H3stuff started as an idea back in 2022, I’ve been an H3 owner for about 8 years now… like nothing else.
When I first got this truck I loved everything about it, that of course grew into a love/hate situation but I still have it so what can I say.
One of the hate parts was the lighting, it was horrible I tried silverstars and other LED bulbs but even still the spread of light was just never great or concentrated on the road.
Maybe somewhere around 2018 or so I tried printing a 3D bracket from thingster and that was a bust for sure. Later that year a small company came out with a 3D printed headlight conversion bracket that would allow us to mount a 7” round headlight onto the H3, it wasn’t perfect but it seemed like a solution.
The first pair of adapters I bought broke during installation, the second about a week after installation but that’s all we had, so a little JB weld and it was a workable solution…
Not ideal for cold Wisconsin winters but workable with JB weld patches.
A few years went by and my H3, lovingly named Rex was in a fender bender that took out my grill and passenger side headlight to the degree that no JB weld could repair.
I tried to find another adapter bracket set on the market but for the next year or so was unsuccessful at getting them in my hands and so it was back to stock for me.
Driving at night again with the H3 I felt as if I was struggling to see on the backroads, and in the city I wondered if my headlights were even on, yes I had a 52” lightbar but that’s not always a solution.
I tried and tried to figure out how to get some better custom fitted headlights, and even fog lights but the options were all few and far between and most were 3D printed - no joy for me. Then I saw that other enthusiasts were having the same issue, we wanted a better modern solution for our older discontinued rigs.
After knocking the idea around and scouring the internets for old photos of brackets and looking at home-grown solutions in, 2024 I felt it was time to take action and just see what it would take to bring some headlight brackets back to the market. I shopped the idea around to several factories and the R&D cost plus first run… just wasn’t affordable, at all.
After weeks of shopping the idea around we found a smaller factory that was willing to work with us.
A few months later and the Hummer H3 headlight and Fog light adapters were a reality once again, it took a good bit of personal seed money and some bartering as well… but we made it happen. We didn’t want to spill the beans and tell the community that this was in the works too soon in case we couldn’t make it happen, and we didn’t want to do the pre-order model because many people have already had a bad experience with “some type” of preordering and non-deliverables.
I have to thank the amazing community for having our backs and for supporting this venture, we know there is some differencing in opinions in this space, but we thought the community deserved a solid dependable solution.
My H3 was the first and oh what a difference.. like putting in contact lenses or glasses on for the first time all over again.
Every run we take all the feedback from the community and try and perfect the little things now. On our last run we increased the metal and made the headlight brackets 25% thicker - they are robust, like the truck itself.
The fog light adapters…. 1 solid piece of aluminum, no give no bend. We had some feedback that they seemed a bit unpolished and unrefined, but to us they are simple, straight forward and utilitarian like the H3 was intended to be, they won’t break.
We strive to develop new parts as time goes on and to make our parts better and more useful by engaging with our customers on a personal level and modifying parts per consumer input and demand.
Hummers slogan is “Like nothing else” and we strive to uphold that as well.
Thank you all for your continued support.
