cheap spot lights

Petemcc · Post by **Petemcc** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:30 am

any body got any cheap spotlights for sale? of know where i could buy some. mainly for road driving i want night to be day!!!! :lol:

Cheers Pete

Armourguard · Post by **Armourguard** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:49 am

Try these there 100watts and fairly cheap

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 423462.htm

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:24 pm

yeah i got a set of them on my roof, they are ok,they have also taken a bit of damage as well

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:33 pm

I bought a set of these as well. I ended up sending them back because the chrome started to rust after 2 weeks. I found the performance was fairly average as well.

Petemcc · Post by **Petemcc** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:51 pm

i dont care wot they look like just how well they light up the road... maby im still looking then? is bigger better? i was thinking a wee bit bigger than 6 inches? what size to most people run? i know sweet stuff all about lights.

Cheers Pete

Cloggy_NZ · Post by **Cloggy_NZ** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:57 pm

Repco have a sale on spotlights at the moment. As cheap as $21.00 a pair. Bigger has got the better for any given size bulb. Round is better than rectangular.

Petemcc · Post by **Petemcc** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:24 pm

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:59 pm

Petemcc wrote:i dont care wot they look like just how well they light up the road... maby im still looking then? is bigger better? i was thinking a wee bit bigger than 6 inches? what size to most people run? i know sweet stuff all about lights.

Cheers Pete

Suprised Elmo hasnt jumped on here as he has recently put a light bar on his rig.

I too am looking at getting some spots and will look at the Repco ones sometime during the week.
Will probably go with the 4" type that have the eyeball lenses on them (less wind resistance maybee?)
Think 5 might be suffice and want to go at around 100 - 120W each.

Petemcc · Post by **Petemcc** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:41 pm

im thinking of putting two on my bull bar. dont really want any on the roof. id imagine you would have to make sure they were protected really well so that they wouldnt just get knocked off first time you go under a tree.

Pete

Cloggy_NZ · Post by **Cloggy_NZ** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:24 pm

I don't know of first hand experience, but I have read that when putting lights on the roof the reflection of the light on the bonnet can be a hindrance. Suppose the level of reflection might depend a lot on the colour and (any) gloss level remaining in your paintwork. Hence X-Engineering in the UK make a special shrouded light to avoid this.
http://www.x-eng.co.uk/X-Lite.asp?MID=43
They look to me to be the standard 12 volt halogen down lights used indoors. Should be fairly simple to replicate.

Taz · Post by **Taz** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:55 pm

I have some narva ones from repco and put some $50ish dollar bulbs in (24V) and they out do my high beams by far. Well worth the money.

kaney · Post by **kaney** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:22 pm

you may be able to have a set of mine cheap

PR · Post by PR » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:54 am

I brought 4 6" night vision ones at super cheap and only paid $200 down from $360 now have to put 24v bulbs in the and make a roof mount