Light Bar

[Ozsko]

Hi Ozsko, I have never been happy with drilling holes in the dash of a new vehicle and if you read the ADR relating to the fitting of driving lights ( old and new ADR ) it states you must fit a switch to be able to turn the driving lights off.

The ADR does NOT state where that switch has to be located, so in all my vehicles for the last 15 years or so, I have mounted the switch in the engine bay, usually next to or close to the driving light relay.

BTW, I always fit an ON/OFF/ON switch. One “ON” position is wired to the Highbeam and the other “ON” position is wired straight to the battery.

I wire the switch this way so that in normal operation, turning the vehicle’s Highbeam on also turns the driving lights on, as is the normal use.

But the other “ON” position allows me to turn the driving lights on at any time, not just to be able to have the driving lights on when the ignition is off, but it also makes it much easier to aline the driving lights when you first install them.

I just find a good bit of quiet straight road, turn the vehicle’s lights off, then turn the driving lights on via the engine bay switch and adjust the driving light position to suit. This is much easier to do with the other lights turned off.

I have been fitting driving lights to cars since about 1968 so it is a familiar process but my last two cars have had such good headlights after I upgraded them with 125 watt globes in the high beams that I did not bother. I have always fitted a three way rocker switch for the same reason you outline and I definitely do not want to drill holes where I don't have too. I have found that in light misty and where I have to drive in and out of light fog and we get a lot of that where I live it can be an advantage to turn off the driving lights to prevent glare. I did a trip to SA a long time ago and the bloke on the SA fruit fly inspection came out to chat to me with his sunnies on about 2:00am in the morning, he reckoned he had never seen lights so strong on any car or truck.

[drivesafe]

No lights work in fog, especially the type of fog you get on the Illawarra escarpment.

I spent 30 years driving through that crap from 1970 to 2000 and again, no lights, not even so called FOG LIGHTS, work in that soup.

The fog is so bad there that it was the first place in Australia where they put up huge signs advising the use of hazard lights during fog events.

[Ozsko]

No lights work in fog, especially the type of fog you get there on the Illawarra escarpment.

I spent 30 years driving through that same crap for 1970 to 2000 and again, no lights, not even so called FOG LIGHTS, work in that soup.

The fog is so bad there that it was the first place in Australia where they put up huge signs advising the use of hazard lights during fog events.

We often get misty light patchy stuff but yes the heavy stuff I measure in how many lines I can see on the road, two is bad and six just go for it. Fog light are a scam, always have been and always will be as far as I am concerned. You can see from my location I am very familiar with fog and have been since I began driving fifty years ago.

[Ozsko]

Slowly getting there, Drivesafe where did you pick up the high beam signal for the relay?

[drivesafe]

Hi Ozsko, I picked up the wire near the front passenger side light assembly, but it’s too dark now to see what colour the high beam wire is.

If no one can give the colour tonight, I’ll check in the morning.

I chose that side because the relay is mounted close to the battery, for the driving light positive ( + ) supply.

[Ozsko]

We put the relay and circuit breaker in the fuse box near the battery as on my car there was room that in other models would have been taken up by something else. I found a really neat rocker switch in Jaycar that went into the blank position on the console.

[veew]

We put the relay and circuit breaker in the fuse box near the battery as on my car there was room that in other models would have been taken up by something else. I found a really neat rocker switch in Jaycar that went into the blank position on the console.

Are you able to upload a picture of your rocker switch?

[Ozsko]

IP65 Rated Mini Rocker Switch | Jaycar Electronics

I am a bit handicapped at the moment as I am operating one handed due to a hand injury and can't use my camera and the switch panel is not back in the car anyway.

[drivesafe]

H Ozsko, the high beam wire on the passenger side, is at the top of the headlight wire loom where it plugs into the headlight assembly.

The high beam wire is WHITE/BLACK or White with a Black Trace.

[Ozsko]

Thanks for the info, just confirming that you have LED headlights?

[drivesafe]

Thanks for the info, just confirming that you have LED headlights?

NO, conventionals

[Ozsko]

Thanks.

[Ozsko]

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