Install Sunyee Cree 126W light bar - SG II Forester

Thanks for putting me on to it, PS. It appears to be an excellent product.

Hopefully what I have discovered and worked out will be of some benefit to you and others who are in the same position as we are/were.

And thanks for the nice words, too :).
 
Well done.
What brand and where from is the bar please?
As I have already 3 driving lights, 2X 55 watt and 1X 100 watt, installed and working in conjunction with the high beams, Narva +120`s, I should be able to connect straight from the existing DL relay, 30 amp fused, to the new bar with minimum mods?
Assuming I can find somewhere to mount it.
Be able to see at night then.
 
sunyee are the eBay sellers several others have bought & been very happy with. I have several of their lightbars saved in my watch list! This one is top of my list lol:
144W 23inch Lightbar - sunyee | eBay

Ateday, yes just use your current (pardon the pun :raspberry:) relay. RBs trouble was working out how best to wire up the relay in the first place, you've already done that part :biggrin:
 
facing backwards to deter tailgaters.
 
It really is finished!

While grovelling under the dash to put the light bar switching wires through the grommet between the clutch and brake master cylinders, I think I might have discovered some switch blocks in behind the internal fuse block that might, just might, be the phantom light stalk terminating connectors. By this stage, I really couldn't give a rat's **** what they are!

I also fed the UHF aerial in the other direction to where I still have to make a permanent mount for the Oricom unit under the fog and driving light switches.

All the wires have been run, armoured where necessary (almost everywhere ...), insulation tape around all joins, zip locks around everything, etc, etc, etc ...

I have also very roughly aligned the beam of the light bar vertically - spirit level on the paving, then across the front of the light vertically ...

Put the grill in, and made up a new piece that attaches the front/top radiator support bar to the top of the grill.

Bunnings sell a really, really tough ribbed plasticised sheet 1m wide - $21.95 p.m. . I made this out of that.

I will also make a rear bumper protector, side shield from the bull bar to the radiator, under guards for the side from the bull bar to the mudguard liners, bottom fill piece from the rear/bottom of the bull bar to in front of the sump guard.

NachaLuva said:
Ateday, yes just use your current (pardon the pun :raspberry:) relay. RBs trouble was working out how best to wire up the relay in the first place, you've already done that part :biggrin:
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The relay that came with the one I bought is weird. I know that now. However, so is the wiring in my model car ...

ateday said:
Must be nuts but I just ordered one.
Now where the hell will I fit it?????
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Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) strikes again ...

idw said:
facing backwards to deter tailgaters.
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Yeah ... Unfortunately just a little, tiny bit illegal.

Now to finish the coffee I started at around 1300H, and go a get some cat meat and stuff at Woollies ...

Photos later ...
 
Coming back from Woollies, it was starting to get dark. Geez the light bar lights up the countryside!
 
^ haha.

Ours are watch cats, they say the same thing about humans ... :poke: :iconwink: :lol:
 
^ accepted.

I feel very angry when confronted with irresponsible cat owners. I feel the same about the same kind of person with their dogs, or children ...

The introduction of the dingo into Oz was a huge environmental disaster. Far worse than rabbits, starlings, sparrows and cane toads put together. None of us humans stands blameless in many of these things. Look at that idiocy engaged in by Johnny Depp!

Having said that, our cats are inside cats. They only go outside 100% supervised, and wearing a harness and lead with a tennis ball attached.
 
Confession...
I agree with you, it is usually the owner, not the cat.
We, too, possess a cat.
Owned by my partner long before we met.
We try to keep her indoors as much as possible but, being slightly feral, she knocks me over and escapes sometimes much to my disgust and annoyance.
I think a large cowbell attached to her collar is the go.
 
Back to light bars ... :lol:.

Some silly old fart loosened off the eight adjustment Allen key bolts so that he could fully tighten the adjustment bracket bolts.

Getting at these bracket bolts requires rotating the bar as fully as possible ...

Having done that, said SOFA member then thought it would be a good idea to tighten the adjustment bolts fully - they were previously just tightened sufficiently to just hold the bar in position, but still adjustable. Because they are very hard to get at, this took about 45 minutes ...

That evening (night before last), said SOF decides to test the light bar, only to find that the light hit the ground about 50m in front of the car ... :lol: ... bugger!

So yesterday I slackened off all 8 adjustment bolts. Took the car out in the street after nightfall and adjusted the light bar. Then locked just two of the adjustment bolts in that position. I have worked out that it is relativelt easy using a 3/8" drive ratchet handle, 3/8 to 1/4 adapter, short extension bar, 1/4" hex socket plus an Allen key from my security screwdriver set!

The street is only a bit over 200m long, but the light bar lights it up like a small bomb!

Actually, it did much the same when totally out of adjustment, so it appears that precise adjustment is not all that critical ...

I took photos ... :ebiggrin:.
 
^ Will try to lift my weary bones and upload from camera to PC to web later today.

The huge difference is in side illumination and also colour temperature. The standard headlights have a colour temperature of around 4,000K (same as most tungsten lights - very yellow), but the light bar LEDs are 6,500K, same as bright sunlight. Unlike Xenon HID lights, I doubt very much that LEDs output much, if any, UV light.

I will also break this thread up into products/purchasing decisions and installation trials, tribulations and success (:poke: :ebiggrin: :biggrin:), as they are really two very different topics.
 
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