We tend to avoid night driving as far as possible, especially when outback and rarely travel open roads at night either. So "proper" large spotlights such as Fyrlyts or a huge lightbar seemed unnecessary for my requirements. However I still felt that some additional light would be useful for those few times and for when offroad or getting to camp sites. Stedi make a nice range of good quality work lights, spotlights and lightbars and while looking through their range I found a 6 LED unit that seemed ideal, at least on paper. It's hard to judge how much is enough for my relatively low usage but I decided that at $80 each it was worth a punt. Since fitting I've only done a quick night test so far and found a surprisingly large increase in light compared to high beam only (factory xenon), so I'm confident it's going to be exactly what I'm looking for. Their website provides good technical details >
7.5 inch Low Profile Slim LED Light Bar
For the through-grill support bracket I was set to go DIY after taking note of a few good examples on the forum. However all the brackets were designed for the more traditional bottom-mount spotlights or lightbars rather than the side mounting I needed. Using some stainless steel offcuts I spent hours trying to figure out a suitable design that I could detail and get fabricated. In the end I gave it away because anything I considered was clearly going to be difficult to measure and/or expensive to get made with my limited contacts. So then I looked at the two off-the-shelf products I knew of; Osbourne Park Auto Spark in WA and Prospeed in UK, both of which have been mentioned in here previously, for example >
LAZER spots from Prospeed-UK
The Prospeed bracket is designed for a range of Lazer lights and lightbars and most importantly for me, the same style of side mounting as the Stedi. The Lazer lights have an excellent reputation and do offer a great light output for the size but you also pay a very high premium. After comparing the lights to my Stedi units I realised that the Lazer ST-4 has very similar dimensions so I contacted Prospeed querying whether the bracket could suit my Stedi light. I have to say their assistance was excellent, offering to include additional spacers to suit my narrower overall width (which weren't required in the end). They were also really good with after sales advice over the phone regarding refitting the grill, which is quite a tight fit for the facelift version.
Shipping from the UK is very expensive for any Prospeed products so I decided to buy 3 sets to reduce the unit price. I don't expect to have any trouble offloading the spare sets given Prospeed's excellent reputation. The image below from the Prospeed website shows how the bracket can be used for a number of different lights (spot or lightbar).
Some photos showing the support brackets installed without the external light bracket.
It looks to be a very robust design that I think will handle corrugated roads well.
The front plate with slotted holes sits just outside the grill once it's on.
Discovery 3&4 Front Spotlight Mounts : ProSpeed
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