Today I added a new reversing light to my Land Rover Defender. As any Land Rover owner will tell you, ALL original lights are, at best, feeble and rather useless.
I have already changed the head lights (another post to follow for that). Today H4 bulbs are equivalent to candles on horse-drawn carriages, so I installed some LED aftermarket ones.
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I don’t have a Land Rover style connector so I have to adapt. I also want to make it interchangeable new and old reversing light
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Threading the wiring down from the inside to the reversing light (a bit fiddly as I didn’t want to remove all the interior cladding.) PS the dust came with the Defender which was first registered in Spain.
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This is the new reversing light from Lazer. Normal reversing light is 21W, this is 25W so I’mhoping I don’t need to add a relay.
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I looped the new wires through the old ones so it will be easy to swap them. As I pull out the original light , the wires for the new light are pulled out as well.
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Obviously the seal for the wiring is not going to work so I will change the plug and attache it directly to the extension wire coming up from the original light.
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The wires are now sealable where the exit the roof, but I need to remove the joiners and attach the Deutsch connector directly onto the cable. Luckily we use Deutsch at work so I will be able to do that later this week.
I decided to put the light dead centre, just above the rear screen washer nozzle as I am very keen on clean symmetry and from there is will give a even light spread.