You can have my Porsche club membership
they like fancy posh stuff
You can have my Porsche club membership
they like fancy posh stuff
I've never used roof mounted lights in the bush, I know plenty that have them but for the outlay it seems to be (IMO) expensive for for the amount of use they get, different if your farming in the UK in winter, but for general camping/overlanding I don't see the point when we have great head torches with us.For a simple work light these are hard to beat, I have them on one of the tractors. Very consistent wide beam pattern. I had one on the back of my 110 too.
edit, i have the Scene beam pattern.
Wilderness Lighting Compact 2 Lights - Spot Beam Pattern
Wilderness Lighting Compact 2 LED light. Wilderness Lighting Compact 2 Light is available in a flood or spot beam pattern. Wilderness Lighting lights have a 3 year guarantee. Wilderness Lighting Compact 2 10 watts with a massive 1100 lumens of light produced. Wilderness Lighting Compact 2...www.wildernesslighting.co.uk
Here in winter its dark at 4 and light at about 8-8:30, so I’m often unloading / loading in the dark, reversing the trailer too was a big reason for a high level light. I had the flush mounted one on the defender. I don't like a roof mounted driving light as it reflects off the bonnet / bull bar..
I came late to head torches, but a good quality head torch is the absolute business.
www.ultimate9.co
stage1customs.com
This is what I'm thinking now - just a basic on-screen HUD with speed, temp, fuel. Thats about all I want. If we can get Tacho on their that would be great!On the subject of head-up displays… came across this one:
OBD2 & GPS Head-Up Displays [HUD]
Keep your eyes on the road with Codebreaker OBD2 and GPS Head-Up Displays (also known as HUDs) by Ultimate9.
Australian retailer:
Ultimate9 | Codebreaker | HUD | OBD2 | Heads Up Display | Stage 1 Customs
Ultimate9 Codebreaker OBD2 HUD Heads up! Keep eyes on the road thanks to the Codebreaker OBD2 HUD system. Details: Codebreaker Head Up Display systems, HUD, assist in monitoring vital parameters, such as speed, by projecting information onto a reflective pad, placed by the user in a convenient...
one of the best - never in the bush without it:I came late to head torches, but a good quality head torch is the absolute business.
The petzl’s come in a wide range of outputs, the NAO that I have is very bright.
I’d like to install a rooftop tent directly on the roof. It appears that the 4 rubber strips are all in the same plane so am brainstorming how to secure it to gutters and/or existing cylindrical roof handles. If this were possible the overall height might solve parking clearance problems for members. Thoughts??
If I remember right, are the cylindrical roof handles not strong enough to fix roof tents etc.
I would be comfortable using the roof to carry occasional loads but never to have something like a roof tent fixed directly to it Permanently. The sound of the movement between tent and roof would be unbearable offroad and there would be wearing of tent base or roof strips I think. Even when using a roof rack with a tent on things can go wrong. Fixings working loose or breaking free from my own experience
. I attach a photo of what happened to us in 2019 after some heavy off road use in Mauritania. Some fixings had worked loose even with thread lock and lock nuts and the remaining fixings ripped out of the slots in the slats of the roof rack.
You wouldn't be covered by insurance or warranty in Australia I could guarantee that
Yes, they have a gutter mounting kit available (see link). I don’t see it on their website or on the wall at St Peters but they were kicking around at the last Sydney 4WD show. Their steel racks are probably a more durable option but they lack the nifty engineering of the modular system.
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