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Old 18-12-2007, 21:50   #1
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Default Roof spotlights - advice required

Ok I want spotlights on the roof............but on a budget!!

I have the roof bars but the thule bars to fit it in halfords are £40 and ebay are not much cheaper, so any ideas??

Also need rectangle lights? Any cheap places? Halfords for four are £56, disgusting, and cant find any on ebay just chrome round ones that I have on my other mav.

(might even just bolt them to the roof but the sunroof takes up a lot of that)

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Old 18-12-2007, 22:08   #2
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Hello 4x4xford,

Did you see the roof pods with the 4 round lights built in in which we covered on here a short while ago and very reasonable price too.

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Old 18-12-2007, 22:08   #3
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I got all my gear at Halfords...Roof bar kit was about £70 all in and the spots were £20 a pair,could probably get them cheaper of ebay but i have this bad illness that when i get an idea,i have to do it KNOW!!...lol
Just measured and drilled four holes on the cross bar and attached the spots that way...makes them easier to come off if you need them off! :smile:
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Old 18-12-2007, 22:11   #4
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I will have a look round for that, although I do know of a set I posted not long ago but think they were £80 or so??

Do you mean these:

http://www.direct4x4.co.uk/index.php...product_id=645
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Old 18-12-2007, 22:14   #5
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There the ones, You beat me to it,
I remember Boggert was looking a short while ago.

http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.co.uk...&highlight=pod

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i have this bad illness that when i get an idea,i have to do it KNOW!!...lol
I have exactly the same illness. Ive already bought 4 round lights off ebay for this but they are to big really so ill get some smaller ones.

In fact I will take a pic of them in some kind of situ and people can tell me if they look daft or not????[/i]
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I got 4 6" round spots on roof rack,think they are great!! : :
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Old 18-12-2007, 22:39   #8
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Sorry 4x4xford did you say yours has the factory roof rails :? If you do you could get a squared steel/alloy bar to go across the rails from one side to the other & fix it in place with something like exhaust claps & the mount the spots to the bar. It was the 1st thing I could think of doing it on the cheap ops:
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Sorry 4x4xford did you say yours has the factory roof rails :? If you do you could get a squared steel/alloy bar to go across the rails from one side to the other & fix it in place with something like exhaust claps & the mount the spots to the bar. It was the 1st thing I could think of doing it on the cheap ops:
Well funny you should mention that cause thats what I did first of all, mounted my round ones on a bar with exhaust clamps but thought it looked a bit to cheap!! how do thule bars fit in the rails??can something replicate that??
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Old 18-12-2007, 23:58   #10
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I went in to halfords and looked in there catalogues at what other cars used the same clamps and then looked on ebay for some bars. I ended up with some for £5 that the guy had had on a renault laguna. I've actually got skoda felicia estate roof rails too, but they are the same profile as T2/Mav ones, well they take the same clamps anyway.
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Old 19-12-2007, 02:29   #11
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Should have bou........... :

Have a look at how mine are mounted, dead cheap and don't care if they look it either but they work.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...man/Rocky2.jpg
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Here we go
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Should have bou........... :

Have a look at how mine are mounted, dead cheap and don't care if they look it either but they work.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...man/Rocky2.jpg
Dont say it!! : :

Why Nissan couldnt put gutters on I dont know. :? :?

I will mount them on square tube its the mounting to the rails I wont to get better.

Where did you get your spots from??
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Where did you get your spots from??
Somebody who needed the money, 8 of them for twenty of them little gold chocolate pieces :
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Old 20-12-2007, 20:40   #15
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Ive done it.....there on!! 8) 8) 8)

35 x 25 square tube, mounted underneath the roof bars with 2 exhaust clamps. :wink: :wink:

Budget roof lights....................done!!

And in case your wondering they look fantastic : :
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