WD Electronics

Hand signals will not get a side-by-side through a Utah safety inspection. WD Electronics, which builds turn signal kits in Sandy, says so plainly in its guide to the state's street-legal rules, and the list of what an inspector wants instead starts with electric signals at the front and rear. Side-by-side makers leave that equipment off, a 2024 case study on the company notes, and that gap is the business.

It started with a light bar. In 2016 the University of Utah's Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute profiled Aaron Hatch, an operations management student who wanted a light bar for his ATV that would not drain his wallet. He searched everywhere before building his own, and the profile says WD Electronics was born from that effort. He already had three dealers, and he told the institute he could not make his street-legal kits fast enough for the orders coming in.

WD says it has built turn signal kits and lighting for side-by-sides since 2013, and that it was the first company it knows of to put a real street-legal kit on one. That hedge is the company's own, and it is more honest than most firsts. What WD sells hardest is the install. Its machine-specific kits plug into the factory connectors, so nobody cuts into the harness. According to the company, the wiring stays exactly as it left the dealer.

The company says its kits are made in Sandy. A 2024 case study by InventoryWorks, the inventory app WD runs on Salesforce, says it builds all of its products at its Utah facility from nearly 1,000 raw material components, with kits put together from sub-assemblies of their own. Before the software, WD tracked it all in spreadsheets, which is a lot of rows for a blinker.

The newest piece is Signal Pro, a control module WD announced in August 2026. Its main trick is canceling the blinker after a turn, and the announcement describes the problem with the candor of someone who has done it. You turn onto a fire road and get distracted by the views, and the signal keeps flashing for the next five miles. Flash timing defaults to 40 seconds and can be reprogrammed to match local rules.

The warranty has one exception worth knowing. Kit components carry a limited lifetime warranty, but the LED lights are covered for one year. In August 2026 Utah Business ranked WD Electronics 23rd on its Fast 50, a list it builds from five years of revenue and the compound growth rate behind it.

Under the statute WD cites, a plated side-by-side in Utah can use roads posted up to 50 miles an hour, though never the interstate. For a rider in Sandy, that turns the drive to the trailhead into part of the ride.