Lightforce driving lights

The Ford Focus is a rather small car and 2x 240 Blitz will look a bit strange. I would suggest a small nudge bar and 170 Striker or 180 ABR HIDs. I don't know where you will fit 4 lamps but no problem we have stock.

Send me a photo of the mounting system and I will give you further advice but I think 4x 240mm lamps is not practical.

The Focus should already have good lighting and 1 set of extra lamps will be perfect. The 170's and 180's are both adjustable from pencil to wide beam for those roo's.

These are our new 180mm HIDs.

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Regards

Derek from ABR

If you headlights are not HID change them first, I can't see why you would want more than 2 driving lights, slowing down may be a better option.

There again a light bar might be the answer...



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Hey Damoo,

Firstly mate for what you want, disregard the Lightforce altogether. They are spots mate, you are after some spread, not narrow spot beams. And dont believe the claims of being able to unscrew light and go from spot to spread. Pure garbage, it just makes a mess of the light. Lightforce are great for long distance spot beams though.

If you were to fit LED lights mate then you will wanna go with Vision X, they are the best in LED lightbars.

Depending on your budget mate, it will depend on what lights i would recommend. But they would be a spread beam type light. There are some good value lights out there and then there are some crap high priced lights. For your car i would probably go for something around the 170mm-210mm size. And if you really wanted to fit 4 then you would have some serious light in front of you. As you dont really need the most heavy duty lights available, you could get away with some good cheap lights.

I reckon the Narva 175, Hella 1000 or the Nite Stalker 170 would fit the bill beautifully and all can be converted to HID if you wish in the future. The Hella and the Nite Stalkers would be my pick. Nite Stalkers are around $140 on ebay/supercheap and the Hellas about $220, but make sure you get the free form new style with H1 globe.

These lights outperform everything in the $200-$400/pair category. And with a HID kit go extremely well. If you went 4 of these lights try and get 3 spread and 1 spot, or at least 2 spread, 2 spot. And have the spot on the right handside of car as its best practice to have the spot beam shining down the road right in front of your eyes.

This is my own personal choice on my vehicle. I found the pencil beam was too narrow for my type of driving.



Regards

Derek from ABR

3 Things come to mind here. Firstly it is apparently illegal to retrofit HID bulbs into existing headlights unless they are auto leveling and have washers on them..

Also roof bar lights are illegal ON THE ROAD. In most states they are supposed to be covered and only used off road.

Lastly the height of them above the bonnet could get you into trouble as it interferes with the drivers view and once again in most states there are restrictions on impediments to drivers view.

EG no aerials with a diameter of more than 75mm, so I guess a pair of 240's above the bonnet line might get their attention.

Saw a thread a week or so ago where the gendarmes were hauling trucks up and giving tickets for stuff on the dashboard restricting view.

Navigators are another thing Only fools stick them at eye height on a windscreen.

My experience with Roos is that they seem to dive out close to the car anyway so seeing nothing for a K or so wont help if he dives out 100m away. Too late she cried.

LOL

One thing to keep in mind re: HID vs LED lightbar.

HID's are generally for long distance driving whereas LEDs are really good for spread. So for what you want I would think LEDs are the better option.

Incidently I have a pair of Nightstalker 180's on my GV - 1 spot 1 spread and would've preferred 2 spreads as my country driving tends to be at night in the hills.

Hi Damoo

I have a set of Lightforce 170's spot and flood on my bull bar and a Rigid 20inch light bar mounted on roof rack.
The lightforce show a great distance in front but the Leds light up your peripherals and for my money Led bar on a single roof rack might be something to look at.
But be sure that the spread is not directed at the bonnet.
Security of the lights bar from theft is another problem which is why mine is up so high.

Cheers Michael

Thanks for the replies guys, I didn't realise the 240s where so big, I just thought it had a bigger number than everything else means its "better" haha.

I don't want to convert the headlights to HIDs as its illegal here in Victoria, as my car isn't fitted with auto levelers and washers for the headlights, I like the setup on the Rally Focus just above, something like that would be epic.

Also thanks for clearing up spot lights against wide beams, I will go the widebeams.

With HID widebeam lights, would they be illegal, I don't want the wanky purple ones though, something usable. I'm OK with halogen lights, should I go for something with a H1 globe?

I use an awesome light in my headlights called Phillips Xtreme Power +80, I found they do make a big difference in the 2 cars I've fitted them in, they also make them in H1 so they would be fitted into the driving lights also if I go halogens.

If 4 is way too much (even in a smaller light?), I'm happy to go 2 really good ones :)

I think these are the ones we fit to the ambulances we build at work, they're only 55W Halogens, but it'd be like having two or 4 extra headlights wouldn't it?

http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catalogue.pl?flcmd=preview&flmaint=753

Thanks much for the advice, replies and suggestions.

Hi Damoo,

I like the 170 lightforce. For the price you get a good solid driving light. Sure you can get brighter and you pay for them but unless your scared of the dark, Theyll do you just fine.

cheers Wilko

Damoo,

I have the Lightforce 240's on our Prado. Originally I just had the clear covers and as mentioned above they're awesome down the road but bugger all light to the side. Then I put one combo cover on (mix of spot/spread) and this improved but then I put another combo cover one. The result now is a light I find hard to fault. The spot given out by the combo covers is still more than I need and the spread is great.

In comparison, I have 4 little lights on my Triton. A set of Nite Stalker 160's with a spot and spread and another pair that are both spreads (Don't know the brand). These 4 don't come close to the Lightforce ones.

For your Focus I would look at the Lightforce 170's (or 140's if they look too big) and put either 2 combo covers on as I have done, or one spot and one spread. In the 170 size you can get a pure spread cover not offered in the 240 size. These 2 options will probably throw a similar light.

When some cash comes to hand I'm going to ditch my 4 little ones and stick the 170's on.

Mark.

sorry if this has already been mentioned but I lost interest when everyone started going off track from your question :)

Lightforce are good but I would say these are an overkill for your car. Also to take into account is the way lightforce have their covers there is a bright light rim around the edges which is very annoying (not sure if newer models have fixed this).
OK if they are out of sight but I would guess you would see these lights on your car.

Cheers,

http://img37.imageshack.us/i/frontcar.jpg/

Theres the photo of the front of my Focus, see above the number plate, I'd like to mount either 2 or 4 170mm driving lights up there.

Oppinions?