Agreed, too many people load up the front bull bar with big round spot lights on the front, blocking critical airflow. Mind you, my relative had a Landcruiser 200 that didn’t handle the heat too well either - but he did put a couple of Lighforce on the top of the ARB bar.
You are not allowed to mount lights n top of bullbars anymore in Australia. Nothing is allowed above the bonnet line for pedestrian safety.
Sorry - they were mounted on the top of the bull bars - bar, not the top loop, thus why they affected air flow to the radiator, transmission cooler etc.
State of California: #1 is legal (”driving lights” mounted higher than the headlights are generally not permitted on-road unless opaque covers are fitted).
Yeah, most of the big light set-ups are for off-road only. California gets a little too into people's business for my taste, but this is one reg I can get behind.
I want to have as much light as I legally can when driving on the road. I have just come back from my holiday house in my standard car with no extra lights or bull bar and it is worrying driving at dawn, dusk or at night. So many animals potentially jumping/running out from the side of the road. Even at only 80kmh you really need to see them, and have them see you, as far away as possible. I have just been reading through the laws in Queensland and have had to change my plans.
So you were going to put a LED bar on the top hoop of the Roo Bar weren't you mate?
I had planned on putting two small light bars with 4,000 lumens each, that can have amber covers on them, aimed slightly outwards, so I could use them as infill, without the covers or as fogs with the amber covers fitted. also either 1 round spot light or a light bar. switched independently but linked to high beam as required.
was down as 42" on my configuration. cannot access the pfd anymore so cannot tell if changed to 40" but I suspect as much.
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A good legal high beam lightbar with 1 m length (like the Osram VX1000) is about 350 to 400 €. There are brighter ones, like Baja, but these go up to 1000 €. You also have to be aware of the reference number, which is even more restricted in the US to 150000 cd whereas the UN-ECE which applies in Europe allow 430000 cd.
