While I'm fairly good at searching on this Forum, the Advanced search is pretty basic. I give this lame excuse in case I missed something. Anyway, has any one installed rear spotlights/lights onto their rack? I have the "reverse" lights from PowerfulUK. I'm looking for some to put on the rack so when I'm overlanding I can turn them on while cooking/camping. Yeah I know the battery will drain, so I'm likely only to do it while parked/on/yada yada yada. What I'm looking for is not advice whether to do it or not, but hoping someone already has so they can point me to the thread or show some pics of how they wired it, routed it, etc.

Thanks for any and all help!

 

https://landroverforums.com/forum/20...lution-105438/

 

Here is a set of Rigid chase lights installed. Multiple color lights, strobe and reverse light integration. They fit really well under the rack.

 

@sarek - Did you route the same way as the earlier thread? Any words of warning?

 

Since this thread, I've installed rear lights. However, I likely "under-engineered" it. They are starting to get sketchy. Randomly while driving they would turn on. Not wanting to get shot, into road rage with someone or arrested, I just unplugged my set up pending a search for the offending short. In the meanwhile - resurrecting this thread. Anyone run rear lights? How did you go? I went up the A-pillar, along the roof seam, thru the rack and back there. I likely used too light of cable to get thru the A-pillar. Any insights, pics, heckling, heck - anything worth information or humor is open.

 

Hope this helps

 

VERY nice! Thanks. I'm thinking you routed up the a-pillar? How did that go? Got any shots (I'm sure you do....)

 

This is were the installer made a mistake. I asked them to use the rear plastic piece over the rear door and they went in through the roof. To say that I was more than livid with what they did is an understatement. I had shown them pictures and physically pointed out where I wanted to the cables installed And since the installer was doing multiple things on different vehicles “ he is the store manager” he forgot. I did get a lifetime warranty in writing from them. If I had any leaks, they would fix the damage of the interior and reseal everything for the life of the vehicle. And I plan to keep it for at least 20 years. The peace right in front of the camera and the Deutsche connector is plastic, and there is several different size grommets that you can use to power in through there and still keep the shell waterproof. I cannot take credit for this idea. I got it from a mate in Australia. His name is Anthony Palmer.

 

Wow! I can quite imagine your anguish on that. I would have done the same. Kudos to them for the "warranty". That would definitely make me a bit more acceptant (as long as they were in business). For some weird reason, doing that thru the D-pillar would be totally ok for me, not the roof. I appreciate the insights, but for obvious reasons I'll stay away from that approach<g>. My warranty isn't worth sasquatch.