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. toes of exhibit area to seek out the actually new and funky merchandise that you may want in your subsequent vehicle-based journey.
With round 160,000 folks from 140 nations in attendance, I pushed by shoulder-to-shoulder crowds daily on the present to seek out the products. Being one of many largest commerce exhibits on this planet and the biggest automobile present, with about 1,400 automobiles on show this 12 months, I walked many, many miles this week.
5 Prime Merchandise: SEMA 2024 Greatest in Present
Listed below are my high 5 finest in present product picks from The SEMA Present 2024.
(You can too take a look at my finest in present product picks for: SEMA 2023, SEMA 2022, SEMA 2021, and SEMA 2019.)
Kuat DEK Roof Rack
Kuat continues to make handsome, sturdy, and progressive car rack techniques. 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 direct mounts — with Tacoma and 4Runner fitments first and extra quickly. What makes it stand out from the competitors is its customized smooth and classy extrusions with T-channels. This development ought to provide most energy, versatile accent mounting, and scale back wind noise.
What caught most individuals’s consideration concerning the racks is the optionally available 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 smooth package deal. The lights are additionally switchable from amber to white, so you possibly can alter 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
Cache has been round since 2018 making truck tailgate pads for bike transport. At The SEMA Present 2024, it launched the subsequent era 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 gives 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 comfortable seat and storage system. Oh, and it’s made from burly supplies that ought to maintain up nicely and likewise provide essentially the most safety to each the car and the bike.
The Basecamp Pad 3.0 will are available in two sizes and be obtainable 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 dimension is $270 and it’s $240 on the S dimension. 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
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 in-built 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 as we speak’s full-size American vans.
The Warn ZEON XP 14-S will retail for $2,720 and be obtainable December 12, 2024, together with the remainder of the XP lineup.
ARB Brushless Compressors
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 can 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 sooner, and much more handy when utilizing two- and four-way tire inflation techniques.
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 far 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.
This new ARB Brushless Air Compressor lineup can be obtainable 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 in at $1,289 for the Twin and $799 for the Single.
Mopar ILLUMINAT3 Pivoting Lightbar Prototype
Stellantis, the father or mother firm of Jeep, Ram, Mopar, and so on., pushes innovation from inside. A technique it does that’s the Starup Innovation Design Program that has its workers pitch new design concepts, with the winners getting a full 12 months to develop the product, enterprise case, and so on. Cole Schaenzer was a North American winner of the competitors this 12 months 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 thought is which you could have an off-road driving gentle, ditch gentle, space gentle, and so on. multi functional setup. Simply attain out the window of the car, and you’ll alter the facet lights to the place you want them at that second.
A secondary advantage of this method is that it protects the A-pillars from tree department hits, and certain helps preserve the limbs off the windscreen a bit as nicely.
In case you’re excited about becoming a member of the waitlist for this Jeep Efficiency Elements product, you possibly can add your electronic mail right here. At the moment, the MSRP is projected to be $2,195.
