Best lights for Roof Rack or bumper?

[KPSquared]

i am just curious what the best lighting is to put on your bumper and your roof rack. When I get my rack built, there will be room for four 8" round lights and plan to have two more 8" or smaller on the front bumper.

so the question is, Floods, or spots? What is the best set up?

For now I think I'll buy a couple Explorer Pro-comp 8" 130's 'cause they are cheap but I may upgrade the bumper ones to some Lightforce or something of that sort. don't know much about the quality off the different off-road lights or how bright they are. When it's in the budget, I don't mind buying better lights that draw a little less but I don't think I'd ever have the need to spring for HID off-road stuff... maybe headlights but not the $500/light big sexy round ones...

 

[LBarr2002]

My old one was set up like this:

The bumper lights were 5" procomp floods, pointed low to get below the normal headlights. The roof had 3 5" procomp spots (middle and both sides) and the second and fourth are floods pointed basically straight out. That gave really good long range light, and helped out the stock headlights a lot with the floods.

The bumper lights are wired in to the light switch to come on with the headlights, and the rack lights come on with the high beams, when the activation switch is on.

 

[Bill Kemp]

The best lights are the ones that do what you want. What do you want illuminated?
High speed/driving/High Beam type. Low beam/wide angle. Trail/all around/crawling speed.
The difference in price usually indicates the life of the lamps not the brightness.

IMHO Fog lamps on the bumper. Fogs or floods on the outside of the rack and driving or spot lights on the inside/center positions.

Never having had roof lights its just MHP.

 

[KPSquared]

Thanks for the advice. I think I'll go with 2 floods on the outside of the rack, 2 spots inside and then two spots on the bumper.

This in addition to the 10 other lights that will be on the rig... 200amp Alternator, here I come...

 

[LBarr2002]

Mine had 13 at one point and mounts for 2 more that I never put on. I also had a 200 amp alternator and optima battery.

 

[red.EDDIE.4x4]

for the money, the cheapie ones at o'reilly auto parts that are about 25 bucks each are pretty dang bright. im pleased with the 4 i have. plenty of light to light up the night...

and

they shine all the way to the back of my garage and light it up. which is actually another 10' deep. (light on the side of the garage is on, its not lighting up that too...) not bad i dont think
side note...poor ol little Heep....