.
[quote name='Gaza' timestamp='1288573339' post='22307']
woooooow , I'd be pissed ....they buying you new ones?
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I am calling them tomorrow, but I seriously doubt they will own up to it.
