Thread: Light bar mounted between (to) roof rails?

OP, scroll down and have a look at Aleksander's blue Disco. The second photo seems to show what you mean.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...s-only-11.html

This aftermarket rack from rockyroad may be an idea, and assist with mounting options?

Originally Posted by twr7cx

That's exactly my point - only 100m of light! At 100km/h, 100m takes less than 4 seconds to travel. 150m takes about 5.5 seconds. LED light bars have very little distance.

As a comparison for you, my roof rack mounted halogen lights illuminate out to 600m - that's illuminating the area that is almost 22 seconds away at 100km/h.

I can't get a pic up, but I have a very cheap bar ( it leaks, but I was experimenting: got a Cree 27" to go on ) and two decent driving lights on my D2. At any legal speed the driving lights are basically redundant. I don't notice if I turn them off.

One thing I do notice, though. It becomes very hard to see the glow of oncoming lights, thus causing me not to dip as the other poor bloke comes over a crest. So, I don't use the LED's for highway driving. It's just not fair on everyone else.

Someone said they may be illegal to fit them to the vehicle roof in Victoria. This is an extract from the Vicroads website. It says they must be fitted to the front of the vehicle. I guess it turns on whether you regard the front of the roof as being part of the front of the vehicle:

As Victoria's in-service vehicle standards mirror the Australian Design Rule requirements this decision means that LED light bars can be fitted to vehicles in Victoria. Constraints remain on the fitment of LED light bars, so any LED light bar that is fitted must be installed in alignment with the following requirements:
The lamps should, as far as is possible, be installed symmetrically in pairs to the front of the vehicle.
If lamps are not fitted as pairs (e.g. one, three etc), they must be fitted to the front of the vehicle, symmetrically about the centre.
A maximum of four driving lamps (including LED light bars) can be fitted to a vehicle in addition to the vehicle's main beam headlamps.
The lamp/s must be installed in a way that the light produced does not cause the driver of the vehicle discomfort either directly or by reflection.
The lamp/s must only come on when the main-beam (high beam) headlamps are used, and must automatically turn off when the main-beam headlamps are turned off.
The lamps must not obstruct the driver's view of the road.

Here's mine - 2 X 9800LM mounted on brackets I fabbed up to the G4 cross bar. They are mounted just far enough back to eliminate any glare of the bonnet. Very happy with outcome and luminance.

Plenty of light for slow, off road driving. I have two Lightforce 140's on the bull bar for the road.

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PS - UNI FILTER Sticker is from the previous owner - Not me ... I only use gen filters
Cheers Dave

I made up a cross member out of some rectangular aluminium box and a couple of stainless U-bolts. Im not 100% happy with how high it sits but its on there pretty solid. I had enough ally to make two cross members so when i get my solar panel it will mount between them nicely

Looks good Toby ... Even better with some G4 roof rails ... I got mine from Bundalene

Originally Posted by iPom

Looks good Toby ... Even better with some G4 roof rails ... I got mine from Bundalene

I've been contemplating going the Rocky Road rails route. They are cheap enough and they have a good range of bolt ons to suit them.