Spot Lights for 4wd
Submitted by Simo_ on Tue, 2017-07-11 08:50
Hi Guys
I need some new spot lights for my 4wd. Can anyone recommend a place to go in the Rockingham area. Looking for a place to supply and install.
Cheers
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Bring on April
Terry
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Auto One
Auto One has a store in Rockingham, Dixon rd I think it is.
Also Kwinana and Mandurah. Sure they all supply and fit.
dano83
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Hey Simo, they aren't to
Hey Simo, they aren't to hard to install mate.. you can buy a harness and the spotties and they are pretty much pug and play just a few wires you need to connect nits pretty simple if you are handy
squidvicious1
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Good spottie suppliers offer
Good spottie suppliers offer a free or (pay) for a plug and play harness.
Shimka
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Date Joined: 06/02/14
What do you use your 4x4 for?
What do you use your 4x4 for? This will determine what spots you need (so will budget obviously) & that will determine where you need to go to buy them. A $200 pair from some chain store might be ok on a tourer but will be unlikely to last very long if you do many water crossings or spend lots of hours on the beach. By the same token, you probably don't need a set of Lightforce LED's for a yearly holiday & a few hours on the beach each month. If you need the higher quality stuff, go straight to the manufacturer or to a specialist 4x4 shop because Supercrap etc won't have the quality you need. If you only need the low to mid range quality, then the likes of Repco, Auto One etc should have you covered for supply only.
I don't think Auto One etc would fit driving lights but even if they did, you would have to be a mug to let them do it. The quality of workmanship will be crap & any crimps/connections they have to make will be total rubbish. Either take it to an auto sparky with a good rep or do it yourself. It is a very simple install & you would have no problem doing it yourself. If you end up with a pre-made harness, check that all the connections have heat shrink & are properly crimped. Silicone sleeves over connectors/crimps is not good enough. They WILL allow moisture into the connections & you WILL end up with problems. Doing your own install will allow you to make sure all your connections are done properly so you won't have to try to trace a wiring issue later down the line.
swarf
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spotties
As above it depends on how often you use them.
Ive got standard narva ultima 175s that came on my car when I got it and have wanted to replace them since I got it with some Lightforce, Stedis or HIDS....but for what I use them for I cant fault them, I'll spend the money on fishing gear instead of new spotties
Adventure 4x4 in Rockingham have recently done a heap of work on a mates new 200 series to make it a proper offroad tourer so if you want to go down that route I've heard they are very good
Darren253
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I've got these fitted
m.ebay.com.au/itm/Pair-9inch-6800W-NEW-CREE-LED-HID-Driving-Lights-Work-Spotlights-Offroad-4x4-VS-/302291146079
I had lightforce HID's that died after 6years service, abuse and UV damage. Broke at the base on they road/track to Kalumburu. They cost me about $650 back then.
I replace with the above in a Broome caravan park. These have done the Kimberley, Karijini and a boat load off corrigation during and inbetween. As far as I can tell they are identical to the ARB ones with different covers. Mine are 2years now and going strong. Only thing I did was replace the locking cap screw with a high tensile one so I could stop them from dropping after long corrigation trips. And easy DIY project if you're half handy and buy a reasonable harness kit.
Simo_
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Thanks for the advice guys.
Thanks for the advice guys. Only need it for going On fishing trips 1 or 2 times a year. I'll check out some of the plug and play options.
Bring on April
kknlk
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Date Joined: 30/12/08
You can get more advice from
You can get more advice from 4x4 forums as well. For fishing trips I presume going offroad. Spotlights may not be the answer if you are going slow on tracks or sand. Led lightbar may be better as gives a better spread. Hids may light up for a mile but if you are going slow what's the point as your most immediate concern is what's in front of you, not what's ahead. On the bitumen, imo Hids equally useless when lighting over 500m. Do your calcs as to what speed you normally do at night and figure how many metres you need lit up. There's no point in lighting up the road for 1k when you cant use it. Also you blind the person in front of you and the one coming in the opposite direction. Even so, I think best combo is Led for spread and Hid for distance (within reson). If you can afford both then great as with a spare battery you can use the Led for camping so you don't flatten your starter battery.
Shimka
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A couple of good points
A couple of good points above. Worth noting that most sets of halogen driving lights come as a matched pair of one spot & one spread. Same for many HID sets to. Most LED sets have a combination of spot & spread LED's within each light but you should double check each model you look at. The better brands often allow you to select what combination of spot & spread you want regardless of the bulb type.
The best for enhancing usefull driving light are by far the LED spot/spread combo units. They generally put out a very white light (check packaging again) & you get far more spread out of LED's designed for this purpose than a HID or halogen spread. I ran halogen & HID spots with a light bar for years but the GQ came with an unmarked LED set of driving lights. I won't be going back to the other types of lights again, they just don't come close. I light up 450m of road in front of me no problem & my spread is very close to that of the 36" light bar I used to run.
If you investigate LED lights you will no doubt come across the 4wdsupacentre lights. Some rate them, some hate them. I know 3 blokes that had them. None of them have them now. They are bloody bright & they are bloody cheap but they are made in China & you get what you pay for I reckon. Personally, I wouldn't touch them but that doesn't mean they don't suit other people. 4wdsupacentre in also really well known for super slow delivery times if you do go that way. I've only ordered a recovery kit from them once & it arrived within a week but that seems to be the exception with waits of several months seeming to be very common.
Krusty
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Some good advice above.One
Some good advice above.
One other thing with the cheap LED bars or lights is that you will more than likely get a hell of a lot of interference from them which in some cases will totally block out your radio, both am/fm and uhf.
You can sometimes minimise this with a ferrite coil but with a quality brand you shouldn't have this problem.
As Shimka said....you get what you pay for and I like to buy things once !
My fishing spots are so secret........... even the fish don't know where they are !!