jethro

I was wondering what are some good lights to put mount on a roof rack? I want to mount two of them, anyone have any suggestions? A place to buy from and a price would be helpful too. Thanks.

fooddude

i got some kc daylighters from summitracing for around 75$ for a pair of em.

Cebby

Any driving or long range lights would work up there.

PIAA
Hella
IPF
Lightforce
Warn
KC

And many others.

You can go to ANY web retailer of 4WD products and search for lighting and find more choices than you'll know what to do with.

Lastly, do a on roof rack lighting. This subject comes up quite a bit.

The search button is your friend.

doink

hella 500s are solid at about 70 bux a pair. like cebby said, check out websites for 4wd's. in this instance, google is your friend...

jacksonpt

As said, any type of long range light will work well up there. I've got 4 Hella 500s on my rack, and I love them. However, I think 2 500s tend to look like mickey mouse ears. IMO, if you're going with 2 lights, go with rectangular ones, not round ones. The rectangular version of the Hella 500 is the Hella 550. IMO, Hella gives you the best bang for your buck - good performance, good build quality, good price. I get most of my stuff from 4x4connection.com. They are located in Va, so shipping to the east coast (where I live) is a lot faster than from CA.

turboale

What rack do you have? Like Jack Ive got 4 500 (driving) and they are great. There are several mounting options, that why i ask what rack you have. If you have the load worrior, if you get the yakima light mounts you can fit the hella 550s (the square ones) under the mount. They fit behind the farring and will not effect your milage anymore than its already ruined. Not to mention make less noise. But if you don't have a yakima... forget what I just said!

jethro

I have a Con-Ferr rack. From what everyone says the Hella 500's are the way to go. I dont really understand the difference between the driving and fog ones, but I'll just get the driving one.
Thanks a lot for everyone help.

doink

to sum it up...driving lights go farther and the beem is more narrow. fogs cover a wider area, but dont go as far. ( i think)

jacksonpt

Doink is basically right. Driving lights are kind of like highbeams. They throw a longer beam to lightup the road ahead. But the beam is very narrow, so they aren't much help lighting up the sides of the road. They are generally meant to be used in good weather, when you are the only one on the road, at relatively high speeds. Fog lights are meant to be used to supplement your low beam lights. They offer a very short, very wide beam, and are meant to be mounted low so they reflect less off of bad weather (rain, snow, fog, etc).

Basically, if you want lights to help you in the bad weather, get fogs, and mount them as low as possible. If you want lights to help you see down the road, get driving lights and mount them anywhere. If you want more light on the trail at night, get fog lights and mount them to the sides of the rack and mount them down, so they shine very close the rig/trail. I only know one or two people who have done this (aux lights on the trail are hard to use without blinding everyone else on the trail).

Breezey

Here's my setup:



I spent about 130 on the roof rack and about 50/set per hella's..

Now for wiring , the trick is use power cord from like home depo.. dont get the chest stuff, get something thats like 30amp or so.. should be under 20.00 for 50 feet..