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I bought a new Platinum and I'm trying to figure out how to mount some additional lights on it. I drive too many dark roads hauling horses with cows wandering the road on Open grazing or just deer and elk . So I want to light up the road when I drive these areas.
I really don't want to put on a light bar or ranch hand. And I'm not too excited about spending $300 for a bracket to relocated my ACC. I would prefer something that does not protrude out front. Something like a curved bar that kinda matches either the grill or bumper.
I guess cutting out some of the grill and fab'ing up some brackets to mount a light bar is an option.
Just looking for ideas if any of you have done this. Post some photos.
Putco makes a thin black light bar that blends into the lower part of the grill. Not sure of the thread title but someone put up pics of one installed.
To me, LED bars have always been off road, slow go, flood lights to me. Even the "driving" beam ones might not impress you. And LED's seem to reflect off snow more than halogen.
I like lights with a lot of throw, and less spill near the nose of the truck, which ruins my nightvision a bit too much. (I never recommend having the OEM fog lights on at hwy speeds for example) I think my contacts make me even more sensitive to it.
I'd rather have a simple prerunner bar to fit regular lights with more throw. I'm in psycho deer country. FYRLYT's rule here. Nightforce has some nice lights as well, if you need a tighter beam only (snow and psycho deer). The further out the lights are, the less grill airflow they mess up. No way am I going to plug any part of my grill. LOLz.
Randy Ellis bar:
It's exactly what you didn't want, but it's what I'd recommend.
Randy Ellis bar:
It's exactly what you didn't want, but it's what I'd recommend.
Thanks, I appreciate the suggestions.
I'm lazy enough that I still like driving through an auto car wash. And would prefer to keep any extra lights tight to the front so the brushes don't tear them off.
And my truck is long enough. Even when I get nosed into a parking stall, My rear bumper is still hanging out. So I'd prefer not to make the truck any longer. I've also, only got about 4" to spare in the garage. You start adding a Bar or fusion bumper etc and I'm not getting my garage door shut.
I've also got the front-facing camera. A bib light on the bumper or added a bar will just block the camera.
I saw the Putco light photo somewhere, And can't remember what thread it was in. But that is the look that I'm working towards.
I'd take a look at some of ProjectLM's stuff. I think the 42" curved is about the right size, and should look pretty good.
Just looks like a lot of hype to me. I couldn't find any specs on the light output. And like it was pointed out above the LED light bars don't project as much light out far in front of you. I have both and the HID round lights definitely shine further up the road, the light bar floods the near ground.
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