Bonnet Bar by Roverbones RRC, D1, P38 & D2

fishEH

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Save yourself $200 and just do this:
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Blue

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Mar 26, 2004
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seventyfive said:
Kyle,
I look to the jeep/yota crowd more than I do to the rover crowd for no nonsense parts that work, poison spyder has more innovation than most rover companies, but this bar is not a good idea. It's like the jeep light bars at the windshield cowling, it doesn't put the light where you need it.
Most of us like 30-50 feet of flood around the perimeter, because we are doing a whopping 2 mph thru rocks. Pencil beams, driving beams, and spots are great if I'm running an endurance race in a car, but they are useless for us....except you guys out west with desert and flat spots where you can run fast. Maybe that's why this bar may be good for out west.

I personally make fun of guys with roof racks lined with spot beams...a roof rack is nothing more than a $800 light bar for lights you never use. This light bar would be a good idea if it was mounted to the front bumper, but at the windshield where most of the potential light gets reflected off the bonnet is not a good idea.
Even if you black out the bonnet you are then absorbing the light.
This bar is not a good idea, it has potential as a bumper mounted crawler light set up though.....but I already spent $39 for a poison Spyder fairlead mount.

This was my point exactly....what the hell are you screwing lights into your hood for? All you're doing is illuminating the hood plus all that light washing around the truck with the truck creating a giant shadow. Put the lights up front so they can illuminate the area ahead and around you. Some people mount lights forward on the hood or on top of a brush bar for the "I like to stare at the back of Mickey Mouse's Head" look.