The majority of underbody kits that have been widely available tend to come with sets of strips of predetermined lengths that are “chained” to each other, one group intended for each side of a vehicle.
A lot of them are junk, but a few use decent quality strips. After installing the better version of these for long enough and being constantly frustrated with each strip still not always being the best length and the cables joining one strip to the next inevitably being to long or too short, and in generally not easily being able to place strips of the lengths we wanted where we wanted, we decided to start ordering controllers with separate wires to each individual strip. Problem(s) solved. We can now easily cut any or all of the strips (at the appropriate cut marks) to fit our needs without a crazy amount of work to try to then re-waterproof and re-create the connection to the next strip. Wires are always long enough and much easier to either hide extra or cut and solder. And if someone decides they want this cart to chase from front to middle and from back to middle (for example) it’s not only possible when it wasn’t, it’s easy. Any strip can go anywhere, at any length and flow in any direction desired. The number one comment we get from installers is that our kits are so much better and easier to install than what they are used to. We hear that more than twice as much as any other feedback.
