Thread: LED Light Bars - confused help

Whatever you fit, it will survive best where it isn't getting thwacked by stones and crap and vibrated to bits. Care in installation helps a lot with vibration management.

Next one is not mounting them where you get any bounce back off towards you off vehicle parts like front bar pipework. At night it can be blinding and dangerous as F, but often times you'll get through WOF with it which I think should be an absolute no. Another I've run into is a crap job tapping into the vehicle's loom causing all sorts of weird failures, errors and limp mode (irony being not one of them related to the lighting). Those piggyback plugs sound like a pretty good idea although I've not used them myself, the other good plan is running everything off the battery only cutting into the loom under the dash for switching purposes. That just minimises failures and any possible issue with overloading parts of the loom (which these days are sized for the factory gear only, they just don't give you anything spare capacity wise).

It's often a little enlightening no pun intended to get the lights out and night and rig them up to run off a battery. That way you can see the spread etc at the height you plan to run them - quite often what you get isn't whats on the box in terms of spread patterns and beam widths.