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BA Wagon
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
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hey guys,
I need to get a new set of spotties as the last roo i hit decided to kill my old ones. I'm wondering if anyone has had a set of Roo Lites... I was looking at lightforce 170's but the roo lites are so much cheaper I cant ignore them. Evan
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So what you are asking is if you have an automatic licence even if it is upgraded to manual automatically can it be upgraded manually by sitting for a manual test and if passed the automatic licence is automatically upgraded but if failed is the automaic licence automatically failed as well and do you have to read the road safety manual to sit for the manual upgrade or does the automatic licence test of the road safety manual automatically cover the manual test as well? |
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Mot Adv-NSW
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lake Macquarie, NSW
Posts: 2,153
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Roo lights are a marketing term for what are effectively 180mm driving lamps, but with adjustable beam and focus (broad to spot). Probably in other sizes. For what I can see overpriced in my view, like many.
Save a few bucks-up and perhaps try for a set of DL HIDs. Otherwise, 160-220m, halogen DL's, but with the bulbs replaced wit PLUS 50 or PLUS 60 type (Phillips have the latter). Many options and type.
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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I don't have them but knew a guy who did and he was rapped in them. They are basically a Lightforce copy but in slightly different sizes to avoid the legals. They even use the same globes. The only thing with them is that you can't get the various interchangable lense covers like with genuine Lightforce, so no spread beam or blue or yellow variants.
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BA Wagon
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 186
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Thanks Keep left/Bushbasher.
I just found this on the net: http://www.4wddirect.com.au/scart/html/328.html The lightforce are 170mm and the roo's are 180mm as you said. its the fact that they're about $100 cheaper and if they have a 1 yr warranty then its worth a go!
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So what you are asking is if you have an automatic licence even if it is upgraded to manual automatically can it be upgraded manually by sitting for a manual test and if passed the automatic licence is automatically upgraded but if failed is the automaic licence automatically failed as well and do you have to read the road safety manual to sit for the manual upgrade or does the automatic licence test of the road safety manual automatically cover the manual test as well? |
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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I stand corrected, I just looked at your link and it appears you can now get blue and yellow lenses........... but still no spread beam.
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Location: Kenthurst
Posts: 40,394
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I don't need my Lightforce 240s anymore ... so might sell them actually.
They are strong though (something I have heard that the RooLites aren't). I haven't changed a globe in my set for 3 years ... and they got a lot of country/rural usage as well. In tersm of strength ... a chunk of coal came off a truck on on the New England Hwy .... coming the opposite direction .. both of us were doing about 100km/h. I saw the coal at the last second and had not time to avoid it (it was larger than the size of my fist). It hit the top of my left LF driving light and took off over the roof. Not a marke left on the light at all ... and the combo filter I had on the front didn't get marked either. If I had no lights on the nudgebar I reckon that would have come through my windscreen. And there's a coupe of occasions where I have had to try and avoid wallabies on Putty Rd of a morning on the way to work ... and they have bounces off the nudgebar and driving lights (at a reduced speed when trying to avoid them) ... no damage luckily. Roolites are manufactured by KC if i remember correctly.
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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Hey Pup, go for Mechan1ks' 240's mate, you won't regret it, I can attest to the fact they are tough as nails. I've got 240s' and ya can't kill 'em with a hammer let alone a stick. I mate had 4 on the front of a Hino bread truck and collected a big mutha red roo one night that slammed the 2 on the passenger side back into the bonnet of the truck after flexing the bullbar back far enough to mark the bonnet and all he did was get out and straighten the lights up and carry on, not a mark on them. One left a hell of a dent in the bonnet of the truck though. I love my 240s'.
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Got the big roolites on my landcruiser, They are OK for what they cost. Only beef I have is the adjuster for the focus keeps rattling loose
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Moree, NSW
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One of the tests that is mentioned in the Lightforce catelogue is they empty a Remmington SPAS 12 shot-gun into them and 6ft IIRC, without leaving a mark.
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Lion Tammer
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Maybe it's called a front panel just like you said or an inspection panel, go into a trucks spares or dealer and ask for a bonnet for a Hino, Isuzu or Mitzi, anyway aren't bonnets what baby's wear LOL
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SMITHFIELD NSW
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I had Roo lites on the front of Hino FD i used to drive up from brisbane to cairns and for the price of them compared to a Lightforce item i was impressed and as for oscars and all the other named Gear to me they look the same and do the same job it comes down to how silly you are prepared to pay for lights you cant use all the time anyhow.
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Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
Posts: 2,620
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Haven't tried the Roo Lites, but it'd take a good light for me to change from my current Rallye 4000's. They're great!
Lightforce are tops too, we've got them fitted to all of our Hilux's at work. They do a great job.
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BA Wagon
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 186
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I decided to go for the Roo Lites. i got the 180mm @ $265. the Lightforce were 170mm @ $375. In the end it came down to cost. the Roo Lites have a 1 yr warranty so you cant really go wrong. i lined up a mates car who has just bought the Lightforce 170's next to mine last night and you cannot tell the difference. I'm very impressed with them so far but i'm heading to Canberra on thursday night so i shall report back in when i get home and let you know how they go.
I agree Dazza, the 4000's are one of the best around but were just a little to large and heavy for my application. If i had a Tuff Bar like yours then i would have gone for them.
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So what you are asking is if you have an automatic licence even if it is upgraded to manual automatically can it be upgraded manually by sitting for a manual test and if passed the automatic licence is automatically upgraded but if failed is the automaic licence automatically failed as well and do you have to read the road safety manual to sit for the manual upgrade or does the automatic licence test of the road safety manual automatically cover the manual test as well? |
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