The annual SEMA Present is all concerning the automotive aftermarket, and I’ve been masking the present for over a decade now. For 2024, I scoured the two,400 distributors unfold out over 1.2 million sq. ft of exhibit area to search out the really new and funky merchandise that you may want in your subsequent vehicle-based journey.
With round 160,000 individuals from 140 international locations in attendance, I pushed by way of shoulder-to-shoulder crowds each day on the present to search out the products. Being one of many largest commerce reveals on this planet and the biggest automotive present, with about 1,400 automobiles on show this yr, I walked many, many miles this week.
5 Prime Merchandise: SEMA 2024 Finest in Present
Listed below are my prime 5 finest in present product picks from The SEMA Present 2024.
(You too can take a look at my finest in present product picks for: SEMA 2023, SEMA 2022, SEMA 2021, and SEMA 2019.)
Kuat DEK Roof Rack
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Kuat continues to make handsome, sturdy, and modern automobile rack methods. It simply debuted the DEK roof rack system at SEMA 2024.
The DEK is a platform rack system that can be utilized on crossbars or by way of direct mounts — with Tacoma and 4Runner fitments first and extra quickly. What makes it stand out from the competitors is its customized modern and trendy extrusions with T-channels. This development ought to provide most power, versatile accent mounting, and scale back wind noise.
What caught most individuals’s consideration concerning the racks is the elective built-in off-road lighting system. Kuat labored with Diode Dynamics to combine lights and wiring into the entrance of the DEK rack. The setup options 5 Diode Dynamics C2 Professional LED Pods delivering over 10,000 lumens in a modern package deal. The lights are additionally switchable from amber to white, so you possibly can regulate them to your driving situations on the fly.
The DEK rack from Kuat will hit the market within the second quarter of 2025. Pricing will vary from about $900 for a base unlit rack, to over $2,000 for a lit, massive, and direct-mounted rack.
Cache Basecamp Pad 3.0
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Cache has been round since 2018 making truck tailgate pads for bike transport. At The SEMA Present 2024, it launched the following technology of its system, the Cache Basecamp Pad 3.0.
What makes the Cache Basecamp Pad actually stand out is its patented lock. It locks the pad to the tailgate and supplies an anchor level to lock your bikes or different gear to. Then there are the equipment, like cushioned seats and a cooler that turns the tailgate into a snug seat and storage system. Oh, and it’s product of burly supplies that ought to maintain up properly and likewise provide essentially the most safety to each the automobile and the bike.
The Basecamp Pad 3.0 will are available two sizes and be accessible within the spring 2025. Cache will provide a presale this December if you wish to get in early, and certain get a little bit of a reduction.
MSRP on the XL measurement is $270 and it’s $240 on the S measurement. The system, which incorporates the pad, two seats, and a cooler bag, will run you $370 for the XL and $340 for the S.
Warn ZEON XP 14-S Winch
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Warn continues to innovate and produce us high quality winches for our off-road journey automobiles. It simply debuted the brand new XP line of ZEON winches at SEMA 2024, which can substitute its ZEON Platinum lineup. The ZEON XP line is now the highest off-road efficiency line of winches at Warn.
ZEON XP now options each wired and wi-fi management, each an electrical and a guide clutch, and LED lighting. It’s supplied in artificial line solely and is inbuilt Oregon.
I’m giving this award particularly to the 14-S model of this winch, because it’s an all-new capability within the lineup, and an ideal complement to a lot of immediately’s full-size American vans.
The Warn ZEON XP 14-S will retail for $2,720 and be accessible December 12, 2024, together with the remainder of the XP lineup.
ARB Brushless Compressors
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The ARB Twin Onboard Compressor has been the go-to air system for off-road and overland vacationers for a really very long time now. Whereas its a high quality system, which shall be staying within the lineup, ARB has simply launched a brand new, even higher compressor line.
The brand new ARB Brushless Air Compressor lineup affords 50% extra airflow. That makes airing up enormous off-road tires a lot quicker, and much more handy when utilizing two- and four-way tire inflation methods.
ARB says its new brushless motor and related applied sciences in these compressors provide extra management over all of the parameters of operation, which permits for rather more airflow and longevity of the compressor.
The ARB Brushless Air Compressor Twin Onboard unit additionally features a very slick cam-lock-style, quick-release mount, in addition to all of the wiring wanted for set up.
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This new ARB Brushless Air Compressor lineup shall be accessible very early in 2025. Pricing within the U.S. will come it at $849 for the Twin Onboard and $469 for Single Onboard. The moveable untis will are available at $1,289 for the Twin and $799 for the Single.
Mopar ILLUMINAT3 Pivoting Lightbar Prototype
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Stellantis, the father or mother firm of Jeep, Ram, Mopar, and so forth., pushes innovation from inside. A method it does that’s the Starup Innovation Design Program that has its staff pitch new design concepts, with the winners getting a full yr to develop the product, enterprise case, and so forth. Cole Schaenzer was a North American winner of the competitors this yr for his ILLUMINAT3 Pivoting Lightbar idea.
The design now has two patents and is probably going coming to market quickly. It’s a lighting accent for Jeep Gladiator and Wrangler that goes over the entrance of the windscreen body and affords three adjustable TYRE LED lights. The middle gentle may be adjusted on one axis, however the two lights on the edges may be swiveled 360 levels on two axis.
The concept is which you can have an off-road driving gentle, ditch gentle, space gentle, and so forth. multi function setup. Simply attain out the window of the automobile, and you may regulate the facet lights to the place you want them at that second.
A secondary advantage of this technique is that it protects the A-pillars from tree department hits, and certain helps maintain the limbs off the windscreen a bit as properly.
