Light Bar

[Hillbilly]

Best ask ECB as I would have thought that what you want to do would be illegal on an airbag equipped car. I bought a s/hToyota Bullbar and it was an easy fit on my vehicle except that it had to have an airbag compliant fitting kit with it Cost me another $200 for the brackets to make it legal

[Ozsko]

Best ask ECB as I would have thought that what you want to do would be illegal on an airbag equipped car. I bought a s/hToyota Bullbar and it was an easy fit on my vehicle except that it had to have an airbag compliant fitting kit with it Cost me another $200 for the brackets to make it legal

Yes, I never had any other intention. Further to this I have just spoken to my son who works on canbus electronics in cars all day and while he doesn't work on VW his biggest issue with it is where to pick up the high beam signal for the relays without causing problems with voltage levels.

[Diver3284]

Any new information about a way to mount some driving lights? I'm in the same boat as Ozsko and would like to mount my trusty Hella 100 watt HID's to my Highline. On previous cars I have used a standard number plate mount, suitably backed up for rigidity, but the radar unit for the cruise control and EAB system is mounted behind the central grille badge and the lights would be too close together. I tried it with a mock-up of the system before going to the trouble of pulling the bar cover off to mount the plate mount and it all came up with error messages.

[Ozsko]

I haven't done any more towards this due to a long period of ill health, I reckon that I might have filled the fuel tank three times since the last post on this it has been driven that little. What sort of space between the lights did the mock up have? I was thinking that the lights would have to be as wide as possible to avoid error messages.

[Diver3284]

The numberplate mount is about 380mm wide, so the lights were mounted about 340mm apart. They are Hella 180's so there was only about a 180 mm gap between the inner edges. Much too close. The only way I can see is if someone makes a proper nudge bar with light brackets, or go a custom route, which would be quite spendy.

Hope your health is on the way back up.

[Umai Naa!!]

Where's the radar on your car?

If it's in the badge, perhaps flip the mount upside-down, and mount the lights/light bar under the number plate?

[Diver3284]

That might put the light bodies out of the line of the radar beam, but they would also obscure the number plate, with the attendant attention of the law!

[Umai Naa!!]

Not if you mount them upside down.

[Ozsko]

The lights would be too low, the lower they are mounted the less range they have.

[Diver3284]

Any movement on this issue in the last few months.. I have tried a few custom alloy shops, but they aren't prepared to touch the job because of the ADR issues. A Google search only turns up an Italian company, Misutonida, who do an EU compliant version which would prabably be OK in AUs, but the price for shipping it out would be prohibitive.

Any ideas???