Mounting Roof Top Lights

Gday ,
I ran my cables from the motor, inside the cabin up under the door seals then straight outside straight onto the roof rack mount, the cable sits nicely around the top metal part of the door forming the shape around the metal. its fairly neat and not to much cable showing,

Clive

Door seals....... works a treat.

2 cables, one for each light ( lights are side mounted, like taxi's, and are switched separately), along with Coax for UHF,

No problems at all. I told the Auto electrician to simply drill through the roof, but he wouldn't.

Cheers

Wolfie

Mate,
I've run the cables for rear lights, and air horn solenoids + the air hose up the "A" pillar (outside the vehicle), hidden by the snorkel.
However, I recently decided to move my UHF antenna from the bullbar to the roof rack and decided to stick it out the passengers side door. I reckon I've done something different to other people, cos when it rains, water comes in and drops onto the passenger's seat. I'm thinking of drilling a hole through the "B" pillar and using a rubber grommet to pass the cable through and that will aleviate the need to rely on the rubber door seal to keep the water out. The same situation exists on the driver's door, where I have a GPS antenna cable going outside, but so far it hasn't leaked (smaller diameter cable though).

Roof top driving lights are, of course, illegal to use in most states.
But we all know that don't we.
Phil

Hi Tim,

I have my UHF antenna mounted on the roof rack. The installer ran the cable thru the firewall and up in front of the windscreen in the channel beside the windscreen on the drivers side and into the roof rack channel. This is of course on my Prado. Your car may be different but it looks OK on mine.

Cheers
Muddy 'doe

My jack was ex. plantations dept in vic, it has the 'rola' style roof racks and had two antennas fitted onto these in its govt spec. They ran the cable internally to the base of the b pillar then internally in the pillar and out through the rubber grommet/conduit between the pillar and the door ( where the power window etc. cables run) only mod to car was a small hole in the grommet. They then used some self adhesive aluminium cable retainers - about a centimetre square with a bendable tab in the centre to secure the cable to the pillar up to the roof racks. Don't know where they got the aluminium versions but i know elec suppliers have plastic versions with cable ties built in . Cant see a thing when the doors are closed and it seemed to work well.

Re roof lights - i suppose if you had an isolator switch (dummy?) under the bonnet to show the officer, and a hidden switch (internal) to actually isolate them then you should be sweet. As others said, if they switch off with the high beams then whats the prob ?? As with anything i guess if you use them sensibly then the risk is low.

Hope this helps, Brad