Driving lights

[SimmAus]

Moving more rural soon…what driving lights / spotties / light bars and fittings are you using?
Fitting to D4, no bull bar.

Pro’s / Con’s welcomed

[V8Ian]

https://www.fyrlyt.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wix_google_business_profile&utm_campaign=2204325476433342508

Grreat lights but the lens go milky.

[Patrick M]

Moving more rural soon…what driving lights / spotties / light bars and fittings are you using?
Fitting to D4, no bull bar.

Pro’s / Con’s welcomed

Have a very close look at the Stedi range and compare them with test results from the internet, you will be surprised.
Also stay aware of the fact that they are LED and as I found use less power and in my case I did not have to upgrade existing wiring.

[Saitch]

I have a D3 and find the headlights are more than sufficient for a sedate, night drive home through Skippy Land, with an occasional bovine thrown in.

I do have a Stedi light bar on the old Tojo, for obvious reasons. [biggrin] It has three facets. Both sides throw in their relative directions i.e. Left and Right and the centre section throws forward. It's not 'Spotlight' efficient, range wise but does light the road well.

In another post, I said that the only problem is that, when I go from 'High' to 'Low' beam, it's like the headlights have turned off altogether. [smilebigeye]

[Lionelgee]

I have a D3 and find the headlights are more than sufficient for a sedate, night drive home through Skippy Land, with an occasional bovine thrown in.

I do have a Stedi light bar on the old Tojo, for obvious reasons. [biggrin] It has three facets. Both sides throw in their relative directions i.e. Left and Right and the centre section throws forward. It's not 'Spotlight' efficient, range wise but does light the road well.

In another post, I said that the only problem is that, when I go from 'High' to 'Low' beam, it's like the headlights have turned off altogether. [smilebigeye]



Hello Saitch,

I just went to the Stedi Light Bar webpage (LED Light Bars STEDI™ - High Performance 4WD Lights (https://www.stedi.com.au/4x4-driving-lights/led-light-bars.html)) and prices vary from $89 up to not far off $900. What option did you choose for the Tojo and why?

Sorry for the thread hijack SimAus.

I have also been reading through the FYRLYT Driving light review (https://www.aulro.com/afvb/non-land-rover-technical-chat/275412-fyrlyt-driving-light-review.html) thread with quite some interest. The candidate for the lighting upgrade is a 1993 Defender 110 with a 200tdi. I doubt that it will mirror the standard headlight's lighting capacity of a Discovery 3-4! Snowy - the Defender came with a ARB bull bar so at least I have something to hang some supplementary lights off.

Kind regards
Lionel

[Saitch]

Good Morning, Lionel.

They don't appear to have my exact lightbar.

My lightbar is quite a few years old (Read 2013 when Stedi started) so I'm pretty sure advances have been made.

FYI: Mine is O/A Length 570mm, Lens Length 540mm, Lens Ht. 50mm, Ht. from roo bar bracket to top of light 110mm.

I selected this size, as it fits nicely between the bar's uprights.

In the third photo, the different sections can been seen.

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One thing with these lights is, if driving at night on a surf beach which has a lot of airborne, salt spray, turning it on is akin to putting a white sheet in front of you. [bigsmile]

[Graeme]

I have a D3 and find the headlights are more than sufficient for a sedate, night drive home through Skippy Land, with an occasional bovine thrown in.
I dispensed with the driving lights on my D4 that had bi-xenons once I fitted a cheap HID 4500K kit to the high-beam fill-ins with the globe tabs bent forwards to raise the beams. However my son who now owns the D4 has fitted driving lights yet we both live in the same rural area.

[V8Ian]

Driving Lights | Spotlights | Thermal | FYRLYT (https://www.fyrlyt.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wix_google_business_profile&utm_campaign=2204325476433342508)

Grreat lights but the lens go milky.
All parts of these lights are replaceable, the whole light being serviceable.

[Tombie]

Driving Lights | Spotlights | Thermal | FYRLYT (https://www.fyrlyt.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wix_google_business_profile&utm_campaign=2204325476433342508)

Grreat lights but the lens go milky.

No they dont - theyre Borosilicate glass

[V8Ian]

No they dont - theyre Borosilicate glass
Mine have become opaque, the first were replaced foc, under warranty. The replacements have also gone the same way.

[Tombie]

Mine have become opaque, the first were replaced foc, under warranty. The replacements have also gone the same way.

And now they use glass :)

[V8Ian]

And now they use glass :)
Oh, so a bit like "Don't buy a Land Rover, they break axles"? [biggrin]

[Gravy]

The important factor in fitting driving lights is the rigidity of the mounting. I had to make several enhancements to my DIY behind the grill mounting bracket to obtain a good result.

[loanrangie]

I put 55W HID inserts in my old IPF 800 spotties and they are more than enough for what i do, 42" LED bar overhead takes care of lighting up the side of the road.
I bought a set of cheapie 7" round LED spots for a cosmetic change so will see how they perform.

[PeterOZ]

fleabay light bar and SK LED driving lights. Cheap and cheerful. Works well for me.