Spots, how should they be wired?

Been meaning to ask you all this for bloody ages.

Bought my Def 110, already with spots.

The switch for them is down on the steering column, which is a pain in the ass!
Should it not be wired into the main light switch???

I never use them, due to having separate switches, and I does need them, in the Welsh mountain mist!

ive put mine like this

there individual so 1 is for

rear work light

front spots

roof light bar

rear interior for kiddi winks

and map light

OK.....I am a woman!.....I am blonde! lol (cute though!.....oooh & own a 110!)

So!............that means you have to turn on & off a switch, for your spots, as well as your normal lights? Like I do.

Can you not wire spots into the main lights, so it goes on & off with full beam??
This seems to make sense.....to me!

Otherwise I can't use them, people go mental if I have them on! and so bloody fiddly, to turn main off, & then find the spot switch, which is right down next to the ignition?!
Seems such a stupid place to put it, as I get caught up with the keys! (not sure if it was a DIY job or a Land Rover job)
By then some bloody tosser, is going mental, coming towards me!

I suffer with road rage (that's with stupid people, who cannot drive) as it is! lol.....living in Wales, does this to a person!
So you can imagine, one day, I am gonna have my head kicked in! lol

OK.....I am a woman!.....I am blonde! lol (cute though!.....oooh & own a 110!)

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ill come round and wire it in for you if thats the case

Fab! see you in 10! lol

10 mins to mid wales i wish , you staying in wales when ya move ?

No bloody way! lol.....can't take it any longer, people that live in middle of nowhere.....YET.....cannot reverse their vehicle!!!!!!
There is nothing that makes me more angry!
If you can't drive your vehicle backwards as well as you can forwards......you shouldn't be bloody driving! aaarrrggghhh!
I spend my life reversing for twazzocks!

Heading up to Scotland hopefully! Where I know.....they can drive! lol

Back to the point! no one has told me, if I can wire my spots into my main lights?????

take a wire from the main beam wire where it goes into the headlamp plug and run it to thespotlamp relay where the wire from the switch currently goes and when you switch the mainbeam on the spots will come on as well

hopefully this helps

I was just getting me, wiring diagram out! lol

Thank you Robint & -Defender110-, much appreciated.

no problem, let us know how you get on, im thinking of doing the same.

Lislandy said:

Heading up to Scotland hopefully! Where I know.....they can drive! lol

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If you had seen some of my mishaps you wouldn't be saying that.

I've just wired in a pair of new spotlights. Took a feed from the flasher / main beam switch on the steering column to power the spotlight relay. Also added a switch into this feed so that I can choose not to have the spots come on with main beam. Sounds like you've got everything you already need in place, just need to rejig the wiring slightly.

Ian.

instantsquid said:

I've just wired in a pair of new spotlights. Took a feed from the flasher / main beam switch on the steering column to power the spotlight relay. Also added a switch into this feed so that I can choose not to have the spots come on with main beam. Sounds like you've got everything you already need in place, just need to rejig the wiring slightly.

Ian.

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but he dun't want a separate switch so will be easier to take the feed direct from headlamp wiring plug to the relay in the engine bay.

redhand said:

but he dun't want a separate switch so will be easier to take the feed direct from headlamp wiring plug to the relay in the engine bay.

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I think you will find he's a she.

She is! but thanks anyways!

morning lislandy have you got them done then yet ?

Morning trbod,

Not yet......taking the beast out over the Preseli's today.

Gonna give it a go tomorrow, will let you know how I get on!

The reason you have a seperate switch is that it is illegal to have over (I think) 220W (i.e. 4x55W) on the fornt on main beam, and you could fail you MOT if you have a huge bank of spots come on when you put the main beam on, and also **** people off if you have them on comming towards them

I got a bit of a bollocking from a coulpe of traffic cops comming the other way when the guy coming the other way (infront of them) would not turn off his main beam (in a lit tunnel!), so I flashed my main beam at him (I had forgot to remove the fuses for the 'off road' lights) and so 1Kw (10x 100") of spots came on - unfortunately the car behind the one with his main beam on happened to be a trafic copers car who was not impressed, and could obviously not see the car ahead of him had his main beam on as well!

However driving through the welsh mountains with huge amounts of light on is fine, but I find it difficult when going around sharp bends as you become blind of what is going on around the corner as its in darkness as the lights only point in the direction of the landy, not the wheels - In this case I find less light (to a point ) is best

redhand said:

but he dun't want a separate switch so will be easier to take the feed direct from headlamp wiring plug to the relay in the engine bay.

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Just offering an alternative.