The Best Jeep® Wrangler Lights

Benefits of Upgrading Your Jeep Wrangler’s Lighting

From the factory, your Wrangler’s lighting is hardly sufficient for on-road use—even brand-new JLs come standard with dated, reflector-beam-style halogen headlights (come on, Jeep). There are several benefits to upgrading your Jeep Wrangler’s factory lighting, and in this section, we’re covering our top four.

Improved Visibility (on the Road)

So you’re driving down the road late at night—specifically, a dark road without street lamps. Even with your Wrangler’s high beams on, you’re still straining your eyes to see the road ahead—what gives? 

Upgraded lighting helps to remedy poor driver visibility, casting brighter, more effective output to the road ahead. Headlights, fog lights, and auxiliary lights all aid front-facing visibility, allowing a clear view of the road ahead for safe nighttime driving.

Improved Visibility (of your Jeep)

While a driver’s visibility of the road is crucial for safe driving, arguably more important is another driver’s visibility of your Jeep. Upgraded lighting, like marker lights, tail lights, and accessory lights, helps to define your Jeep’s precise location to other drivers, preventing collisions in low-light conditions and poor weather.

Improved Visibility (on the Trail)

Have you noticed a trend? The main upside of upgraded lighting is visibility, though in different scenarios. Yet another is visibility on the trail, which is just as vital, if not more so, than on-road visibility. 

Challenging trails can be dangerous in full sunlight, let alone in the dark. The lack of visibility can make washed-out roads, blind corners, and steep hills even more treacherous. Upgraded lighting helps remedy poor visibility on the trail, especially off-road lighting and exterior accessory lights. With a better view of obstacles and your Wrangler’s positioning over them, you’ll be safer and more confident on the trail. 

If you’re an avid overlander, upgraded lighting can also assist with setting up camp, providing the light necessary to pitch tents and unload gear.

Enhanced Styling

Lastly, upgraded lighting is an excellent way to improve your Jeep Wrangler’s styling. Aftermarket headlights, tail lights, and off-road lights enhance aesthetics even when turned off, while upgraded marker lights and LED illumination give your Jeep a modern, high-end appearance.

Types of Automotive Lighting

With benefits covered, let’s jump into the types of automotive lighting on the market. We’ll flesh out each light style’s purpose and our top products by category along the way.

Headlights

Headlights are one of, if not the most important, light source on your Jeep Wrangler. These lights provide most front-facing illumination, lighting up the road ahead for approximately 250–350 feet. Most Jeeps also utilize dual high/low beam headlights, which reuse the same bulb for high and low beam functionality. High beams project higher and further than low beams—approximately 350–500 feet.   

As aforementioned, most Jeep Wranglers—aside from high-end trim levels—utilize conventional halogen headlight bulbs—a reliable yet dated technology. By contrast, most aftermarket headlights utilize LED (light emitting diode) technology, which provides brighter, crisper, cooler-toned light while drawing far less energy. 

Additionally, most aftermarket headlights employ projector beams. Compared to factory-equipped reflector-bucket-style headlights, projector headlights focus light into a more concentrated and usable beam pattern for superior illumination. In short, aftermarket headlights are brighter, more efficient, and more concentrated than their factory counterparts. They also come in various lens colors (smoked vs. clear) and styles, enhancing aesthetics.

Top Jeep Wrangler Headlights: AlphaRex Black Nova Series LED Headlights

AlphaRex is an up-and-coming name in the headlight industry, specializing in premium-quality housings, innovative styling, and exceptional output via sealed LED projectors. The company’s Nova Series LED Headlights for the Jeep Wrangler are no exception, sporting quad-projectors, high-end Osram Oslon LED chips, LED DRL running lights, and sequential turn signals.  

AlphaRex Nova Series LED Headlights come in two stylish colors: Alpha Black and Black. Alpha Black headlights feature gloss black housings and smoked DRL lenses, while Black variants feature matte black housings and clear DRL lenses. Both colors include crystal-clear polycarbonate lenses for superior output and impact resistance. 

Features: 

• Durable housing with polycarbonate lens

• High-quality Osram Oslon LED technology

• Patented Ice Cube 3D LED projectors

• Switchback DRL and sequential turn signals

• Available in Alpha Black and Black versions

• SAE and DOT FMVSS108 compliant

• ISO certified

• Simple plug-and-play installation

• Limited 2-year warranty

Tail Lights

If headlights aren’t your Jeep Wrangler’s most crucial light source, tail lights are. These vital lights signal several actions to drivers at your rear, including running lights, brake lights, reverse lights, and turn signals. 

Each function is crucial to your and other drivers' safety. Accidents are inevitable if another driver can’t see you signaling or braking.

