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| alantd Member Since: 14 Dec 2008 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 1513   
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Really?
If you go in through the intake hole in the wing you'll have to drill an exit hole from the intake plastic (if that makes sense)  I know they're not very well sealed anyway but that'll surely introduce more problems.
Also - are you suggesting routing the wires down the inside of the snorkel? Surely the best thing would be to keep the wires outside, but attached to, the snorkel and then trace them across the top of the wing in the corner and straight under the bonnet. I know it won't look as neat but surely better than drilling more holes in the intake. Failing that, in through the roof, under the headlining and down a pillar. (I've not tried to remove and reattach the headlining so I can't say how difficult that is). Confused. One that started out as a 2.4 TDCi 110 XS + New Defender 110 First Edition |
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14th Apr 2010 6:09am |
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| BigRuss Member Since: 15 May 2010 Location: Norfolk Posts: 2785 
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Is it not that all light mounted more than 1.4 metres above the ground level are not to be used on public roads?
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27th May 2010 6:04pm |
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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5038 
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No - not if spot lights and with warning indication in the dash and able to be turned off so not as to dazzel Mike |
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28th May 2010 3:41pm |
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| AG4110 Member Since: 25 Apr 2010 Location: Lincs Posts: 7 
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When wiring in the lights on my 02 G4 110 to restore back to original, I ran all the wires through the inside of the snorkle using an industrial wiring gland, then fitted wiring connectors to connect the roof lights to. The loom came out just below the mushroom top facing rearwards. I had to take it apart again though after finding one of the gland grommets on the floor when I was crimping the top wiring plugs on.
This enabled the roofrack to be removed without having to cut the loom again, unlike how Land Rover did it originally. Roof mounted lights must be able to be switched off with vehicle main beam to avoid dazzling oncoming traffic. There a few vehicles that you can specify rooflights on from new - Nissan X-trail, Honda CRV and artic tractor units.  Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge UK lighting regs are availbale off the UK gov site. There are 2 parts Road Vehicle lighting Regs 1989 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si1989/Uksi_19891796_en_1.htm#end Road Vehicle lighting Regs Amended 2005 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/uksi_20053169_en.pdf Adrian Adrian 2007 D110 G4 XS Utility 2003 D110 G4 (sold) 1997 Disco 300Tdi (sold) 1987 D90 CSW (sold) |
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1st Jun 2010 10:40pm |
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| fekete Member Since: 24 Dec 2008 Location: Here on the other end of the computer Posts: 3626 
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That looks a neat job
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1st Jun 2010 10:44pm |
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| Eduardo Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: Región Metropolitana Posts: 2110  
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So much cables to install 4 lamps? Looks like the back of my old desktop computer. By the way, putting all this cables inside the snorkel will reduce the airflow mass? Cheers Eduardo MY 2007 110 SW PUMA 2.4: Big Fog of 64' MY 1994 Jayco 1207 Folding camper: "El Tremendo" Click image to enlarge |
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1st Jun 2010 10:51pm |
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| AG4110 Member Since: 25 Apr 2010 Location: Lincs Posts: 7
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It did tend to get in the way a bit. Adrian
2007 D110 G4 XS Utility 2003 D110 G4 (sold) 1997 Disco 300Tdi (sold) 1987 D90 CSW (sold) |
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1st Jun 2010 11:00pm |
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| AG4110 Member Since: 25 Apr 2010 Location: Lincs Posts: 7
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The lights are wired as an inner and outer pair switched using 2 warn switches. The lamps are are also fitted with dip and main beam facility. Earths were taken back down to the battery. The wires inside the snorkle did not have an apparent effect on performance or economy. Adrian 2007 D110 G4 XS Utility 2003 D110 G4 (sold) 1997 Disco 300Tdi (sold) 1987 D90 CSW (sold) |
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1st Jun 2010 11:06pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610 
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AG4110,
Please, please don't take this the wrong way, but as an aircraft electrician for over three decades I would not have been in such a rush to post such a wiring abomination for public viewing. I've seen fewer cables at an electrical sub-station hooked up to the National Grid, it looks like something out of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The quick-release connector was a good idea to facilitate removal but the rest??? Too overcomplicated with the switching options hence the need for more and more cables in my opinion. What on earth were you thinking? Bullet proof it certainly is!
Apart from the extra half a ton of weight of copper core cable it's lugging around...
I may have misinterpreted the rules but as dipped beams have a maximum permissable fitment height of 1.2metres that would render them the same as my 240XGTs on the public road (with 100watt filaments) as inoperable according to the guidelines! If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!! Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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1st Jun 2010 11:16pm |
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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5038
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Give him credit - it looks like mid job 
I think you might be right on Dipped - Main beam DOSENT apply, but dipped ive never looked at Mike |
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2nd Jun 2010 2:39pm |
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| Glynparry25 Member Since: 16 Feb 2009 Location: Miserable Midlands Posts: 3015  
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I really have been missing out on all the hot topics whilst I have been away!!
Mal, you sure do have a way with words..... a certain level of brutality....but being a RADAR/ Electronics technician myself, that install is waaaaaaayyyyyy over engineered. When I will be fitting mine I will have a maximum of two dual core cables routing up..... connector blocks on the back of the lights. Legally, you have to have a master switch, indicator on your dash and only work on main beam. Glyn  |
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2nd Jun 2010 2:57pm |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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Dont forget Warns have a Hi Lo feature so three connections per lamp
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2nd Jun 2010 3:11pm |
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| Glynparry25 Member Since: 16 Feb 2009 Location: Miserable Midlands Posts: 3015
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Hi, Lo as in Main/ Dip? What is the point, other than it being illegal to have dip beam so high up, to have it so that it wouldn't dazzle oncoming drivers it would only be lighting up your bonnet? Glyn |
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2nd Jun 2010 3:39pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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Hello Glyn, To me 'a spade's a spade' and I say it like it is...Hence the reason I'm still 'a Chief Tech!' No regrets though and I did say I hope he didn't take it the wrong way...I will also bend over backwards to assist people if I can, or come up with a suitable resolution. The lights needing three cables each doesn't mean you have to run 12 down the snorkel. The dipped/main feature of the lights are immaterial as Glyn said. So realistically you could have binned the dip feature and the selective pair switching and got away with a single two core cable and parallelled off either at the rack with blocks or looped the supply at a suitable quick release connector with sufficient contact pins/sockets. If a suitable earth could be sourced/made 'up top' you could even get away with a single cable. I found the pictures a right laugh truth be told!! 
 If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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2nd Jun 2010 4:02pm |
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