Opinions please.. (new light bar)

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Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by dan00001 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 5:44 pm

Picked up this (cheap) led light bar today, not fitted yet but I think this is where I'm going to have it placed.

I think it looks really cool here but a friend of mine said he doesn't like the look of it where it is in these photos so I've come to get the opinion of this fine forum :guns:

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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by Jezz » Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:21 pm

I'll have to agree with your friend. It would be much better protected and look better if fitted below the bar it's on now.
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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by Anton » Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:52 pm

Jezz wrote:I'll have to agree with your friend. It would be much better protected and look better if fitted below the bar it's on now.
I'm of the same opinion.

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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by SherwoodNash » Wed Sep 27, 2017 7:45 pm

X 3, looks like it'll tuck in nice n' snug under that BB.

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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by dan00001 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:28 pm

Okay guys, that was the other and probably most sensible option, and actually what i had in mind before I picked up the light bar but then i thought it looked cool on top.

I'll have a play around tomorrow when hopefully it won't be peeing down with rain!

Thanks guys.

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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by zook123 » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:22 am

Are you able to move the number plate up a bit, and put the light bar underneath?

I'm having the same problems at the moment, I want to fit it above the windscreen, but the lanes I go down would rip it off, only sensible place at the moment is either fitted to the bumper, or the end of the bonnet!
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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by ScottieJ » Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:37 pm

I think i would get annoyed with it up there in my field of vision all the time, under the bar out of the way would be loads better and look nicer as well i think.
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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by ROBBIE » Thu Sep 28, 2017 3:42 pm

I would go under the bar as well. Dean on ours the bar is on the bonnet where the screen washers were, not the best looking, but works and keeps it out of the way.
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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by zook123 » Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:05 pm

Do you find you get quite a bit of glare off the bonnet? - maybe I need to stop polishing mine?
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Re: Opinions please.. (new light bar)

Post by ROBBIE » Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:15 pm

Not if you do it like this
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