Installing a light bar or driving lights

[deleteruser0520]

Thankyou

[aSimpleLife]

I m8ght go for that $63 one. I mullered the plastic underneath when I did mine.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry to keep asking questions.
But is "mullered the plastic underneath" a technical term for something you meant to do that I don't understand?
Or a polite way of describing what you ended up doing...much like what happened with my first install?

And you've convinced me...I just purchased yet another light bar to try and match that curve...the $63 ebay one...they are a well reviewed supplier and the one review I could find for that product was positive...although brief.

[aSimpleLife]

What about one of these?

Well it's in and it's fantastic...a perfect fit...I can't thank you enough for the suggestion...along with Markee for his brackets.
I don't know if the lighting will be as good as the Kings one which was excellent...but frankly I don't care.
I cannot believe that it matches the curve of the bumper bar perfectly...and covers that missing broken plastic underneath the light bar...and saves me $800 for a new bumper skin just to replace the broken plastic area underneath the light bar.
It fits so well that I can notice my brackets are out by almost 2mm...but I doubt I will be bothered removing the bracket just to adjust for that.
Happy days

[ozgti]

Pic doesn't work! This is my next mod. Mullered is the technical term for having a careful go then having a smashed pav as the outcome!

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[aSimpleLife]

Pic doesn't work!

Just cultivating the anticipation ...
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...actually not sure what happened...but I was rushing it...I'll try again from a different device;

[Sunny43.5]

Nice work well done !!

[aSimpleLife]

Why thank you. That is high praise indeed coming from one of the masters of this forum. Always generous with their time and information.
I must say I am pretty happy with myself...even if I did just steal the information from other forum members.
Although it is about 1.5mm out up and down and left to right. My eye keeps getting drawn to it.
But then someone just backed into the other end of my finally recently dent free parked T5 recently and of course didn’t leave their details. So I’ve got bigger things to obsess over for the time being
Have just tried them out in the dark and they don’t look a patch on the led performance of those kings light bars that markee originally recommended and I initially fitted. Like the poor quality of that original 20” eBay light bar I had fitted.
But I am more happy with having hidden my broken plastic with the rounded frame which was the main objective.

[Markee]

Why thank you. That is high praise indeed coming from one of the masters of this forum. Always generous with their time and information.
I must say I am pretty happy with myself...even if I did just steal the information from other forum members.
Although it is about 1.5mm out up and down and left to right. My eye keeps getting drawn to it.
But then someone just backed into the other end of my finally recently dent free parked T5 recently and of course didn’t leave their details. So I’ve got bigger things to obsess over for the time being
Have just tried them out in the dark and they don’t look a patch on the led performance of those kings light bars that markee originally recommended and I initially fitted. Like the poor quality of that original 20” eBay light bar I had fitted.
But I am more happy with having hidden my broken plastic with the rounded frame which was the main objective.

Just cultivating the anticipation ...
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...actually not sure what happened...but I was rushing it...I'll try again from a different device;

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Well done mate, that looks great. Glad you pushed yourself and got the outcome you were after.
Cheers Markee

[aSimpleLife]

Thankyou. Yes it's not my natural condition to persevere with car related matters. While it's only a small thing compared to what some take on, I'm still pretty happy with myself.

[MGV]

Before there were light bars!

[david369]

Hello!

I made up a bracket to fit a STEDI lightbar to my VW T4. The number plate screws onto the front of the bracket. Here is a photo and engineering drawing for the bracket and required spacers. The bracket is quite light and certainly stiff enough using 3mm aluminium sheet. Spacers are aluminium too.

[kim]

Hi Sunny

I'm interested to install a light bar just like you've done.
Will you be able to share how you've done it.
I tried to find a youtube video, but just to try to remove the front seems like a night mare.
Thank you for your help. kim

[aSimpleLife]

Even if you don't sprichst du Deutsch, this is the video I used for the instructions to remove and refit my 2010 facelift T5 front bumper recently...and if I can do it...you should be ok.
YouTube
I would recommend taking phone pics of everything before undoing and probably even label your nuts etc as you go.
Good luck.

[Kiels3927]

even label your nuts etc as you go.

Left, right - it's that tough a job, eh?

[aSimpleLife]

Well...nuts was the collective term for all the various fasteners you remove from the various locations with this job...which a few days later...some people...like me...have trouble remembering what went where...and usually seem to end up with at least 1 spare