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Hood hinge? the A- pillar brackets for spot lights?


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Yup cheapest I’ve seen is $135 for brackets only at autoanything. That’s a crazy price for that in my opinion.
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3 hours ago, Waterfowler41 said:


Yup cheapest I’ve seen is $135 for brackets only at autoanything. That’s a crazy price for that in my opinion.

Agreed. Seems like you could have a machine shop bend and paint your own custom bracket for less.

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Flat steel at a home improvement store and some time measuring, hammering, and drilling?  I get the convenience of something ready to go, but I can't justify that convenience at that price until the next powerball drawing at least :)

 

'Truck improvement projects' (I should trademark that now) are the best kind for me because of the fiddling and experimentation, though I do understand those folks where that's not their thing.  To me that bracket looks like $18 of materials from Home Depot that end up as a bracket for me and a gift for a friend or two.

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There is also this one by rough country that is similar if you are specifically looking for a license plate mount. Same lumen output.

http://www.roughcountry.com/universal-8in-led-license-plate-kit-7018c.html

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