spotlights

Andrew it really depends on what sort of spotlights you want and need for the type of driving you do.

If you do a lot of 4WD off road, you need something really decent that will not break.

My personal choice is the Hella ones, because the quality is great, many of their lights are made in Australia or New Zealand and you can get anything for them in the way of spares at a reasonable price if you break a lens.

Check out the prices and availability and also your local auto electrician. If there is not much required to actually mount the lights, a local auto electrician if you buy the lights from him does them for $40.00 installation. The auto electricians know which lights are good and which lights break.

ANDREW,I've got IPF lights 8oo series i think.They arent cheap but are very tough & also have excellent performance.They use 130w globes as standard.One of the best spots i have owned.With any light wiring use the largest wire you can from batt to relay to light to avoid voltage drop & hence increase brightness. Hope this helps.

CHEERS MIKE

Andrew,
dunno what gauge it is, but use wire rated at 30A or better. The biggest gauge you can use that you can fit into the Yellow sized crimp connections. This should keep voltage drops at bay. Another hint, after stripping the wire, before putting it into the crimp, push the stripped wire into a tub of grease before the crimp. This ensures a reasonably long life from the crimped connections.

Cheers,

Dion.

Andrew,

Have found both Hella and Lightforce to be good, though none of their parts are cheap. The best investment for bush work is a set of clear covers to suit, stops most rocks and last for a couple of years. Currently running Hella 4000's on our wagon, best designed light I've ever bought, with light output to suit my failing eyesight. If I still enjoyed night driving, would invest in set of Hella Predators, or their equivalents. Just brilliant, but EXPENSIVE. See ya...

All electrical conections should be SOLDERED. Grease on elecctrical conections?What a recipe for disaster! Also for maximum voltage supply to all conections I always run a seperate earth wire back to a point near the battery-that way you can be sure of getting a good conection. Nick G

Im onto the Lightforce 240s for $356 a pair BRAND NEW IN BOXES and Not hot either!... usually around $380.

If I can sell 4 sets.. they will be $336 a pair... Complete ready to go!

Im in Melbourne, and the place Im getting them from is also in Melbourne..

a 4x4 mag recently tested lights and narva came up on top and at half the price of some narva ultima i think they were