Thread: Defect Notice for Roof Rack Lights

Update

I removed the two middle lights from the roof rack, leaving a total of four driving lights on the car - two in front of the grill and two up top. I saw the delightful Sergeant Breaden drive past me yesterday and he didn't pull me over, so everything must be cushty.

I'm going to take the remaining two off the roof rack though and replace them with a light bar which has a forward facing beam section in the middle but much wider spread at the sides. When driving in the thick bush at night which I've done more times than I care to count, I've found all the forward facing lights don't help at all when I'm trying to find a barely worn track off to the right or left...so the curved bar should help.

It's only a cheap one so I'll take it apart when I get it and silicone the bejeezus out of it and mount it on contact rubber to help with excessive vibrations. If it still breaks or leaks and destroys itself, I've not really lost anything.

Once I'm confident that Sergeant Breaden hasn't got anything to say about it, I'll either sell my HID spotties or find somethign amusing to so with them like put them on my Postie bike

I've been amazed at how much light my cheap lightbar on the bullbar throws out to the roadsides. It makes a huge difference. So the lightbar doesn't need to be on the roof rack to be effective.

A mate had a bar on his roof rack and after comparing his spread to mine, which is on the bar of the D1, moved his to the bar, the reason being that the flatter angle of the beam gave a lower and better side spread.
Mine is also designed for centre and side as we live rurally. Probably only use it once or twice a month.

If you combine a couple of decent spotlights with a lightbar on the roobar there is No need for lights mounted on the roof

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Manufactured between '49 and '52, I think they just scraped in before ADRs came into play.

Ian,
The cyclops Rover was the first of the P4 variety 1949-1952.
We have 3 of the later variety non cyclops P4s (Unrestored at present)
The guys over here that have them have no issue getting them registered as factory.
Generally the police over here are not interested in lights and pulling people over, unless being used unreasonably
Cheers
Craig.

Originally Posted by pop058

P3s were made in 48 and 49. Our 48 has been in the family for 30 odd years. My Dad always called it a Cyclops but I have heard to the contrary from a few (knowledgeable) sources. Many years ago, I was trying register it at Wodonga transport and the inspector would not pass it until I removed the light despite me being able to prove it was factory fit. He even offered to lend me the tools to do the job.

Pop,
The Cyclops was 49-52 P4 variety.
The P3 was completely different shape and as far as I know never came out with a centre light from factory. Yes would love a P3. We have P4s.

Originally Posted by CraigE

Pop,
The Cyclops was 49-52 P4 variety.
The P3 was completely different shape and as far as I know never came out with a centre light from factory. Yes would love a P3. We have P4s.

Weren't they a rover 90 or 75?
Built mid to late 50's?

We had one when i was a kid,had a dial thing that disengaged the transmission on over run or something like that.

Originally Posted by scarry

Weren't they a rover 90 or 75?
Built mid to late 50's?

We had one when i was a kid,had a dial thing that disengaged the transmission on over run or something like that.

My P3 is a 75 (6 cyl), also came out as a 60(4 cyl). The dial thing is a freewheel thing which allows (after initial take off) to change gears without using the clutch.