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thumbs:
i got the light bar on mine, good enough quality for the money

spots on a disco glare on dash and bonnet though so ive painter the bottom 5 mmm of the lights black to reduce this, wire them on full beam with a switch inside so you can turn them off when it is raining as it lights up every droplet in front of you

look good though :)

dazzawhipple:

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Ditto :(

Darren

Tyke:

--- Quote ---spots on a disco glare on dash and bonnet though so ive painter the bottom 5 mmm of the lights black to reduce this
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You ain't kidding either mate. Just fitted some lamps and a light bar to my motor and it looks like they will be coming off pretty soon if last nights drive down the lane is anything to go by.

Yeah - they throw out some light ok. But the reflections on the windscreen are so bad from the dash that it negates their usefullness as lights in one fell swoop.

Quite honestly I have better visibility with just the normal lamps and front spots.

Only real use I can see for them at the moment is as worklamps cos as driving lamps the set up is total rubbish.

Roof mounted lampbars - look good, work crap.

And I'm dammned if I'm gonna paint my dash matt black just to compensate to reduce the reflection. Might try tapping up the lower part of the lamps but I still ain't sure I can get on with all the glare off the bonnet.


They are a proper bad idea on the Discovery as far as I'm concerned.

thumbs:
i only really have mine on for annoying chavs with bloody spots light on when its day time or aint foggy, and i use them for drivng lanes at night,

painting the bottom does help quite a lot and point them up a bit more then you think they should be at.

still glares slightly, makes them less efficent on the main roads but down lanes etc they work well.

Tyke:
Yeah mate - I know where your coming from with the chavs  :twisted:

May be that I've over-reacted a bit here. After spending half the day yesterday sorting the things out and doing a nice wiring job then finding out they are almost bl00dy useless because of the reflections from the dash I'm a bit p'd off to say the least. I could live with the bonnet illumination to a degeree but it's those dash reflections that obscure the passenger side view that annoys me. It's like tunnel vision, the view straight ahead is fine but as soon as you try to see to the left all you get is a mirror image of the dash and somewhat obscured view of the track ahead.

Will persevere a bit yet. Sticking tape along the bottom edges and re-angling may help the night time use though they are angled up almost along the line of my front spots at the moiment so I'm not convinced anymore angle will help. Even thought about cutting a matt black cardboard panel to lay over the dash at night. Will be out and about this evening so I've a couple of things to try  :wink:

One thing they do well is light up the sides of the vehicle by the front wheels. Usually black as pitch down there, now you can see really well when you stick your head out of the window.

The other thing is I spend many weekends out overnight so they will come in very usefull as area worklights when I have thing things to do.

Will report back after I've done a bit of messing about with them in the dark tonight  :wink:

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