Roof lights

[zippy656]

ok quick chat about roof lights..

views welcome as well

 

[Adz]

Never say no to more light :thumbs

 

[extreme-4x4]

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

 

[Deleted account DD]

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 :thumb2

 

[Fez_uk]

or you have some strange desire to increase your fuel consumption dramatically

How much does it change?

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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.

 

[Fez_uk]

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.

 

[extreme-4x4]

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

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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.

 

[MudLifeCrisis]

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

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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....

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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

or ploughing 40 acres?, that leads to beam patterns eh.

 

[extreme-4x4]

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

 

[jace]

i did have 600w of light pwer on front mine needed a 3ltr engine to run em lol
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[extreme-4x4]

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parked in the drive , left lights on overnight. and burnt the bloody house down :doh

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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

daft as it sounds the terrano is quite aerodynamic, think of the flow lines, certainly
compared to the bricks that preceeded it, so as Col says anything is going to impact
on if on all the time, even if a good pose.

perhaps should just stick to stuff on bumper.

So Jace, do those lumps hamper airflow for cooling that zd lump?

 

[Fez_uk]

May have to have a re-think. Want to mount antennas nice and high but don't want to drill mount them anymore. Also could do with more light at night.

Might just give it a go and see what difference it makes. Will only cost me the angle alu, some wire and my time.

Those massive landy roof racks must cost loads in fuel.

 

[jace]

no but it hardly went anywhere slow enough not to have air forced through rad lol,i did think about a 2.5 bonnet for airflow (intercooler scoop) some little scrote burnt house down by setting fire to decking and sheds now sat doing an 8yr ipp for arson reckless to endanger life.
i do notice terrano 3.0 have scoop to one side maybe bolting intercooler on from t2

 

[makeitfit]

My roof lights are on a cross bar that's undo-able and has a plug n socket for the wires
I used to take it off and on but dont bother any more. I use them a lot at night where they help me see lots more

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

thats neat Pete, tell us more about this plug n socket,

i note yours are pretty much in line with rails, not over tall.

compact lights too not much more bulky than the securing
parts of the cross rail.