When they say a slow boat from China, they weren't kidding, it took close to 3 months to get these and shipping was expensive. To be fair, that was the estimated delivery when I ordered them. I'm not sure who actually delivered them as they were left on my porch, I found them in the morning. They arrived with a very distressed box; I took pictures as I suspected they were damaged. Which to my surprise only one of the four sections was broken.
I’ve been in communication with AliExpress about getting a replacement for about 10 weeks now. There isn’t any real customer service or sense of making this right. Apparently after they have your money they don’t really care.
Seeing I’m kind of stuck with these at this point and I’m doubting, they will ever send a replacement.
, they weren’t packaged very well and came with zero instructions. But Google came thru with a decent install video:
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Overall, they work and look great, I would say the lights are very good quality. Installation took about 3 hrs., as there was a lot of dis-assembled to get to the center sections. It’s not difficult, just time consuming.
If I were to do it again, I’d guess next time I could shave an hour off the total time. Watching the video shows an adapter for the signal lights, the kit didn’t come with it, but it two simple vampire clips worked fantastic once I used the volt meter to find which two wires were the signals.
I’ll never buy anything from AliExpress again, nor will I recommend them. I do hope some other vendor offers these lights; they are very nice. I did see them listed on eBay but they were almost $1K more that I paid, which was $755 total.
Sorry for the lousy pictures my wife isn’t home and I tried to run about to catch the lights turning on, they do work as advertised.
I wish you could post a video of the new lights. I tried a few months ago and it didn't work on this website. If you get a chance, try to post some pictures after dark. They will show up much better. I have watched the videos of them and think they are very, very neat product. Didn't sound like the install was too bad. I have considered them but thanks to your honest posts about your experience with your order I didn't pull the trigger. But I still think they are very a cool modification on our Vensa's.
