lightforce or roolights

[blue thunder]

Gday all, Looking to put a set of driving lights on my disco and was wondering if any one has used either lightforce or roolights and which is the best and also do they perform as well as stated? cheers jay:burnrubber::banana:

[DiscoDan]

I thought they were one and the same (but will be corrected)

I have been running Lightforce 170's for the last 6 years and love them. I tested them once against some IPF's and they seemed to go further and brighter. (I am bias but the owner of the IPF's was impressed)

I haven't had any issues with breakages and the car was involved in a nose tail a few years ago. (Our nose their tail:()

I would happily buy another set if required.

Hope this helps

Danny

[rangieman]

Ive been running the Lightforce 240 Blitz for about 3 years , No probs at all and very bright ;)
I have heard the roolights are the same , although i dont think this has been proved:cool:

[leeds]

I use 170 Lightforce lights on the 110 and the Disco. Very good lights

Only slight problem I had with them so far is I lost one of the perspex covers on my Oz tour. Don't know if lost it due to the corrugations or ducking them in deep water. Black gaffer tape was applied when I replaced them.

The top IPF lights on roof bar got a cracked glass. Thinking of replacing them with 140 Light Force


HTH

Regards

Brendan

PS Have no experience of roolights

[drivesafe]

Hi blue thunder, the subject of roof lights has been cover a few times and if you do a search, you’ll find the threads.

Not wishing to bring the pros and cons of either lights up again, if you can get a ride with someone who has roof lights and see whether they would be a benefit your own needs by going for a night drive.

You can then decide which suits your needs.

[blue thunder]

Hi blue thunder, the subject of roof lights has been cover a few times and if you do a search, you’ll find the threads.

Not wishing to bring the pros and cons of either lights up again, if you can get a ride with someone who has roof lights and see whether they would be a benefit your own needs by going for a night drive.

You can then decide which suits your needs.
Gday Drivesafe, Sorry for the stuff up I was looking for lights for front bar my mistake and was looking at these specific brands, If I do put roof lights on it will be the same brand as front bar. cheers jay

[isuzu110]

I have roolites and am very happy with them

[bblaze]

Hi
I run roolights and do a fair amount of night driving and have been happy with the lights. They are a cheaper than lightforce and believe they are a copy
cheers
blaze

[feral]

I have'nt used either brand but I have heard the Roolights are good.

They will not be as good as the Lightforce but as an experiment how would Roolights go with 55w HID's?

I have noticed the Roolights become a lot more expensive now so the cost saving might not be there :(

[Brick]

Have a set of Lightforce XGTs on the D3 and converted to 55w HID.

Very happy with the light output up the road when out in the country. Only issue was mounting them - needed to drill new holes in the bar as the standards were too close to the uprights. Also a pain to get the spanner on the nuts whole holding the light still to tighten them. But once set up, all good. Ran a set of 240 Blitz on a previous fourby with no problems at all.

Cheers

[The ho har's]

Light force was great as I drive to work in the dark most of the time....was like in daylight.........now RED 130 has them on and I have inferior ones:mad:



Mrs ho har:angel:

[Sprint]

fwiw, i recently gave a pair of 170's to a mate, some lowlife had flogged the pair of 170's off the front of his hilux, so i have him the pair i had, i've tried Rally4000's, IPF Extreme Sport 900's and the 170's......
this says it all, though my mate was stunned that i was just giving him the 170's:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

Originally I had IPF 900's, then EVERYBODy told me how good the Lightforce 240Blitz's were.
I sold 15 sets to a mining company I dealt with and thought as I got such a good deal for 15, would the supplier throw in a 16th set for free?? Well not quite, but I did get them at 50% off the best price for 15 pairs which was something like $320/pr if I remember correctly, so I put them on and was reasonably happy with them.
HOWEVER..... either get the HID upgrade for them (240's) or at least get the Osram RooShooter globes that go in the handheld light. The std globe filament is a horizontal one, lets call it an EAST WEST globe and tends to give you a lack of intensity as 50% of the filament is facing forward and not being picked up by the reflector.
The RooShooter globe is a NORTH SOUTH filament that emits the light 360 deg into the reflector and yes it does make a big difference. I found this out on my last shooting trip to a mates farm near lake grace here in WA.

We had 2 Lightforce handhelds, one which blew a globe and the only spare was one of my std globes I had in the car.

One thing I like about the 240's is the ability to adjust the focus by rotating the lense regardless of which cover you have on and how easy it is to change the globe just by unscrewing the lense! But put a hose clamp over it to keep it secure or you may miss one or both as they are easy to get knocked of on a 5 finger discount.

Anyway, in my pursuit for "eternal light" I fitted my IPF 900's back as well so now I have 4......:eek::eek:

What was the question again..........

[Nick S]

Got the Roolite 220s and put in 55w HIDs - very impressed with the output but I'm sure that the HIDs would make any light better, never used Lightforce

[Sven_040]

Don't discount Narva.

Unrated light by lots of people but i find them fantastic wouldn't go anything else

[V8Ian]

Don't discount Narva.

Unrated light by lots of people but i find them fantastic wouldn't go anything else

Only the taurus

[2 rocks]

Well I'm pleased with the support for the Blitz 240's as I picked up a perfectly good pair at a garage sale the other week for... 50 bucks...
Want to get the proper harness for them and then work out if they'll replace the IPF 800s or augment them.
I've found the 800 quite ok so far apart from both being spots instead of 1 spot/1 spread.
Mike

[Treads]

I've got LF XGT's converted to 55w HID. Awesome amount of light to say the least :cool: Wouldn't have anything else now