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View Poll Results: Roof lights | |||
worth having | 6 | 42.86% | |
not worth having | 6 | 42.86% | |
dont know | 2 | 14.29% | |
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12-01-2011, 22:42 | #1 |
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Roof lights
ok quick chat about roof lights..
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12-01-2011, 22:55 | #2 |
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Never say no to more light
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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 |
12-01-2011, 23:05 | #4 |
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12-01-2011, 23:06 | #5 |
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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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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. |
12-01-2011, 23:37 | #8 |
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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 .
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12-01-2011, 23:42 | #9 | |
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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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12-01-2011, 23:46 | #10 |
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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. Brian |
12-01-2011, 23:46 | #11 |
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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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12-01-2011, 23:47 | #12 | |
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or ploughing 40 acres?, that leads to beam patterns eh.
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12-01-2011, 23:49 | #13 |
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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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