LED Bar was from Amazon, and it was less than $150 shipped. The wiring was very straight forward and took me and a friend an hr to install. One of the best investment I have made so far.... aside from the airlift.
Lighting the night....
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silverpath
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Lighting the night....
...since it's deer season, I thought I'd light up the night by installing a 20" LED Bar on my bull bar.
LED Bar was from Amazon, and it was less than $150 shipped. The wiring was very straight forward and took me and a friend an hr to install. One of the best investment I have made so far.... aside from the airlift.
LED Bar was from Amazon, and it was less than $150 shipped. The wiring was very straight forward and took me and a friend an hr to install. One of the best investment I have made so far.... aside from the airlift.
That light looks great! If I didn't have KC's already I would seriously consider a light like that one.
Looks like you need to relocate the front plate. I have the same bull bar and used zip ties to secure the plate to the holes in the "skid" plate (slightly bent to conform to it better). Works pretty well and have not been hassled about it at all.
Looks like you need to relocate the front plate. I have the same bull bar and used zip ties to secure the plate to the holes in the "skid" plate (slightly bent to conform to it better). Works pretty well and have not been hassled about it at all.
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here is the link to the light bar I got:NVSteve wrote:Link to these specific lights? Wonder if they make smaller sizes as well...
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Jeep-Inch-LE ... +light+bar
and it looks like they also have the smaller square and circle versions:
http://www.amazon.com/LED-LIGHTS-Square ... sim_auto_1
http://www.amazon.com/Tuff-LED-Lights-S ... sim_auto_2
http://www.amazon.com/Tuff-LED-Lights-2 ... sim_auto_5
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It actually has a pretty good throw distance. The 1st time I had it set was pretty much leveled to the ground (angled a little higher than I have now), and it was pretty bright.... the high beams did not really make a difference. On how I have it now, I angled it more directed almost like a fog light (down) so it doesn't blind on coming cars -- my main purpose for the light bar is to have it on only during when their are no on coming cars or when I am on roads with no street lights or back country. The LED is very bright, and took me awhile last night to clear out when I looked at it directly, haha...skinny2 wrote:What kind of distance are you getting with the light bar? Better than high beams? I've looked at a lot of specs on LED and they don't seem to excel at distance but they sure can put a LOT of light up close. I'd be curious how that looks on a wet road at night.
Good stuff. I may try something like this. I drive a lot of back roads and you can't have too much light. I have a set of Hella Blackmagics that fire with my high beams and do a pretty good job but I could use more light when it's raining. Lots of 200# deer to cope with! I'm sure running those lights on-road is illegal too. Luckily the roads I run rarely have other cars let alone cops.
Does it look like the light-bar would fit in the grille opening behind your license plate? I don't have a bar on mine and really don't want one.
Does it look like the light-bar would fit in the grille opening behind your license plate? I don't have a bar on mine and really don't want one.
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silverpath
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It looks like it would fit, just have to do some minor cut outs of the plastic pieces so the light bar would fit nicely.skinny2 wrote:Good stuff. I may try something like this. I drive a lot of back roads and you can't have too much light. I have a set of Hella Blackmagics that fire with my high beams and do a pretty good job but I could use more light when it's raining. Lots of 200# deer to cope with! I'm sure running those lights on-road is illegal too. Luckily the roads I run rarely have other cars let alone cops.
Does it look like the light-bar would fit in the grille opening behind your license plate? I don't have a bar on mine and really don't want one.
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It doesn't come with a template, and it mounts on my pre-existing holes on my bull bar. It took me awhile to find the correct LED bar, and this one is perfect since the mounting brackets are adjustable, width wise, and angle. See pic.NmexMAX wrote:How does this mount? Does it come with a template for drilling holes?
This would be perfect for my offroading duties.
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silverpath
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check out this thread... HydroPonix did a light bar on the opening as you mentioned.skinny2 wrote: Does it look like the light-bar would fit in the grille opening behind your license plate? I don't have a bar on mine and really don't want one.
http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic. ... hlight=led
I have lights in the opening also, although they are 2 lights on either side of the license plate holder rather than one long light. On my '07, there are vertical fins that would get in the way of a full length bar. Not sure about the other model years. Picked mine up from Xoskel: http://xoskel.com/BumperMouthBracket.htmlsilverpath wrote:check out this thread... HydroPonix did a light bar on the opening as you mentioned.skinny2 wrote: Does it look like the light-bar would fit in the grille opening behind your license plate? I don't have a bar on mine and really don't want one.
http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic. ... hlight=led
Certainly more than strong/stable enough for my 2 lights. There's a thread floating around here somewhere where I posted about it.
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