Brendos 2018 Crystal Pearl 150

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Any pics of the final install of the Light bar Mate?

Cheers
Rosifumi

I tried uploading them with my comments regarding the bar the other day with no success. I will try again for you but for some reason it keeps coming up with error faults when I select post after the upload. It’s quite frustrating.

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Cheers buddy or you can email if thats easier?

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Cheers buddy or you can email if thats easier?

PM me your email address and I will send them through. Sorry for the delayed response.

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Do you know if installing Catch Can will void the warranty? I've VX 2018 as well

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Do you know if installing Catch Can will void the warranty? I've VX 2018 as well

Im not sure mate. Some people say it will other say it won’t.

I guess if the aftermarket product is the root cause of the fault your warranty will most likely be void and you will have your work cut out to prove otherwise.

I hope I never have any issues in that regard, the reason for the catch can install was to help prevent having some of those issues.

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Im not sure mate. Some people say it will other say it won’t.

I guess if the aftermarket product is the root cause of the fault your warranty will most likely be void and you will have your work cut out to prove otherwise.

I hope I never have any issues in that regard, the reason for the catch can install was to help prevent having some of those issues.

Thanks mate. Make sense, I hold on at least till next service.
I haven't done anything significant to the car yet only installed dashcam, protection film and scanguage. I am thinking to get this
http://www.rhinorack.com.au/products...1236mm-_44102b
and
http://www.rhinorack.com.au/products...-2b-7b-_43163b
I am interested to see how you installed stedi light bar on the rack.
Some possible scenarios I am looking in (not sure what is the diameter of the rhino side rail) :
https://www.stedi.com.au/35mm-to-40m...be-clamps.html
https://www.stedi.com.au/adjustable-...-brackets.html

Can I ask you why you went with +14 offset on your wheels?

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Thanks mate. Make sense, I hold on at least till next service.
I haven't done anything significant to the car yet only installed dashcam, protection film and scanguage. I am thinking to get this
http://www.rhinorack.com.au/products...1236mm-_44102b
and
http://www.rhinorack.com.au/products...-2b-7b-_43163b
I am interested to see how you installed stedi light bar on the rack.
Some possible scenarios I am looking in (not sure what is the diameter of the rhino side rail) :
https://www.stedi.com.au/35mm-to-40m...be-clamps.html
https://www.stedi.com.au/adjustable-...-brackets.html

Can I ask you why you went with +14 offset on your wheels?

Hey mate,

The rhino rack is a great system. If you are planning on loading the roof up with a bit of weight for trips/holidays, I would recommend looking into the backbone mounting system to go with the platform.

It will allow you to carry more load on the roof with this type of setup along with being a slightly lower profile than the platform in the link you attached.

Alternatively the platform in the link you attached has an easy way for removal as it mounts to the factory rails via a clamp setup and will also be a more cost effective solution.

I think you will find that the brackets you are looking into might not be suitable for mounting to the rails on the rhino rack as they are for larger diameter pipe.

It might pay to look into what rhino rack make for attaching light bars. I know of at least one type of bracket they sell.

Unfortunately I have been unable to upload my photos on here for the last few attempts so cannot provide any of my setup.

I have the Stedi ST3K single row light bar that measures 41.5” in width.

The issue I had with this size is that I couldn’t find a suitable spot to fix to the rhino platform at this width and I only wanted to mount it in the position between the underside of the rack and the roof (hence the slimline bar). I ended up fabricating brackets straight off the backbone rails to mount the light bar.

On the the plus side. I can now remove my rhino platform and still run the light bar no worries.

The reason for the +14mm offset is for a few reasons.

1. The aftermarket rims are 8.5” wide compared to the factory 7.5. If the offset was left the same the inside of the rim would have been roughly 12.5mm closer to the steering components of the car. (Very close to upper control arms)

2. I plan on putting a lift in the vehicle soon. My theory is, if you are going up you should also go out to maintain the vehicle geometry as close to standard as possible.

3. I believe anything beyond a +10 offset will put the outer edge of the rim beyond the guards of the car which will then deem you illegal.

N.B
The width of the rim will also need to be considered during this. ( if my rims were 9.5” wide the outer edge of the rim would be a further 12.5mm out and put you in the illegal territory once again.

If you would like any pics of how i mounted the light bar you are welcome to PM me your email and I will send some through.

I hope this this all makes sense and I haven’t confused you.

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Finally I have been able to upload a photo of my Stedi Light bar install.

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Finally I have been able to upload a photo of my Stedi Light bar install.

Ended up purchasing the Genuine Toyota wiring harness to wire the light bar. Had to disassemble most of the dash to install it but other than that it was simply “plug and play”. Very happy with the light output. 1Lux at 700m is pretty impressive from a single row light bar.

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Looks great mate. I have the same bar on my rack. Gets blown away by my 9 inch spotties though.

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work in progress

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Hey mate.

Thanks. I’m pretty happy with how it’s all coming along.

I picked up both of the items from gumtree.

The recovery points (road safe) were brand new and cost me $80.

The steinbauer cost me $900. Rrp is around $1700 new.

Cheers

Where did you get the SB for $900 if you don’t mind me asking?

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Where did you get the SB for $900 if you don’t mind me asking?

Hey mate,

The steinbauer was a second hand purchase. That’s why the price was only $900.

I Only removed it recently for the 10,000km service and was definitely missing the addition power that it provides.

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Hey Brendos, how did u get it so that your photo thumbnails get blown up to a larger photo. My thumbnails only to half the size of yours - do u upload them direct from PC or is it URL based photos

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Hey Brendos, how did u get it so that your photo thumbnails get blown up to a larger photo. My thumbnails only to half the size of yours - do u upload them direct from PC or is it URL based photos

Hi Tompocs,

I simply upload the required image from my smartphones photo library.

Not 100% sure as to how I am doing it though. I’m not all that tech savvy.