Lightbar... Long Trip

[JRHPNG]

Off on a long drive next month, 2500km over 5 days with around 16hrs of night driving, picked this up today to give us some more light on the road, mounts behind the numberplate and comes complete with everything. Only 99 nzd... 

If anyone's interested I'll post some night shots of how bright it is.

[Jocko]

Looks great. We are lucky to be able to use main beam here in the UK! A unit like that would be illegal here, except for off road use.

[culzean]

I agree,  would be illegal in UK,  best we can do is fit classiccarleds H4 LED bulbs.... plenty of good light on main beam.. ( now I know someone is gonna say that technically they are illegal for road use in UK,  but they pass the annual MOT test beam pattern OK ).

https://clubjazz.org/forum/index.php?topic=8738.msg75396#msg75396

[JRHPNG]

Looks great. We are lucky to be able to use main beam here in the UK! A unit like that would be illegal here, except for off road use.

For us here, so long as it only comes on when the high beam is active we are ok.

We are supposed to have 60/55 bulbs here but a lot of people run 90/55 for extra brightness on high beam.

[Jocko]

Back in the day I had spots on my FIAT 126.



Getting them in from the edge of the car, to satisfy the legal requirement, was the problem on such a small car.
They were separately switched, but controlled by the main beam, so they went out on dip, without having to fumble for the switch. I am sure the top speed dropped when you switched them on. The small engine struggled to overcome the photon energy!!!!!

[culzean]

I fitted a pair of driving spot-lights on my first Civic ( the lights were a bit pants ) - they went on and off with main beam.

[Hobo]

I fitted a pair of spots years ago on my Saab 99 Turbo, the beam pattern was pants without them for what was then a relatively fast sports saloon, they were switched on with the main beam.

[Jocko]

The ones I had were superb but there again the OEM headlights, 45/40 IIRC were rubbish. A candle in a paper bag would have been a big improvement. One thing I remember about the spotlights were they would pick up reflective road signs from about 2 miles away!

[Steve1962]

Back in the day I had spots on my FIAT 126.



Getting them in from the edge of the car, to satisfy the legal requirement, was the problem on such a small car.
They were separately switched, but controlled by the main beam, so they went out on dip, without having to fumble for the switch. I am sure the top speed dropped when you switched them on. The small engine struggled to overcome the photon energy!!!!!

I had one of those for a couple of years in the late 80's - fun little car!!

Steve

[Steve1962]

I agree,  would be illegal in UK,  best we can do is fit classiccarleds H4 LED bulbs.... plenty of good light on main beam.. ( now I know someone is gonna say that technically they are illegal for road use in UK,  but they pass the annual MOT test beam pattern OK ).

https://clubjazz.org/forum/index.php?topic=8738.msg75396#msg75396

I can vouch for these - excellent product!!

Steve

[JRHPNG]

Test fitted the lightbar today, looks good and mounts well.

[Jocko]

Looks good. How does it function?