gjohnson wrote:Hi Tunnel Rat,
How did you find the light bar mounted on the roof of the F250 in regards to reflection on the bonnet or mirrors? I have ordered a sahara bar to replace my toyota bar and have ordered a 20" led from snake, now I am just trying to decide whether to leave my lightforce 240 HID's on the new bullbar and mount the LED up on the roll bar or put the LED on the bullbar and the spotties up the top?
Open to any comments or opinions regarding the pros and cons for each set up?
Sorry about the late reply been very busy.
You are going to have the perfect light combo the LED light bar combined with a set of HID lights works so good. They both pick up on the others weak spots and give you the best of both worlds. The hid's give you back the distance lost by the led's and the led's give you instant light over the few seconds hid take to start up.
The reflection on the bonnet was pretty bad on the F250 but the Hilux has a more angled bonnet so it should not reflect as much as the Ford did. I think you will lose too much light from your LED light bar if you mount it on your sports bar as the roof of your cabin will catch the entire bottom light output.
I totally loved the 30" RI on top of the hoop on my sahara bar no reflection and it worked great if it was the 20" it would properly still be there as the 30" looked shit on the hoop to long.
Do not get to anal about mounting it at 1.5m from the ground. That is just a reference you will need to weight up the pros and cons as the reflection of mounting it on roof racks or the sports bar may outweigh the small loss of light mounting it lower.
I know I did not notice much difference in the light spread from around 1.2m (top of my hoop) and 2m on my brothers F250. But it was much more pleasing on the eyes mounted out front with no reflection on my Hilux than mounted up high with reflection on the F250.
The best thing for you to do is wait until you get it than try it out in different spots with some good zip ties before mounting it permanent.
Have fun hope snake is passing on the good $AU seeing he has not got them instock