Aftermarket tail lights help to emphasize each signal, utilizing vibrant LED chips for brighter, crisper, and more visible output. Aftermarket tail lights also come in various styles and lens colors, enhancing your Jeep Wrangler’s exterior aesthetics.

Top Jeep Wrangler Tail Lights: Rugged Ridge® Jeep Flush Mount Tail Lights

Ditch your Wrangler’s protruding, damage-prone OE tail light housings for Rugged Ridge® Flush Mount Jeep Tail Lights. These ultra-flush, low-profile tail lights are the perfect addition to an off-road rig. They feature durable, injection-molded ABS housings that perfectly fit the contours of your Jeep’s tub. Oval, 12-LED tail light assemblies and bullet-style side indicators provide running, brake, and marker light functionality. 

Rugged Ridge Flush Mount Jeep Tail Lights offer a simple, bolt-on installation with plug-and-play connectors, making mounting a breeze. 

Features: 

• Sleek, functional design eliminates damage-prone OE tail light housings

• Trail-ready, injection-molded ABS construction

• Compatible with conventional and LED light packages

• Includes full-function 12-LED tail light assemblies, bullet-style side indicators, paintable low-profile housings, and plug-and-play wiring harness

• Limited 5-year warranty

Off-Road Lights (LED Bars, Cubes, and More)

Next, we have off-road lights, also called auxiliary lights. Off-road lights are a must-have for any off-roader, especially those who frequent dark, dimly-lit trails. These bright, versatile lights come in several shapes and sizes, including LED light bars, pods and cubes, and round lights—the latter two styles come in conventional halogen and LED configurations.  

Off-road lights also offer several beam patterns, typically accomplished through different lenses. For example, flood pattern lenses produce wide, diffused beams for work lights, spot lenses produce narrow, concentrated beams for long-distance viewing, and combo/driving lenses offer wide and concentrated patterns for up-close and long-distance viewing.

Off-road lights can be mounted anywhere on your Jeep and used for essentially any purpose. For example, LED cubes can serve as auxiliary fog lights when mounted to the front bumper, auxiliary reverse lights when mounted to the rear bumper, or ditch lights when mounted to the A-pillars. The possibilities are endless, and with LED lights' low electrical draw, you can run several off-road lights off your Wrangler’s factory charging system.

Top Jeep Wrangler LED Bar: Go Rhino® Xplor Bright Series 30" Double Row LED Light Bar

Dominate even the darkest, dimmest-lit trail with the Go Rhino® Xplor Bright Series 30” Double Row LED Light Bar. This premium LED light bar packs all the latest and greatest technology into a slim profile, including a robust cast aluminum housing with molded heat sinks, an impact-resistant polycarbonate lens, and high-end OSRAM LED chips. 

60 LED chips in a combination flood/spot pattern produce a blistering 11,400 lumens of output, transforming even the darkest night into daylight. The Go Rhino Xplor Bright Series 30” Double Row LED Light Bar is rated for 30,000 hours of service. It’s IP67 certified for even the harshest conditions, ensuring years of reliable service on your Wrangler. 

Features: 

• OSRAM LEDs rated for 30,000 hours

• Combo food/spot pattern

• IP67 rated

• High-pressure cast aluminum housing with heat sinks

• Stealthy black mounting hardware and brackets

• Impact-resistant polycarbonate lens

• Includes wiring harness with switch

• 5-year warranty

Top Jeep Wrangler LED Pods and Cubes: Baja Designs Squadron Sport LED Lights

When the going gets tough, the tough trust Baja Designs lighting—or something like that. Baja Designs is a leader in premium, American-made LED lighting, and the company’s entry-level Squadron Sport LED Lights are no exception. 

Hard-anodized aluminum housings, billet aluminum bezels, and hard-coated polycarbonate lenses ensure a product that’s as tough as it is functional. Beneath each lens, four premium LED chips offer 49,930 hours of service. Baja Designs Squadron Sport LED Lights are IP69K certified and IK10 compliant. All lenses and optics are interchangeable, ensuring a lifetime of service. 

Features: 

• Hard anodized aluminum housing

• Hard-coated polycarbonate lens

• Machined, billet-aluminum bezel

• Stainless steel hardware and bracket mounts

• Built-in overvoltage protection

• Replaceable lenses and optics

• 49,930-hour life expectancy

• Black powder-coated housing

• IP69K certified (Waterproof up to 9ft and pressure washable)

• IK10 compliant (Mechanical impact testing)

• For off-road use only

• USA-made

Fog Lights

Fog lights are another useful front-facing light engineered to cut through dust, rain, fog, and other inclement weather conditions due to their low positioning. Like factory Jeep Wrangler headlights, most JLs ship with halogen fog lights and reflector-bucket-style housings. 

