Custom Install Driving Lights and Light Bar

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Originally Posted by HarrytheDisco

The hardware

My lighting setup is comprised of:

• 50 inch curved Philips LED light bar by STEDI (https://www.stedi.com.au/curved-phil...-off-road.html)

...After considering drilling into the A-pillars above the windscreen for the light bar, I decided the better option was to make a bracket to attach the light bar to the roof racks in order to preserve the integrity of the car.


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Hi Harry,
Enjoyed your post, and the Disco is looking great with the added illumination. Black-out grille looking nice too.

My question - I may have missed this detail - how did you route power to your roof-rack for the STEDI bar? Where did you exit the bodywork, and what did you do to preserve water-proofness?
thanks,
AlexeiS
(2016 D4 SDV6 black-pack)
(looking at Red Dog LED lights)

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Originally Posted by AlexeiS

Hi Harry,
Enjoyed your post, and the Disco is looking great with the added illumination. Black-out grille looking nice too.

My question - I may have missed this detail - how did you route power to your roof-rack for the STEDI bar? Where did you exit the bodywork, and what did you do to preserve water-proofness?
thanks,
AlexeiS
(2016 D4 SDV6 black-pack)
(looking at Red Dog LED lights)

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Hi Alexeis,

Power runs from the engine bay up the passenger side A-Pillar and up onto the roof. You can see in this picture the wiring running behind the A-Pillar cover:

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That black cover pops off with 4 or 5 body clips, just need to give it a solid tug. Everything behind that cover is already waterproof and the engine bay has a big rubber seal all the way around it which I ran the wiring through right next to the A-Pillar.

Hope that helps!

Actually there is no need to remove A-Pillar Trim in order to place cable underneath. It can be done with simple cable routing tool. It is 1 minute job and no risk for the clips.

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Hope you made a small clearance for the wires so the plastic isn’t working into the insulation [emoji41]

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Originally Posted by Tombie

Hope you made a small clearance for the wires so the plastic isn’t working into the insulation [emoji41]

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This is routing tool on the photos, not the cable. Once finished it looks the same as on HarrytheDisco photos. The only difference I also managed to hide it under the rain gutter cover.

This is a job I need to do except on the drivers side.

Where did you grab one of these cable routing whatsits?

Had a quick look on Jaycar and Supercheap and couldn't see what you were talking about.

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Originally Posted by arejaybee

Where did you grab one of these cable routing whatsits?

Had a quick look on Jaycar and Supercheap and couldn't see what you were talking about.

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I have similar to this one. Very useful thing.

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