Fitting light guards to your FFRR? .
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Yuk! nonononononononononononononononononononononononononononono!




Craig

That's a no then Craig?  .
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Not unless you really had to. (e.g- your life depended on it)

I personally think they look terrible.......each to their own though ! Stolen / Gone: 2006MY Supercharged LPG Autobiography - Zambezi Silver with Sand/Jet/Jet Oxford Leather.....

Worse when they are aftermarket chrome ones!

they dont really protect against anything in reality ... if you hit something that will brussh off the guard, the light itself would have been able to handle the same anyway.

If you hit something proper, the guard often just pushes straight into the light - breaking it ... the same was what would have happened if you didn't have the guard!

( at least that was my experience on the defender! ) V8 or else ...

The expense of replacing cracked lenses is enough to make me want to put light guards on this one too, especially if you have the clear and SC all clear lenses. If you have LEDs, god help you if you need new ones! And that's just the rears, can you imagine how expensive a front LED with Adaptive bi-xenons is going to cost?

OUCH!

They are dead easy to fit, I documented the procedure as the instructions are a bit arse-about-face.

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There are no light guards for the 2010-on front lights.

My only issue with the guards is that whilst they save the lights from moderate impacts, anything heavier risks creasing the panel itself where they attach.

Light guards = steaming pile !

no way!

makes a Range Rover look like a sodding geek

and it lowers their value - no way would I buy one with light guards fitted,

the only time they look half decent is the bar type on a RR Classic, the new vehicles are too streamlined for them

No unless you are really off-roading but then use poly-carbonate over the top of the guard. For example my FFRR has a brush guard (I would never ever had installed one but it was on and taking it off would expose the holes drilled in the front fenders to install the bloody thing , plus they do help against the bloody Okadas here in Lagos) and I would "fill" the headlight section with a piece of poly-carbonate. The p-c is very strong and can take a hell of a beating and if something hits it and it cracks it takes a lot of energy and then hopefully the headlight only has a very light impact to deal with.

The light guards you see on most will only help a bit against branches but won't do anything against pebbles etc. So on a dirt/gravel road they are useless, while a full "sheet" type guard would work.

If you take the light guards, fit p-c over them they'd work a lot better but that would even be fuglier then they already are.

In other words, they are ugly as heck and I would never fit them unless absolutely necessary !!! MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

To me, all those bits and bobs, light guards, sidesteps, etc, just detract enormously from what is acknowledged to be a design icon. As has been stated, far from offering protection, they offer you bodywork damage in addition to a broken light. When you remove them they also require bodywork (filling and painting).

To me, they belong with stick on chrome effect trim!  2012 SDV8 Vogue SE

No. I know the lights are expensive, but so is the whole car, you wouldn't want to wrap it up in bubble wrap.

Anyway in over 30 years of driving I have never had a broken light except in a proper accident when a cover wouldn't make any difference. No longer FF owner but still interested. Present car Jaguar XE
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