Lights

[Mr. H]

Ok....I have looked through all the threads and don't find the answer. Can you help. I have a Manic roof rack (front and rear) with 4 KC retangular lights. When I turn them on they white out the windshield and make it hard to see. I went with the retangular for garage clearance. Does anyone know what the problem is? Help

[Mr. H]

Ok....I have looked through all the threads and don't find the answer. Can you help. I have a Manic roof rack (front and rear) with 4 KC retangular lights. When I turn them on they white out the windshield and make it hard to see. I went with the retangular for garage clearance. Does anyone know what the problem is? Help

[NJ H2]

Your problem seems to be that when you turn on your 4 KC roof lights it whites out your windsheild making it hard to see. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[DRTYFN]

You're getting glare from the lights being too far forward. If possible, move them back a few inches.
Are you using the lights for forward vision? If not, angle them slightly to the sides of your rig(much better for night trail runs and bunny spotlighting IMO).

[Mr. H]

Here is a picture of the set up from the side. How much farther back? I think these are driving lights not fog or spot lights. What do you think?

[Mr. H]

Sorry, I guess I need to learn to post pictures. Any help from you guys?

[tower]

Sure.

[Mr. H]

What? Sure what??? http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[PARAGON]

The edge of your roofline needs to block the glare from your lights. Your lights need to be moved back or back and down enough to where there is no glare coming from the hood and especially so that there is no light able to come straight down on to the windshield.

[Mr. H]

Thanks. I will give it a try. I have to move the whole rack back to accomplish. Thanks. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[PARAGON]

So, how many H2s are in your neighborhood? I see that there is one across the street.

[Mr. H]

2. The other is the blue with 6" fab Tech and 38" tires on 20" rims and will never see any mud or rocks. Just for show.

[Mr. H]

Thanks for all the help. I got it fixed. Look closely at the lights, they are pointed down and with a small adjustment, the problem went away.

Thanks for all the help.

[DRTYFN]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:
The edge of your roofline needs to block the glare from your lights. Your lights need to be moved back or back and down enough to where there is no glare coming from the hood and especially so that there is no light able to come straight down on to the windshield. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep!! What he said.
If you could somehow flip the mounting brackets so they were facing backwards that should be enough to keep the glare off of your windshield.

Could you edit your above post with the GIGANTIC picture? Just delete the picture.

[Mr. H]

Will do. Thanks.

[tower]

Sure, meaning "Sure, here's help posting the photo at a reasonable size." But you seem to have fixed that now.