Nissan Patrol rear Lights

Plenty of people have wasted the money... It also makes your car not meet ADRs.

but go for it

OffroadShop are now stocking Series I,II,III and the All New Series IV Taillights. Convert your dummy lights to full working lights. Please note some wiring is required which is a simple job for any handy man or your local Auto Electrician. Available from $425 from www.offroadshop.com.au

PandJ,

Just go to google and do a search on ' goodo4x4' and the guy who set up this website has a section on wiring up GU dummy taillights. Its a step-by-step guide and tells you what parts you need to buy, wiring diagrams etc. He reckons about $20 in parts. Ive got the globeholders from narva and am going to do it real soon so I'll let you know how i went.
Every GU owner should do this i reckon.

Good luck

Woody

I had mine done by auto electrican for about $200

He just wired from bumper lights up to main lights, and used orange globe in indicator position.

It works really well, and would recommend to all to do. When we put the brakes on, every one behind us knows we a applying the brakes.

Also good when towing a trailer, as body lights can be seen over trailer

Did mine not long after I purchased the Patrol..cost me about $ 25. Purchased some rubber blub holders from a auto electrics shop, same wattage bulbs as the ones in the bumper and some wire connectors.Used a soldering iron to cut the correct size holes in the dummies and held them inplace with selastic..been there now for 3 years and no problems.
Note...if you use a drill to cut the holes out you end up with tiny bits of plastic inside the lights which can be a bugger to get out.( as i found out doing the first one ).

Cannot see why it would be a problem with the ADR's truckster as you are still useing the original ones in the bumper....now i have extra reversing lights and two extra stop lights.

I think the Auto electricans are ripping you off if they charge you $200 to this as it only took me 30 to 40 mins to do and $ 25 in parts .

We added lights to the rear of our GQ, the two light units cost $60 and about an hours work to hook 'em up..... my mechanic sourced the light unit, I forget which brand but they were easy to find as I recall. Genuine Nissan originals, the reflector ones that don't have lights.... $180 each!

I think most of us would agree that the ADR is ridiculous. If 3 lights are safer, why not 4 ? Sure there might have been a visibility issue with the spare wheel but this would have been better fixed by adding the bumper lights as extras - not making them the sole (too low) lights. The dummy lights are a poor second especially at night. When upgrading my early GQ to a later model the above suggestions will come in handy . You could always just remove the globes for a Roadworthy.
You would be stiff to get pulled over and fined because you wished to have safer lighting
Rules gone mad.

WHY???

I am not certain on the ADR, but on the GQ patrol they use the bumper lights, however on the rebadged Mavrick there are no bumper lights. So if the ADR calls for lights in the bumper, how is it that the Mav is ADR approved with no bumper lights??