Thread: Light bar location?

Couple of different ways to look at this.

Firstly if you need extra illumination then take a look at the maximum lumens you can get out of your existing headlights. There are some aftermarket kits available to seriously boost full beam power. Do you have to be careful of any rules that might apply.

If you are travelling gravel roads frequently and simply mount a light bar onto the plastic bumper then you will end up flogging out the holes and having problems. I have seen a plastic bumper ute that didn’t have a bullbar, with a decent sized light bar fitted using a simple frame running along the underside (inside) the bumper. Such that the mounting bolts were pulling up onto the metal frame and not onto the plastic. I don’t know how long it lasted.

You really do not want the lightbar to be the front-most part of the vehicle. This is to be avoided at all costs!

In the absence of any bar work on the front of the vehicle, which would solve your problem in a heartbeat, I would fit a single Rhino rack type bar on the roof and fit the light bar on that. I don’t know what roof rack mounting options there are on the Suzuki but usually it’s pretty straightforward.

Whatever you do It must be capable of dealing with vibration which is always more than you think.