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View Poll Results: Roof lights
worth having 6 42.86%
not worth having 6 42.86%
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Old 12-01-2011, 22:42   #1
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ok quick chat about roof lights..

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Old 12-01-2011, 22:55   #2
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Never say no to more light
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Old 12-01-2011, 22:55   #3
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they wont help you drive through mud or snow or over rocks. they wont even help you drive through a field or tow a caravan or horse box.

so i see little point .... unless you want to look like a proper off roader

or you have some strange desire to increase your fuel consumption dramatically
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Old 12-01-2011, 23:05   #4
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or you have some strange desire to increase your fuel consumption dramatically
No real experience of them myself so cant comment but i agree with this bit
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Old 12-01-2011, 23:06   #5
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or you have some strange desire to increase your fuel consumption dramatically
How much does it change?
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Old 12-01-2011, 23:19   #6
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guess depending on drag, from size and position of lamps
like having a roof rack and roof box? on all the time.

always liked the look, right back to a team van having
a couple and the fall guys pickup i think, however the
increased height is always thing puts me off as most
of multi storey car parks we use we only just clear the
barrier as it is.

looking thru old site pixs reminded me a member had a
trol with lights sort of down the windscreen, used a
gutter mounted roof barat top or in front of a pillar
so lights were almost horizontal with roof, essentially
in the top of the front view, but at or above bottom
of sunvisor level, dont know how much wuld annoy
me losing vision still, as trol windscreen is much less
deep than terrano2. then got to hide wiring,not so
bad if have a snorkel to hide it behind.

tip for terranos can run wires behind door seal, theres
a seal runs right along top and down a pillar of slam
area.
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Old 12-01-2011, 23:34   #7
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I was going to get 4 like petes.

But mount it on a piece of alu angle permanantly to the rails. Then have my CB and VHF antenna mounted in the angle alu. The lights won't be higher than the roof rails.

I can't see that increasing fuel consumption too much.
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i put just a standard roof bar on mine . across the front and that alone draggs like a bastard the noise alone put me off putting lights on it .
mpg up 5mpg
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I was going to get 4 like petes.

But mount it on a piece of alu angle permanantly to the rails. Then have my CB and VHF antenna mounted in the angle alu. The lights won't be higher than the roof rails.

I can't see that increasing fuel consumption too much.
thats probably the best bet on an all rounder vehicle, if can keep height down
to existing metal work even roof rails, mickey mouse ear jobs stand out, but
are going to be more drag.

on my terrano, didnt have side rails but was looking at cross bars mounted
in door slams as low profile as possible with oblong lights below bar or in front
so could scrape under barriers...then some twonk wrote it off and got troll...

other option is easily removed bar, likely of roof rack variety, but then need
to figure out temporary wiring arrangement, was looking at caravan socket
to plug to, but unsure if wanted socket on roof either.
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Roof lights are only useful if wired to work on their own and used when wading at night so you can turn off submerged lights.

So not a lot of use for most owners.


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now then thinking outside box, i use a stinger cb twig on a magmount, its pretty
well stuck to roof too in use, how about say a light mounted to a mag mount
with temp cable into car, or even two mags and a light bar between, chuck it
up when needed after all can stick a magnetic beacon as and when.

ok might need some alignment but once on, especially with 2 mag mounts isnt
going to move far....
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Roof lights are only useful if wired to work on their own and used when wading at night so you can turn off submerged lights.

So not a lot of use for most owners.


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or ploughing 40 acres?, that leads to beam patterns eh.
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the thing i found is when doing extreme raised air even that little scoop at the top of the screen really grabs the air off the screen . so anything you put at the top of the screen is going to cost you big bucks in fuel
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i did have 600w of light pwer on front mine needed a 3ltr engine to run em lol
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i did have 600w of light pwer on front mine needed a 3ltr engine to run em lol
From navara
parked in the drive , left lights on overnight. and burnt the bloody house down
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