So due to our annual night drive to the south of France in a few weeks.
I had decided to fit an led light bar to light up the dark motorways in central France.
After doing a few searchs and not realy finding what I was looking for I went at this a bit blind and decided
to incert the bar in my grill, I did spend the first 20 years of my working career in the car industry so am well acquainted with a panel hammer and a spanner.

Very well done sir.

I like it very much.

cheers

tidy work but you don't really need any aux lighting as the oe xenon should be sufficient... ... - .- -.




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I have to agree the xenon lights are extremely good on there own and have recently put new bulbs in these as well, as
I was starting to get faults on the dash for them every now and then.
And with the LED bar as well the road lights up like a Christmas tree

Neat job 👍

Holy sh*t that's bright. The Autoroute can be a dark and dangerous place at night so I think this is a good move. Nice install too and if/when you need to sell you will pick a grill up cheap as chips.

Be interested how you wired and switched this  Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

Where did you get the lightbar?

I did a similar thing on my old L322. I can't seem to find many pics of it now. Initially I tried to cut down the original grille as in the first pic and then got a new replacement mesh style one (mainly as it hid the ambers better). Yours looks great, much better than mine did. Wife has told me I can't do this on the new one I am picking up on Friday though :'(

Here are the answers to the couple of questions people asked

The light bar can be found Here

The wiring loom from Here

The timer relay Here

As for the wiring it was wired in the normal way with the loom and all I did was replace the rocker switch on the loom with the timer relay . At the point of switch power ON (I used the live feed to the hight beam for this), the timer delay starts . Upon expiry of the time between 1 and 50 sec the relay turns ON and remain in this position until power is switched OFF. At the point of switch off, the timer resets, ready for the next operation.

Hope this helps

I have a couple of 6inch light bars fitted low down either side of the numberplate, both aimed to the side for off road illumination, also put one at the back wired to the reversing lights. These are very cheap, about 4 pounds each

WHY!?

*That was rhetorical. No answer needed, 

Low-wattage LED lights can be left on for extended periods of time without draining or killing the battery, making them perfect rock lights for low-speed wheeling and night time trail repairs. The stock reversing lights we know are woeful, having to rely on them backing up on a tricky track is no fun where a cheap light overcomes this shortfall. 2007 TDV8 VSE
2003 TD6 gone.
2002 P38a gone
1999 P38a gone
1997 p38a gone
1993 VSE gone
1992 VSE gone
1966 Series 2a with V8 conversion gone

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I was gifted one of these light bars that seem to be on nearly every 4x4 over here in Aus. Not wanting to cut anything or make obvious holes I had a play today and made up a couple of brackets bolted to the slam panel behind the grill. All fitted and working but could come off in 15mins with no signs it was ever there. I already have an aux fusebox under the bonnet with a relay switched feed that comes on with the main beam so was a very simple job to connect. Not sure if I will leave it on or just fit when I am out in the wilds.