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5/23/2019 1:25pm
I Recently just completed building a Baja/ desert bike for the upcoming 500 and had quite the negative experience with Baja designs... purchased a dual XL Pro light set (mounts/lights/ all ready pre-wired to a set of switches) l,and upon installation discovered one didn’t function ( ok no big deal things happen). This occurred last Thursday May 16... So I contact them; explain what’s happening... to which they say, “ya sounds like you have a faulty light and it needs to be sent back for repair...” I explain to them this bike is racing the 500 can you guarantee me a date these will be done by? Their response was, “well by the time we send you the return label you won’t be able to ship them out until Friday...” I think ok no big deal should be plenty of time... then I ask them can you give me a turn around time or return date? they reply with “well maybe towards the end of next week”... I then reiterated the fact that this bike had to leave in roughly 12 days and I really don’t want to be installing a set of lights the Day before... same deal no sense of urgency( guy just says well I don’t know what else to tell you)... so I decide forget it they’re only 2 hrs from me I’ll drive them down... I drive the lights down, they instantly test them and say ya the one light doesn’t work but it’s due to the wiring not the light... I say ok so can we just swap them for a working set the guy goes no we have to repair these, I say ok as long as you can get them back to me relatively soon... he said should be no problem And to except them delivered to me by Tuesday at the latest... So Tuesday evening rolls around and all the deliveries for the day had been made to me, I decide to contact Baja designs again and they say “oh our wiring technician was out yesterday, but your lights were shipped this afternoon”... I think cool! say thanks, and go on my day... I received the lights today May 22 and plug them in they work; at this point I’m thrilled... so I go about finishing installation... this is where things go bad again... none of the crimp connections were tight the wires fell right out of them, and the main ground for the lights was half crimped together with the worst butt-connector I have ever seen in my life... one connection was soldered (and poorly at that), the wire that feeds the dimmer switch (not a very important wire)... so naturally, I had to rewire and solder the entire setup not a big deal it’s only a few wires... But what I can’t stop thinking about is the lack of quality control, I had to wait an extra day because their “wiring technician” was out and this is the return results? You pride yourself on building lights for Baja, but the product they delivered was so subpar it’s actually dangerous... sorry for the long rant not normally one to do this but I felt this is something that needs to be addressed... 



I say give these guys a try next time if you're looking at lighting a bike in the future. They have good product too.
www.taskracing.com
Good luck in the 500, it's a mother!
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They r hired help being told what to do and make sure you get it down quickly. Doesn’t surprise me at all to see the shoddy craftsmanship. Considering the circumstances they should have sent you out a new set, one that worked
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We use them in direct burial applications inside grease filled housings. That's another option, but I imagine it'd be ugly. Also these make for a quick check when testing where a failure may be. Just a thought. Sorry about your Baja troubles.
That butt splice looks like it was made of aluminum foil.
No doubt the crimps were done with the wrong die or a weak hand. Surprised they are not also soldered considering the intended usage.
Looks like tooling operator error and poor material selection for the splice.
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Proper crimp:
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