need new spotties

Ensure offroad engineered lamp support, the kind bearing a rubberised washer system etc. Pretty obvious I guess, but some folk do come unstuck with some otherwise excellent lights really designed for soft stuff.

Trevor,

What type of hella's have you had problems with cause I've had rally 4000 for years without a drama. Are you talking about some of the smaller ones?

Cheers Matt.

Matt,

I have broke 3 mounts on a set of Ralleye 2000's. I still have the lights in the shed but the mounts are stuffed and at $25 - 30 per mount I think not much of them. Light themselves give out decent light, but mounts useless.

Cheers Trevor.

Trevor said........."For long straight roads you won't go past the lightforce for distance but not much side lighting."

My opinion is that Trevor is correct ....BUT if you purchase the transition lenses (or whatever they're called.........I mean the ones that difuse the light), they are much better.

I have recently changed the covers on my Blitz 240s over to the Crystal Blue type, and the one on the passenger's side is difused, whilst the driver's side one is the pencil beam one.

These Crystal Blue covers make the light a more "white" colour. Before doing this, they looked VERY yellow when compared to the brilliant white light put out by my new XenonOz HID headlights.

The crystal blue covers are available for the 170's and 140's too as far as i know.

Cheers

Roachie

We have Cibie Oscar SC - metal housing, solid mounts, seem durable. Wouldn't get them if you want max distance vision (long straight roads) but superb wide angle, great for windy mountain roads.

Cibie make these for their lights too. Maybe other manufacturers also.

Wayne

Do you use rubber mounts when bolting your lightforce spotties to the bullbar??
Our previous and current 4x4's have all had driving lights on them when purchased.
Ive never had to buy or replace spotties in the past, hence the question..

katherine

When you say Rubber mounts, do you mean rubber washers over the bolt and above the bull bar?

Katherine,

The Light Force lights have been on two vehicles now and have travelled most of Australia.
50,000klm in the last 12 months on the Troopie alone.
If you have ever driven in a Troopie you would know that all bumps are taken personally. The lights do get a good work out.

I have not used any type of dampening for the mounting of the lights, but I did have to make a bracket to get them behind the front of the bull bar.

Wayne

hahahahahaha

Great test.......hope that wasn't the ones he sold you though!!!!!!!!!! hahaha

Same demo , same result.

Bought em next day.

As confident as I was, I went for the new ones in the box. He probably used them for the previous demo. Gotta love a good salesman!!

Kind regards

PS like the water pumps on your tyres Bill. Did you get the missus to walk that for the kodak moment?

No mate, she was in the vehicle with me. Photo was taken by a mate of ours (member of our 4x4 club) who had already gone across. It is on the Birdsville Track last July.

BTW, I'm now onto my 2nd set of Lightforce 240s. Nothing wrong with the 1st set, except that some F_cking Mongrel decided he needed them more than I did and he flogged them during the night of 18th/19th June last year, while my mother was literally on her death-bed (passed away around 6am). Of course the scumbag wasn't to know that....but if I ever catch-up with him in Narrandera, I'll rip his bloody throat out with my bare hands.

Cheers mate

Roachie

I guess they're not thief proof and in my opinion about the only way these things stop working is if they are pinched. Sorry to hear about your mum.

Kind regards