Thread: Defect Notice for Roof Rack Lights

Originally Posted by Avion8

Your going to get defected Tombie for having a very tatty mudflap. Can't have molten stuff dripping of the back of a Defender now can we Sir.

Was sorted after this pic when the exhaust was adjusted..

Interestingly, never got chatted for this set up...


So glad I've got what I have now - no need for so many lights anymore.

This thread had me intrigued.
So I thought I would look up what the law actually was?

First off, if you live in NSW (which, thankfully, I don't) best of luck finding what the laws are on the internet without reading through hundreds of pages & then being totally confused. But, as best I could understand it roof mounted spot lights in NSW (Mexico) are illegal full stop.
Maybe I have interpreted this wrong but that's the way it reads to me.

Now, in QLD (Gods Country or Heaven) it is all quite simple & there is a very good summary from main roads.
Basically in QLD you can have up to 6 spotlights, a light bar counts as 1, they can be on the roof but must be at least half the car length back, not cause glare to the driver, be switched through the main beam + a separate switch & most interesting of all not be in the drivers line of sight!

That last bit means that all those millions of 4WDs with a light bar on the top rail of their Bull Bars are illegal, never seen anyone getting stopped for it though. But if you want to look like a "Legend" it's probably OK.

The only other thing is they must be symmetrically mounted about the center line of the car.
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This proves that QLD is better than NSW or even Mexico!

Jonesfam

Originally Posted by jonesfam

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Basically in QLD you can have up to 6 spotlights, a light bar counts as 1...

Jonesfam

You might want to check on that. Last i checked the qld rules it said lights must be mounted in pairs and a light bar counted as one pair. You also needed to put something in the middle of a light bar to make it look like 2 lights instead of one

Originally Posted by isuzurover

You might want to check on that. Last i checked the qld rules it said lights must be mounted in pairs and a light bar counted as one pair. You also needed to put something in the middle of a light bar to make it look like 2 lights instead of one

That was true but, with the popularity of light bars, the rules were altered.
As to being on top of the front bar, that is illegal but, as mentioned, there are heaps of 4WD Action University graduates, some with Honours I reckon, driving with them mounted there.
Steve

Originally Posted by Saitch

That was true but, with the popularity of light bars, the rules were altered.
As to being on top of the front bar, that is illegal but, as mentioned, there are heaps of 4WD Action University graduates, some with Honours I reckon, driving with them mounted there.
Steve

Not sure about that Steve, most of the stuff I have read states must be below bonnet line, nothing about not being mounted on the top of the bull bar. Both the Defender and the D2 we have you could easily get a light bar either below or in line with the bonnet fairly easy on the bar. I suppose it may be open to some interpretation though and wont help when you get a canary. Having said that I have had a pair of Narva Spread Beams on top of the Defender bullbar for nigh on 12 years now and never been chatted once. Though I have to say they do not impede vision at all, but would if mounted in a similar way on the D2.

WA is simple

Always funny how powers that be interpret the law and abide by it... Police have excessively bright lights, forward and back, when they pull up... So much so, that its blinding, yet they would crucify a driver for having up high.. And do nothing to those driving a car on high beam during the day...

All too much...

One model of truck comes out with spotties mounted in panel above windscreen(cant remember which make or model), but they work well, i followed one, even tho his dog was wagging its tail for 200 k's I could get a good view up ahead of them...

I wonder how factory installed would go with NSW...