Upgrading your Jeep’s fog lights to a direct-fit LED pod or LED projector immensely increases functionality, effectively doubling output and improving the beam pattern. Whether you’re looking for factory-style housings or fog-light-mounted LED cubes, we’ve got you covered.

Top Jeep Wrangler Fog Lights: Diode Dynamics SS3 LED Fog Lights

Diode Dynamics SS3 LED Fog Lights are a must-have for Jeep Wrangler owners who appreciate crisp, vibrant LED lighting. These direct-replacement, plug-and-play fog lights may mount to your Jeep’s bumper in the factory locations, but they’re far removed from their OE counterparts. 

Diode Dynamics SS3 lights feature robust extruded aluminum housings, polycarbonate lenses, and advanced TIR optics for high efficiency and focus. Diode Dynamics fog lights take a pair of standard SS3 lights and outfit them with a stylish, factory-inspired round bezel, plug-and-play connectors, and direct bolt-on mounts, making for a direct-fit replacement. 

If the immense output and easy installation aren’t enough, consider Diode Dynamics’ industry-leading 8-year warranty.  

Features: 

• Direct replacement for factory fog lamps

• SAE-compliant, road-legal light output

• Plug and play—no wiring modifications needed

• Advanced TIR optics provide high efficiency and focus

• Durable, powder-coated, extruded aluminum housing

• Stylish round bezel offers a factory-style appearance

• Sold as a complete kit

• USA-made

• 8-year warranty

Accessory Lighting

Lastly, we have accessory lighting. Accessory lighting includes marker lights, rock lights, light controllers, and any products that aren’t directly responsible for primary lighting or signaling. Upgrading accessory lighting can help to personalize your Jeep, improve its aesthetics, and bolster its functionality. 

Accessory lighting is the cherry on top of a perfect lighting package, adding personality and features.

Top Jeep Wrangler Rock Lights: Rugged Ridge® Rock Light Kit

The Rugged Ridge Rock Light Kit illuminates your Jeep’s immediate surroundings, undercarriage, and wheel wells. This kit includes everything necessary to install a rock light in each wheel well, including four LED rock lights, eight rubber mounts, and all required hardware. Rugged Ridge offers kits with and without a wiring harness. 

Unlike lesser-quality rock light kits, which include only the bare light housings with flying leads, Rugged Ridge rock lights include long leads with weather-tight connectors at the end. An integrated wiring hub ties each rock light into a central 12V power source and ground, making wiring a breeze. 

Features:

• Waterproof aluminum housings

• Matte black powder coat finish

• Impact-resistant polycarbonate lens

• Four LED chips per light

• Includes (4) rock lights, (4) curved mounts, (4) flat mounts, integrated wiring hub, and all necessary hardware

• Available with or without a wiring harness

• Weather-resistant connectors

• 5-year warranty

Top Jeep Wrangler Side Marker Lights: Oracle SideTrack LED Lights

Boost styling and other drivers’ visibility of your Jeep with Oracle SideTrack LED Lights—stylish, faux fender vents with integrated LEDs. Oracle SideTrack LED Lights include dual-function LEDs, including white convenience lights that illuminate when you unlock your Wrangler’s doors and amber LED lights that function as auxiliary turn signals. 

Oracle SideTrack LED Lights offer a simple peel-and-stick installation using the pre-installed 3M double-sided adhesive. Each SideTrack light includes a flying 3-wire lead—turn signal, footwell LED, and ground. Minor wiring is required. 

Features: 

• Includes passenger and driver-side Sidetrack modules

• Wiring connectors included

• High-output white LED convenience lights

• Amber LED turn signal indicators

• Ties into dome light circuit

• Three wires—turn signal, footwell LED, and ground

• Simple peel-and-stick installation

• 1-year warranty

Top Jeep Wrangler Light Controller: Go Rhino 8 Channel Switch Controller

Control all your Jeep Wrangler's accessory lights and off-road lights with the Go Rhino 8 Channel Switch Controller—a central hub for up to eight accessories. The Go Rhino 8 Channel Switch Controller is the perfect addition to any heavily modified ride, simplifying wiring for a clean, safe installation. 

Each switch panel features a fully protected 1200-watt input, a multi-function wiring harness with fuse and switch, an adjustable mounting bracket, and fully customizable button layouts and labels. Keep the main power junction box in your Jeep’s engine bay and run only a single wire into the cab—adding accessories is a breeze, and your Jeep’s engine bay will look cleaner than ever. 

Features: 

• Interchangeable button layout

• Customizable button labels

• Central on/off switch

• Adjustable mounting bracket

• Multi-function wire harness, fuse, and switch are included

• Fully protected 1200-watt input

• Fully potted and sealed electronics

• Bright LED backlight

• 5-year warranty