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Location: North East
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Land Rover Spotlights - how do they switch?
Thinking of buying some of the Land Rover spotlights to fit to my newly acquired "A" Frame bar.
Question is - how hard are they to fit - do you need to run wire to the cabin and install a new switch ....or do they simply run off the main beam circuit - i.e you connect them in via a relay into the headlamps and they come on when you pull the stalk onto "main beam"?
Thanks for any advice from current owners of these.
7th Nov 2008 8:27 pm
Buckingham
Member Since: 08 Mar 2006
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 957
Wired on to main beam with isolator switch on the dash....
Fitting....not something I'd do myself but 10forCash would be able to.....mine were fitted by some LR technicians on the side and it took them about 5 hours!!!
7th Nov 2008 8:38 pm
TazDaz
Member Since: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 2858
10forCash fitted mine (along with the A-Bar)
Ace job considering I didn't even have the wiring loom
Wired to work with the full-beam lights via a nice proper LR switch on the dash.
7th Nov 2008 8:41 pm
dealmaker
Member Since: 05 Oct 2008
Location: North East
Posts: 149
Buckingham wrote:
Wired on to main beam with isolator switch on the dash....
Fitting....not something I'd do myself but 10forCash would be able to.....mine were fitted by some LR technicians on the side and it took them about 5 hours!!!
Thanks but I don't think 10forcash comes this far North (North East)! - I wonder if you can simpy do without the isolator switch (which is probably the most laborious part of the insatll) and simply have it switched with main beam?
7th Nov 2008 8:41 pm
Buckingham
Member Since: 08 Mar 2006
Location: Hampshire
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May be wrong, but it could be a legal requirement to be able to isolate....
7th Nov 2008 8:45 pm
wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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Dont know about the legal side either , but yes you can wire them through the main beam and a relay ..save you getting a wire into the cab .
Someone has a small wiring diagram they knocked up ..but i cant for the life of me find it at the momentG4 Gone ...but not forgotten
7th Nov 2008 8:49 pm
DG Site Moderator
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Bucks is right ...Construction and Use regs require a dash switch 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
7th Nov 2008 8:50 pm
ayrshiredisco
Member Since: 16 Aug 2008
Location: Ayr
Posts: 619
Hi, if you check my gallery then you'll see how i wired mine in through my high beam lights and also how the rest of the setup is doneIf in doubt............flat out.
Buck blue with mantec, abar, roolights and some of uncle rays finest
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dark silver mini cooper s
....don't think 10forcash comes this far North (North East)!
I wouldn't rule it out, have you asked him?The End
7th Nov 2008 9:15 pm
Buckingham
Member Since: 08 Mar 2006
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 957
DG wrote:
Bucks is right ...
First time for everything
7th Nov 2008 9:40 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
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Location: Newbury
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mine are wired straight into the main beam and it's been MOT'd that way...and theeeeennn......???
7th Nov 2008 9:54 pm
dealmaker
Member Since: 05 Oct 2008
Location: North East
Posts: 149
Thansk guys - I iwll ask my local stealer how much they will charge to do it "both" ways!
7th Nov 2008 10:02 pm
Popelka
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Location: Praha (Prague)
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Buckingham wrote:
fitted by some LR technicians on the side and it took them about 5 hours!!!
5 hours
THEM (more than 1 person)
for lamps and wiring, you have got to be Experience is a difficult teacher, because she gives the test first and then the lesson afterwards!!!!
The full LR kit includes the button you can see in this image just above the indicator stalk.
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8th Nov 2008 11:07 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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To do it the Land Rover way is quite involved. I fitted my own lights, and it took me a day to fit the mountings, and another to wire them up.
Hardest bit was getting the green plug out of the CJB to fit a wire to it. It needs a 'magic' wand to remove it.
No doubt if I did it again, I would be quicker.
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