Thread: Driving light suggestions for a D3

Originally posted by disconut


Oh no! Not an Urban Assault Vehicle 8O .

Trev.

With the Disco you get a choice of epithets and the other one is "Soft Roader"

Just needs the "cookie cutters" fitted. ( some times used for fishing poles).

Scruby doobie doo!

Trev.

Well it’s roof lights for me.

Although I’d like to put a bull bar on the D3, the RR is still likely to see more serious off road use so to improve on road night driving for the D3 will be roof mounted Hella 181s.

I considered the Lightforce driving lights but as roof lights, they would end up being to high.

Now, has anybody fitted roof lights to a D3 yet, I’ve checked other sites and there are a few other D3 owners contemplating roof installs but have not seen any yet to get an idea of the wiring locations.

Cheers and any ideas would be appreciated.

I'm getting the ARB bar fitted Monday week, so I'll post some pics then.

I hope it looks alright. (not that I'd admit it if it doesn't!). There's too many big roos aroud here to go without. We've had a bit of a plague lately. :?

I'm told that it's quite close fitting. So much so that the UHF antenna will have to be mounted on the bumber section as the bar is too close to the car and the bonnet would hit any antenna bracket.

Hi jamo, touch wood, I’ve done about 30,000 kms of night driving in the RR and I think the lights have played a big part in not have a roo hit, so I’ll go the way of roof lights first.

I had bull bars on both my D1 and D2, didn’t have the D2 long enough to worry about roos but the D1 did 240,000 kms and I managed to hit two roos with it.

One bounced off the front with no damage but one of these dickheaded animals hopped into the side of the D1. Made a nice imprint in the front off side guard.

Both times I did not have the roof lights on, whether they would have helped or not I don’t know.

Cheers

[quote=drivesafe]Thanks one_iota, I haven’t seen an ARB bull bar in real life yet but from a few pictures that are about, in my opinion, their bull bar changes the appearance of the D3 too much.

The one I saw today was not as obtrusive but the idea is now a no go as the wife has said “no way” so back to square one.

This is a pain in the A, a new 4x4 in the driveway and I can’t play with it.

[size=24]<span style="color:red">NOT HAPPY “JANE”</span>

Drivesafe, do you mean the LR Brushbar option for the D3. If you do, foget it - it is rubbish. It is likely to fall off and try to wedge itself under the D3 when the bolts holding it on under the front get caught on the first bit of dirt. See below.



ARB Bar and Winch doesn't look that good on a D3 but is practical.



Chris

I agree that lights are a major factor, but the last roo I hit was in daylight!!

It literally bounded out of the scrub straight onto the road about 1m in front of me.

I didn't even have time to react or tell the roo how I felt!

I have run Shoo Roo's for the last 13 years, out West, up in the NT etc. Bought the D2 and didn't bother with it, smack, got a roo at 4am going to work. $2k later it was bolted on pronto. It now sits on the Fender.

They work well.

Trev.