I'm interested in purchasing a set of driving lights for my TF Visited two wreckers both gave me the price of $300-$400 each!!!
Am I being taken on a ride?

only if there very very good quality paras other wise yes thats to steep for normal second hand lights. theres been ppl on here lucky enough to get para for 300 for both

Yeah that is a normal price sadly enough. You can usually get them for round $450ish new though.

Try and see if anyone on here has any they want to sell first.

I have these for sale..

http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33904

Will only take you a small effort to mount them..


Way less than $400..:P

There are some for sale on ebay, not even close to $400.

The lamps you are looking at are not driving lights - they are fog lights - they can be modified to work 'kinda' like driving lamps by removing the internal shield BUT they need to be reaimed, and are pretty low as not to work well anyways.

If you want *driving* lamps - EGO has a decent looking set of Narva's - these are a knock off of the ubiquitous Hella 181 - a great driving light for their size. They will take a 100W H3 easy...

BUT they need to be mounted at roughly the same level as your headlamps to work well - one of those 'Nudge bar' driving lamp mounts that sits where your number plate is great for this. You have roughly 300M of extra light - only use these when you would your highbeams (to be legal, you wire up a relay to your highbeams which MUST have a switch to turn it off and also illuminate when the driving lights are on).

If you do a lot of country driving with parabolics, you quickly discover that the highbeams are a really $hit long distance pattern (darn US DOT headlamps)...

Cheers
Heath Young

Hi.

I live out in the sticks, and quickly decided that my TJ's standard headlights
could stand improvement. Fitted Narva "Plus" series bulbs (or Phillips, I don't remember),
to both the high beam and high/low beams.

Good improvement, but still not enough.....so I decided to fit driving lights. The
TJ doesn't have a solid mounting point for driving lights, alas.

I fitted a "proper" nudge bar, and a pair of Nightstalker driving lights from Supercheap.
Got the wiring done at the local car servicing place - they charged me an hour's labour.

They work great. I wouldn't go back to driving without them. However I do intend
to replace them with with Lightforce ones. When the wife's not looking, that is. She will
think up something she regards as more important to spend money on......(food, clothes,
bills.........)

But yes, driving lights make a huge difference. Unlike the fog-lights, which in my
humble opinion are a marketing/appearance gimmick.

Regards,

Hi.

I live out in the sticks, and quickly decided that my TJ's standard headlights
could stand improvement. Fitted Narva "Plus" series bulbs (or Phillips, I don't remember),
to both the high beam and high/low beams.

Good improvement, but still not enough.....so I decided to fit driving lights. The
TJ doesn't have a solid mounting point for driving lights, alas.

I fitted a "proper" nudge bar, and a pair of Nightstalker driving lights from Supercheap.
Got the wiring done at the local car servicing place - they charged me an hour's labour.

They work great. I wouldn't go back to driving without them. However I do intend
to replace them with with Lightforce ones. When the wife's not looking, that is. She will
think up something she regards as more important to spend money on......(food, clothes,
bills.........)

But yes, driving lights make a huge difference. Unlike the fog-lights, which in my
humble opinion are a marketing/appearance gimmick.

Regards,


i live out in the sticks as well ... which part do you live in ?

on the thread topic ... i just installed driving lights in my car and i am more than pleased with them, i even put the vereada switch in as well ... might as well do it properly :)

i live out in the sticks as well ... which part do you live in ?

on the thread topic ... i just installed driving lights in my car and i am more than pleased with them, i even put the vereada switch in as well ... might as well do it properly :)
S
ounds like you solved the problem you had. Was it hard to put the verada stalk in? Does it make the foggies light in the instrument cluster light up? I'd really love to do the same, just need to find one at a reasonable price.

S
ounds like you solved the problem you had. Was it hard to put the verada stalk in? Does it make the foggies light in the instrument cluster light up? I'd really love to do the same, just need to find one at a reasonable price.


took about 30 mins to install ... no ligt in the dash though but i did install a LED so if the lights are on the LED is on ... come up very tidy and works a treat :)

there's a stalk on ebay at the moment

they sell new 4 about 280 ea

Colgate can I ask if the car's wiring loom up to the Verada stalk you installed already had the wires & terminals for the foglights? If so, did they run all the way back to the relay housing?

And what do you mean by installing an LED? Did you put in a whole new one of your own or did you just put a bulb in behind the foglight indicator in the dashboard?

Thanks!

I just found some standard bar lights for a te-tj in a bar down the back, one call and they were sold, $150 a pair, so ya can get the standard bar lights cheapish

the car had no wiring in it for foglights ... i had t run the wire and put in a relay

i did'nt know the car had a foglight lamp in the dash therwise i would have done that

i just put in a led in the lower dash so it comes n when the lights are on

cool - thanks for the quick reply :)