headlight/spotties advice

**Walrus1948** · 20-12-2016, 08:01 AM

There is also a guy in Melbourne who has developed an ADR compliant spotlight mount for the Amarok. Absolutely solid and will support 110kg person standing on it, no light movement or vibration offroad. Not sure if it could be modified to fit a Golf or Touareg.

**ethosguy** · 12-02-2017, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Walrus1948

There is also a guy in Melbourne who has developed an ADR compliant spotlight mount for the Amarok. Absolutely solid and will support 110kg person standing on it, no light movement or vibration offroad. Not sure if it could be modified to fit a Golf or Touareg.

Do we have contact details Walrus1948?

**sambb** · 24-11-2016, 08:59 PM

So how do you guys rate the LED narrow rectangular driving lights versus something like the halogen spotties you recommended in terms of a good colour and spread?

**Ozsko** · 24-11-2016, 09:30 PM

I have never used LED's on a car so don't know but photos show limited penetration down the road compared to a set of IPf, Cibie or Hella. 4000k is a good colour and around the temp of a halogen with good voltage to the globe. Go any higher and you start to lose definition and the light output might but the apparent light starts to disappear and you see less. I am buying a new Tiguan with LED headlights and if they are no good I will bolt a set of Super Oscars with Xenons onto the front. The only issue I find with bright lights is the reflection from signs can get to be a problem.

**sambb** · 25-11-2016, 03:13 AM

so what do you reckon then, a pencil beam + spread beam combo or a pair of spread beams.

here's the course filmed at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqD_hXE0ViY

**sambb** · 25-11-2016, 12:28 PM

If I was to go LED light bar (and probably only will if I can't find cibies or IPF for a decent price in time) then I was looking at these:

iron man do these curved light bars that give a better spread (there's also a 722mm one- 19.5" Curved LED Bar - Ironman 4x4

big red do these single and double row combination beam ones where the central LEDs reflectors give penetration and the side ones give the spread - http://www.bigredled.com.au/LED_light-bars.html

are these along the lines of what you'd think fit into the "good stuff" when it comes to LED driving lights or are they likely to still be the turd variety?

**Ozsko** · 25-11-2016, 01:26 PM

Take what I am going to say her with a big grain of salt, from what I have seen in photos and for that specific purpose on that circuit I would think a good LED bar would be better than two conventional lights, what a good one is I have no idea though. If the lights were going to stay on the car and be used on main roads then I would suffer the shadows and dark spots and general uneven light conventional lights give at very close range because the money would be wasted on an LED light bar. This the what worries me about LED headlights, I don't think they are going to have the penetration my Xenons have in the Skoda.

**sambb** · 25-11-2016, 02:05 PM

Ok good to know your reasoning re LEDs on the road versus LEDs on a tight circuit. I see where you are coming from now. No any lights that I run will only be for comps like this and i'll remove them for the road. There's only a couple of sections where you are braking hard after a long straight and only one of them is completely dark so depth penetration isn't the big priority. The main thing I'm looking for is a really good lateral spread so that I can see into/around the corners as much as possible. The other advantage of LEDs lighting bars is that they are light and low so hopefully I won't even need a nudge bar and will be able to mount them where the grill normally fits into the resin front apron/frame thingy.
Surely even just running a single centrally mounted spread beam IPF 900 or super Oscar (no pencil beam) would work really well though wouldn't it?

**Ozsko** · 25-11-2016, 02:49 PM

I would buy multiple cheaper end light bars, stack them together and see what happens. They consume so little power you could afford to run four. Being off road I would put them on the roof, the higher the better, get a roof rack and start adding lights would be my way and rip it off after the event at the track to avoid Trevor Plod handing out defects. No grills to worry about and no drilling the car etc.