Hi

think I have found a roofrack for Xazu - but it looks HUGE. Anyone got a photo of a Badrol GU (year 1999/2000) with a roofrack they could share with me?

Thanks
Marina

ps after that I want 2 or 4 driving lights on it, I am not planning on doing night drives, but need a bit more light should we be delayed in the desert on a trip and I end up leading a convoy off the sand in the dark. Any ideas for inexpensive lights?

Marina, check with JC he just had some light on his car but don't know how much did it cost him

The old school Patrols came with 6-inch PIAA round lights on the bull bar - you can find old ones in scrap yards and accessories shops, and if you swap in new bulbs you got yourself cheap spotlights. I think I put 100W bulbs in mine. They are big and heavy, BTW, not like the newer lights, but they cost 50 Dirhams each 8)

Here's them up on the Jeeper Eater:



and they are the three central ones on Rhino:



The outer 4 were headlights off a scrap Jaguar - the advantage of those is the beam is nice and wide, and if you point them out to the sides, you don't get that tunnel-vision effect where directly in front of you it's all lit up, but just one metre to the sides it's pitch black... I find navigating dunes at night requires more side vision than the kind of spot lights that are useful on fast hard tracks.

See how the front is curved, so the Jaguar lights on both ends point several degrees to the side? It was a great set-up... let me see if I can find a pic of the illumination pattern.



Here we go - look for how much wider the pattern goes:

BEFORE:


AFTER:


Also, while you're there - extra reverse lights are excellent! I often would reverse out of a difficult situation into an even worse one! LOL So a pair of simple truck reverse lights pointing backwards make a big difference when out in the dark.

Thanks PR. We think we will forgo the new off the shelf rack and get one of these made. Even discovered where the scrap yard road was in Saniya the other night!

Why not look in the scrap yard ....you never knwo you might just find a used rack for a song