That can vary.
Not all rock crawling is the same.
Crawling in Moab on smooth sand stone is a totally different thing than crawling over water smoothed boulders in an old river bed and both are different from crawling in Johnson Valley on jagged volcanic rock and sharp basalt.
Also the weather...
Do you run a charge wire to the Bronco while towing?
Don't let the Bronco's battery voltage get too low or it will drop out of tow mode and destroy the transmission.
Yet those lights with the DOT numbers on them somehow mange to last a LOT longer then 2 YEARS.
Seems you guys are the ones who should do more research.
Glad you had a safe trip but the Rangers and locals know the trails so it's best to heed their advice.
All too often things go sideways when a trail is taken by a vehicle that really shouldn't be on it.
Being so close to the edge it would have only required the ground to give way in one spot...
Because words have meanings.
Which is why the industry uses "compliant" instead of saying lights are DOT approved.
Compliant is a VERY ambiguous term. Which could mean as little as that the light contains the required running, brake and back up lights the law requires. While glossing over...
Then why not stamp the lights with the standard like the OEMs do?
Because possibly there are very specific tests that have to be passed in order to legally apply the markings? Or a specific testing facility has to do the certification?
Something that "compliant" lights don't have?
And...
Not true at all
And that's based on my 40 plus years as a 4wheeler. Dirt forest service roads, Hammer Trails, the Mint 400 and everything in between.
Often the locker prevents a person having to force their vehicle up or over an obstacle that with even just a rear locker they could have...