Thread: light bar installation suggestions

Light bars installed and tested it last week at night camp set up at Dunn's Swamp, make quite a difference very good light output but it sure is whistling on the roof...

I mounted mine on the bajarack with a length of alloy angle and stainless steel U bolts. It works great. I only use it off road at night, don't really need it on the highway. It has taken plenty of hits in the rainforest with no dramas.

Installed my one on two angles below pioneer rack cross bar

I was told once that additional lights had to be mounted within a 600mm radius of the manufacturers headlights and not to the out sides of original either, So if this is true mounted to the roof would be illegal for any extra lighting. Off road would be different I recon.

connock

Baja Designs 40 inch Stealth bar fitted under Windcheater roofrack. Just happens to be the right width - s/s angle brackets supplied with the light bar bolt up directly to the bolts which secure the roofrack to its support legs.

Originally Posted by connock

I was told once that additional lights had to be mounted within a 600mm radius of the manufacturers headlights and not to the out sides of original either, So if this is true mounted to the roof would be illegal for any extra lighting. Off road would be different I recon.

Might be a SA only rule for the 600mm bit. Neither the NSW nor Australian ADRs mention that restriction (at least not that I could find).

In NSW currently additional high beam lights can not be wider apart than the low beam lights, and you need to make sure if mounted on the roof they do not dazzle other drivers when in use.

The older ADRs applicable to pre-Oct 1991 build vehicles had 2 restrictions for additional high beam lights:
- not closer than 600mm apart
- not be higher than 1.6m off the ground
...althought it also says "It is acceptable for older vehicles to be up-graded to comply with the later ADR 13/00 requirement" so go figure

As for off road only, if they are fitted to the car while on a road you can be defected for them even if they are not in use.

NSW ADRs: http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registrati...s_nov_2007.pdf

PS: Actually light bars are technically illegal in NSW, as by the letter of the law you are only allowed to fit "additional pairs of high-beam headlights", and before you say each led is a pair you are limited to 6 additional high beam lights. But let's ignore that for the moment as I don't know of anyone who has been booked for an otherwise legally mounted light bar.

I believed that it was the number of reflectors that equaled the number of lights.
A car with dual, (two lights each side) had 4 head lights, this was the same for a vehicle that had the 2 reflectors behind 1 glass, i.e. the old Sigma etc.
If this is the case a light bar will have many, many reflectors, which brings up another problem. How many lights are you legally allowed on the front of a vehicle? I believed in South Aus it was 6.

Mike

Originally Posted by FeatherWeightDriver

PS: Actually light bars are technically illegal in NSW, as by the letter of the law you are only allowed to fit "additional pairs of high-beam headlights", and before you say each led is a pair you are limited to 6 additional high beam lights. But let's ignore that for the moment as I don't know of anyone who has been booked for an otherwise legally mounted light bar.

Queensland has similar laws but in the usual Queenslander way of fixing things, there is a quick and simple remedy.

All you need to do to make your LED bar compliant, is bolt a small plate over the centre few LEDs and they are now legal.

BTW, this is the info supplied by Transport and Main Roads, Queensland.

Just follow the link below.

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Search-res...tmr.qld.gov.au