Despite having upgraded the bulbs in my "projector" lights I'm still not happy. I'm now considering a couple of powerful driving lamps mounted on the front. I have in mind something like these :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cibie-Inch-Spot-La...amp;sr=8-2

The front end of the FL2 doesn't seem to offer much in the way of a suitably strong mounting for large heavy auxiliary lights. Has anyone successfully found a way to do this? If so, how? I've not managed to find a purpose made lamp bar for the FL2 and :

- I don't want to stick them on the roof or the bonnet;
- the bumper mounted "pods" I've seen are ghastly.

Also, how did you wire them onto the headlamp circuits?

Regards,

Geoff The map is not the territory

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geoff i dont think the bumper would be strong enough to support these lamps and if it was you would have to put some sort of support to stop the lamps shaking about. i know it may be a dear way round have you thought of having hid fitted by your dealer or finding a scrap freelander with hid fitted  rainy-city
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bigalf1961 wrote:

geoff i dont think the bumper would be strong enough to support these lamps and if it was you would have to put some sort of support to stop the lamps shaking about. i know it may be a dear way round have you thought of having hid fitted by your dealer or finding a scrap freelander with hid fitted

I fear that you are right about the bumper. It seems pretty flimsy. Any light bar would need to be attached to something a lot more substantial.

If all else fails, I may have to go down the HID route (but I have a weakness for big auxiliary lights stemming from my distant club-rallying past)

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saw one on the bay of Es that fitted under the front grill or you you could get a custom one made up.

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other than the roof or a roof rail / rack, the only way i can see is to find a stronger mounting point behind the bumper, and run some sort of bracket through a cut out in the bumper.
It will probably mean alot of work and a specially made bracket.
There are a couple of people on the "off road" section that are starting to make their own parts so maybe worth asking them.

Good point, the thing i miss about the Defender is that over the years I had various Hella and KC daylighter driving lamps fitted to the a frame ? is there a variant of the Freelander Bumper Styling kit that has light brackets, I would have thought that long distance lights were a must for parts of Australia and the USA. 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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I looked in to this a while back, even lookrd at using the Disco 4 spots, but got no where with it. as you say theres no where to fasten them to on the bumper. I upgraded the bulbs with Osram Nightbreaker plus which seems to have improved thing, but I have a 07 model which are non projector

Geoff

I have been looking at adding additional driving lights myself and the only option I have come up with so far as regards mounting them is to fit an EU approved Front Protection System and there are a couple of 'A' Frame types which might support larger lights and which are claimed to meet the EU requirement.

Haven't got round to doing anything about it yet though.

Neil

Geoff,

In the Hella Catalogue - http://www.hella.com/ePaper/Offroad2011/EN_UK/index.html - on page 10-11 you can see a Freelander 2 with additional headlights mounted. I think it's worth a try to ask directly at Hella about them and how they mounted it.

Hope it helps

Mihai

Don't bother buying spotlights unless they are Lightforce genuine spots, the best spot lights money can buy. They don't rust and they are super bright

http://www.devon4x4.com/index.php?page=sho...;Itemid=14

Must admit that the spots looked photoshopped on the FL2 in the catalogue, I think it's showing the look rather than the fix.

EYorkshire wrote:

Must admit that the spots looked photoshopped on the FL2 in the catalogue, I think it's showing the look rather than the fix.

That.s the first thing i thought Dave

I'm happy with the uprated bulbs at the moment,but will keep an eye out for something that works and looks right

+1 on the Lightforce lamps. I had them on my Defender and they were awsome! I had the 170 lamps which were incredibly bright so God knows what the 240s are like. They are virtually indistructable, don't rust (polycarbonate) adjustable for beam pattern and the big bonus is that they weigh very little.

Here they are on my Defender

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Awesome JST, i had the 240`s and they were amazing! here is a pic...


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