HELLA 500FF Series Driving Lamp Kit, Multi

So, I did my research before buying these things, so I had a little list of expectations when I went to use them for the first time. These lights are very good and actually performed better than I expected, although not as good as they could be.

Lets start with shipping and packaging first. Shipping to me, felt like it was a day late, but Amazon actually expected it to be delivered on the day it was delivered, to I can’t complain too much. Im used to deliveries showing up early, so this was a little surprising to me, but again, it wasn’t actually late. The shipping box these lights come in are twice the size of the Hella box. I guess that is meant for vehicles planning to use a four-light set-up for offroading and need two sets of these lights. Regardless, I feel like they could have shipped in a smaller box for my one set, but again, not a complaint. Just an observation.

The setup was pretty painless. The most frustrating part of the entire setup was trying to find a way to mount these lights on my ’03 Subaru Legacy without drilling into the bumper. The wiring harness was very simple and probably could’ve been done without the use of the “instructions”, which are horrible anyway. They give you a general diagram, and the text says “run leads”, which is too general, and not helpful at all unless you look at the diagram. Yes, the colors are mentioned in the diagram, but if you are new to wiring, it is a lot of unnecessary piecing together to understand it.

*Also, side note while im talking about wiring – When you install these lights, DO NOT attach the ground wires to your negative battery terminal. You’ll most likely blow a fuse, especially if you have your lights on when you start your car. There are probably some of you who have this set-up and it works just fine, but I strongly advise new buyers to ground to the chassis. I did and popped my chassis a little already, which is good, because I would’ve blown a fuse if I were hooked into my negative terminal.

Back to set-up. They provide more wire than you need, except in the 12v red wire, which I had to add my own length, but no big deal. It’s in part to me mounting the relay on my passenger side. I also wired my lights without a switch directly into the high beams (by connecting the yellow cable that was supposed to go to the switch directly to my high beam wire in my passenger side light) and it works without flaw.

Actually adjusting the lights is pretty painless. Just some nuts and bolts. The lights stay pretty tight, but can still be moved with quite a bit of force. This is a plus for me because I like to adjust my lights on the road so I can get the perfect beam to suit me. The lights themself are the Hella H3 standard bulbs. They are yellowish and a little underwhelming, but im sure replacing them with Silverstar bulbs will fix that problem right away.

My only concern is one of the lights fogged up when it got extremely humid, so the seal wasn’t completely perfect, but its alright. It cleared up, and the other light was fine. And it was obnoxiously humid. I might change the seal in it one day, but im not that worried at the moment. Overall, great lights!

Been a Hella customer for 25 years. Quality of products are still the same high caliber after 25 years. I recently bought a Polaris General 4 and have been setting it up for my driving style. Needed additional lighting for nighttime trail riding. Decided to mount these on ther lower A-arms at the base of windshield. I proactivly bought the following mount in anticipation of these lights: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G2GQPFG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Delivery of the lights took all but 2 days. Very impressed with packaging, simplicity of included hardware, quality of hardware (included Nylock nuts) etc. The lights themselvs are good quality aluminum. Perfect size at 6″ and comes with sleek black stone shields. Initially, I was hoping for the white ones for an old school throwback look but once I saw the black shiny finish, I knew it was going to look great.
I casually started putting everything together at the breakfast table while while babysitting my neice and nephew. Didnt want to take away any QT with the kids so I had them find the parts for me as I assembled the mounts. The A-arm mounts were lying around so I proactivly mounted those to the lights too. So far: 10 min invested.
Kids and I headed down to the garage and mounting the lights to the A-arms took about 5 minutes. Things were going so smoothly, I sent my niece back upstairs to grab the harness. When she arrived back down to the garage, she had the harness but left the instructions upstairs. No instructions needed. This is straight forward with bomb proof QD connections everywhere. Only 2 wires to hook up to + and – with ring connections already crimpped on and heat shrinked. My Polaris General has a busbar with 6 ports. I was able to bypass using up a port and mounted the rings righht to the main + and -. Flick the swithch and kids cheered! Super bright LED’s worked. This is a 3 way switch so if you flip it all the way down, the main LEDs go out and a small accent LED comes on giving just enough light to cut the dark for trailside repairs/cocktails/p-break etc. This was a nice unexpected modern feature. Time for wiring install: 10 minutes.
25 minutes total, casual install involving a 5 year old and an 8 year old without instructions. Seriously, a chimp could install these lights with successful results.
I couldnt be happier. These are not $500 pencil beams. These are modern driving lights thatcast the same color as my Polasis’s LED headlights but illuminate 2 – 3x as much and certainly wash over the periphels of the trail.
Couldnt be happier with fit, function and expected quality. There’s cheaper lights out there and certainly more expensive ones. For $135, it’s not going to break the bank, your getting a quality name brand kit with a warranty. I’d pay $60 for the harness alone. It’s that good.

I would highly recommend this wiring kit for ANY aux light install. Much better and easier to wire than the included wiring kit that comes with Hellas.

O facho de luz é bem definido na horizontal, não cega quem vem no sentido contrário. Ótima iluminação.

These lights are great. But do yourself a favor and buy a “light bar wiring harness” the wiring kit they send is a joke it wants you to splice into the vehicles high beams and wire lengths are way to short. You don’t have to buy another wire harness but it saves a lot more time and head ache and in my application i couldn’t tie into the high beams because my high beams didn’t work witch is the reason I was adding the lights in the first place. Aside from the junk wiring hardware the lights are nice and bright and look great