LED Replacement Defender headlights

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Originally Posted by Blade74

I've been running LED headlights for two years and never had an issue.
Just make sure you level them not to annoy anyone.
They generally have a fairly definite cutoff so not too hard to level them.
Trucklite phase 7 for me.
Cost around $600 a pair landed with shipping from memory.
I have an led lightbar in my bumper that comes on with high beam. Amazing lighting when I switch on high beam.

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Same, I have the trucklite phase 7, had the US straight beam ones which do not break any ADR rules that I found, it states they can't point to the right which they don't. One of them failed, and the truck-lite rep in oz swapped them out for me for OZ approved ones that are definitely ADR approved, has the cert and all. There was a small charge for the upgrade of the non faulty light but was fair, really happy with them, been pulled over in a few booze tests and the police never mentioned them.

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Safety/Veh...tions.aspx#hid

The Queensland Department of Transport website says HID replacements are not permitted for several reasons. I couldn't find a reference to LEDs but if HIDs are not permitted then it seems unlikely LEDs would be OK.
Are there insurance issues if a vehicle is running unapproved headlights?

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When I did Cape York a couple of years ago, every fuel tanker I saw in Queensland had LED head lights, JW Speaker ones.

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Bought some trucklite phase 7's from the UK, they are marked as ADR compliant and do dip left. Very happy with them, also paid for the looms so on side lights you also have two small leds in each headlight, look with the DRL's in the bumper too.

I looked up lights tonight on the way home from work. Seems like Narva have something to do with Trucklite, and have ADR approved 7" lights. Do a Search on "Narva 72102"

I got this as a price guide

Anyone for a group buy. Not necessarily that site?

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Originally Posted by karlz

I looked up lights tonight on the way home from work. Seems like Narva have something to do with Trucklite, and have ADR approved 7" lights. Do a Search on "Narva 72102"

I got this as a price guide

Anyone for a group buy. Not necessarily that site?

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Hi,
Yes, definitely very interested.
Hobart address

Cheers

Created group buy thread Narva 72102 Trucklite

One thing I found out when talking to the Truck-Lite rep was that they had just bought Rigid Industries, so looks like they are spreading their wings and wont be just "truck Lights" they are selling, although it was hard to find a retailer of their lights in OZ when I needed my warranty replacement, hence the Rep sorted them out for me direct.

I know there are HID/LED lights out there marked as ADR-compliant, but do they comply with this (from the Queensland Department of Transport website):


Can I replace my vehicle's headlight with High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps?

Retro-fitting High Intensity Gas-Discharge (HID) headlight assemblies to vehicles not originally offered with the technology is generally not permissible as they do not comply with the Australian Design Rules in the following ways:

• No headlight self-levelling device is fitted
• No self-cleaning function is fitted
• The design of the headlamp reflector is not compatible with the bulb (the light is not focused correctly)

So, for example, does this mean they do not comply unless they have self-levelling? As I read it ( and I certainly could be wrong) you can't just pull out a standard light and screw in a replacement and be compliant - is that right or wrong?

As far as I know they need to be self levelling. Our VWs have factory xenon headlights and they have self levelling and washers.