Matt's 2012 TD 150 Series Prado

[craigm]

My only concern about the light bar set up in the same place ( under the Pio platform), is the reflection off the polished hoop of my Sahara Bar. Yes the simple solution would be to paint or tape up the back of the bar to reduce the reflection, but most likely not an option with SWMBO...


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[stevep84]

Looks good VX. Thanks for putting up the pics. This is the light I was looking to get in the future.

Steve

[vxcruiser08]

No probs madkore, yes she is a bit bright but its actually not as bad as it looks

Here is a few photos i took tonight, i am pretty sure i still need to get the settings adjusted properly! Total noob on the DSLR!

This is with just high beams + light bar.

[Madkore]

Thanks for the pics vxcruiser.

That first photo with the lightbar on makes your UHF antennae look like a lightsaber!

[vxcruiser08]

Keep in mind the 'combination beam' specifically on these aurora lights do not have a generous amount of light out to the sides in my opinion. I did read this same comment from the bloke that runs HID lights downunder - he also sells Aurora light bars and only does the flood beams now. Depends on your requirements really, I am happy with it as it is what it is = combo beam

As for being noticed as this is a concern for myself there are no specific laws on lights bars in NSW, I think being a 20" it's not as "in your face" as a big arse double row light bar most people are running plus these are the same amount of lumens if not more. But the bigger ones e.g. 40" aurora would have more flood out to the sides... which i am a little tempted to upgrade to later

[mjrandom]

I agree, I have enough light for the road but I want to light up the sides for track driving. The driving lights will be angled to the side to light up where the roos are hiding.

[vxcruiser08]

Thanks for the tip will do!

Yep, they are two completely different lights really. Spotties are useless on windy dirt roads, lightbar is awesome. On the highway, very much the other way around.

[mjrandom]

Try something like 15 seconds and f8 on your DSLR and then vary it according to how that comes out. Thanks for the picture. I will fit up my driving lights in lieu of fogs this weekend and see how they fare before I go for the lightbar option. Looks really neat though.

[vxcruiser08]

Sure do, apologies for iPhone quality photos. I can try and take some tonight with my DSLR if i can work out the best settings

By the way, I am going to sell the 2 x 10" Aurora Single Row light bars (4900 lumens each) i purchased from here only last week >

http://www.ledlightco.com.au/aurora-...ps-combo-beam/

Let me know if you're interested, will do a good price...

20" Lightbar + High Beams (No spot lights)



High Beams Only

[mjrandom]

Any photos of the lightbar in action? While I am running a cable up onto the roof for the solar panels I might as well run two...

[craigm]

Mmmm now you got me thinking.... Nice work!

[Hutch]

Looking good. ...

Hutch- Prado 2012 petrol with the TJM Catologue.

[vxcruiser08]

Here are the photos...

[vxcruiser08]

Hi All,

Few updates...

Walked into ARB yesterday with the intention of just mounting an Aurora Single Row LED light bar to my bullbar... however ended up walking out with the following:

- Parana Diff Breathers
- Rhino Platform Roof Rack (Black) w/heavy duty legs (rails removed)
- Fitted my Aurora Single Row LED Lightbar (10,000 lumens, 5 watt led's) mounted under roof rack, all wired back into the cab.
- IPF900XS spotties, both in spot beam
- Worklight wiring all run to rear of roof rack for when I mount the 2 x 4" Light bars with 10watt LED's x2 in each


The ARB guys from the Orange NSW did an immaculate job on the extensive amount of wiring! They even put in place one connector which all the roof lights run through so i can easily remove the rack without having to cut the wires.

Overall the lighting is great, I don't see a need (neither is it legal) for a lightbar on straight highways so it's good thing i won't be using it there. I am going to convert the spotties myself to HID's later, however driving on the dirt roads home last night with the lightbar on and a lot of roo's to test out my vision I was stoked!!

I also contacted a local plastic moulding plant and they are making up some custom black out covers. I do have another 2 x 10" Aurora single row (6000 lumens each) i was going to mount on the sides and point out (similar to THSWYUP) but i'm not sure if i'll do this now... may just swap the 20" later to a 40" ... anyway enough money spent for now!!

Will post photos soon.

[vxcruiser08]

G'day Madkore, thanks! Hopefully have a better lens next trip!

ST Maxx's were great! I tell you what, the whole trip i got given a lot of crap off my mates – they are big time cooper haters! I don't know how many times on the radio i heard "watch out for the cooper killers after that corner" or similar! I had to think of some names related to their tyres to get them back e.g. "wrangler wreckers, maxxis murderers". The bloke who runs the Birdsville recovery service had a 70 series ute and says he’s never had an issue. They’re roads are rocky as out there so that has to be a good thing.

I usually run them @ 37 PSI for road and daily dirt road driving so on this trip i had them down to 27-30 PSI most days on the faster/smooth roads and down to 23/24 PSI on the rougher roads and then again down to 21 on slower going rougher/low range roads. In the sand I had them down to 15 psi and what a difference they made.

One thing I am disappointed in overall is my ultimate suspension shocks. Earlier I posted regarding fitting of the oil shocks which did happen but hey were extremely rough once i went on my dirt road and i just couldn't bare it (neither could my 1 year old from the amount of shaking in his seat going on!). So they posted my foam cells back to me and i had them installed back on. Much happier with these, the problem was on my trip all the rocks knocked off the adjuster knobs so when I got to the sand dunes they were WAY too soft and the car was bouncing like crazy. Was very dissapointed this happened.

However... I have to give 5 stars to Brendan from Ultimate’s customer service. The outcome is ultimate will replace the shocks for me and install a stone guard. Just a massive pain as they’re 4.5 hours from my place.