Light Up Your Night

hi all.
my ute has two lightforse on the five poster, three big narvers on the sports bar, yes they light up the night but I still hit two roos on my last trip to cook town and back from wollongong, also I have four shoo roos fitted, oh yes I get called a wanker all the time and yes I go to as many ute shows as possible, but its like water of a ducks back different strokes for different folks cheers bill.

Crackles
be nice.ive two sets of lights on bull bar.for highways night driving....have them set up....so there's little i cant see.....and some of the lonely roads.i get on at night ....prefer to have "Wank factor". and see as much.and not hit anything big ...(touch wood.)..........for the next Q...the lights on roof are only for bush driving

Bundy

The point I was hoping to make is that mounting lots of lights that can be vunerable to damage, obscure vision, block air flow to the engine & reflect light back into the cab/onto the bonnat is not necesary. Upgraded original globes & HID driving lights using as little as 15 amps can put out the same amount of light as a row of 100W halogen lamps pulling 50 amps.
For examples of Wank Factor in lighting one needs look no further than a ute muster ;-)
Cheers Craig............

I have 4 Lightforce 170's mounted at the back of the cab section of my dual cab patrol. They are only used on really remote stretches of highway or doing dirt tracks (like when we had to go between venues at the OBC last year for example). The roof lights project light at a much different angle to the 2 x 240 XGT/HIDs I have on the bullbar......

When I had my last Patrol (the 4.2TD with the well-documented "over-warming" issues), I tried mounting the 2 big Lightforce 240s on the TOP of the bullbar for a while to try to keep the radiator as unobstructed as possible. Having the lights up there did take a bit of getting used to plus I did have to put black leccy tape around the outer edge of the lense to stop the reflection being a nuisance. But overall, the light was better angled and I got used to having them in front of me all the time. It didn't seem to help the cooling system at all, so they were put back down where they were intended to live, so that people wouldn't call me a waannker all the time.

I'm not sure what people think now when they see the 4 lights up at the back of the roof..... but so far nobody has called me a wannker, so either they don't care or whatever..... hahahahaha

Roachie

I must be one of the w....rs? If I had the money, I would go and shell out 2 grand on a nice set of HID spots and have them mounted to the bullbar. But because I am not made of money and I have had these lights sitting in the shed from cars gone by, I have mounted them all over the place (as in my rig pic) and when I am out in roo country they do make a big difference. I am out in roo country a lot by the way.

I would consider pretty much the whole of the NT to be "roo country" and as Doug is up that way, I presume the photo is from up there too and fairly par for the course????

Just my thoughts.
Cheers, Trevor.

I'm with you on this one Craig.

I can see more then enough with the Hella HID's and have never had a problem of too little light.

Sure do it if you have a purpose for them..like long distance drivers but please don't do it for the COOL factor or because the racing guys do it.

Think I might fit 12 lights on my 4X4 because one day I might need them. LOL

People say they can's afford HID's.....RUBBISH......can't see how two lightforces with a HID kits can be dearer then 6 standard Lightforces (Not having a go at you Bill).

Years ago when we were rallying people would bolt there lights on for daylight stages, we kept on asking then WHY...hit something and you have lost them, we only bolted ours on for night stages.

Nothing worse then seeing a 4wd with all the bells and whistles getting around the city when the only off roading it's done is in their driveway at home.

You have to laugh at them!

I do tend to agree with Craig and Richard..... and I must admit I was prompted to fit my roof lights after seeing how much difference they make on the comp trucks.

I have the outer 2 roof lights angled to their respective side slightly so that I get good forewarning of impending roo incursions from the side of the road.

It is also true (although not many of us 4 wd'ers will admit it), that we don't really need to see 3 klicks down the road at night. If we were driving at 200k/h this might be a different story, but in reality we only need to see forward by about 500 to 800 meters. IMHO the side-lighting is probably much more important than overall distance of the lights.

For this reason I am considering selling my XGT HIDs and placing 2 of the 170s on the bullbar, leaving the 2 outer roof lights in place to do the business of lighting up the sides of the road. Note these are only slightly angled, not 45 degrees or anywhere near it.

Roachie

I gave up with driving lights years ago, that many people on the road these days you only get to use high beem for a few seconds before you have to dip them, may as well drive around on low beem all the time, even driving at night too much of a worry with roos on the road have to drive that slow so you dont hit them may as weel be on low beem.

Driving around at Night....what are you mad Michael? One should be sitting in front of the fire clutching a refreshing beverage and spinning travel stories lol!

Saw a rig at Brown Davis where the guy had the four roof top lights mounted on a bar that swivelled hydraulicly to a position above the roof. When in the city, they simply swung down to be below the cab roof again. Very custom and very expensive I'd imagine.

Cheers Mick