RZR lighting question? What works best for dust at night?

[LargeOrangeFont]

Wondering what everyone’s experience is with lighting for RZRs at night in the dust?

I obviously have the stock headlights, and also a over the windshield LED light bar.

I was doing a higher speed night run with Gqchris and Bpracing1127 a couple nights ago and when I was heading up the rear it was like a complete white out with the dust at times. I let them run out really far in front (no wind at all that night) just to feel like I had some visibility at speed. It was better when I turned off my roof light bar, but visibility was still somewhat limited.

Should I think about an amber or yellow light bar for better performance in the dust? Are there other caveats with those I’m not thinking about? What works best?

 

[Clearmax]

You need to put more lights under your eye level. When it is dusty you turn off over head lights and run lower lights. I have tried green and amber lights but what helped me the most was positioning.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

You need to put more lights under your eye level. When it is dusty you turn off over head lights and run lower lights. I have tried green and amber lights but what helped me the most was positioning.

Like pencil beam A pillar lights?

The floods in that position are marginal at best in my experience for this situation.

I understand the concept that you want the light low.. Just like a fog light in a car.

Do the cube LED headlight conversions for the RZR help here or is that just for looks? The stock headlight seems to work decently.

 

[KENDOG689]

Lights low and wide spread to see the terrain.Upper light bars are great for riding alone but light up dust if following someone.

 

[*BN*]

During white out only run amber, (turn off white) Rigid or Baja brand. Other brands good luck

Brian

 

[cakemoto]

Kc makes a nice And expensive amber light bar for the front grill. Buddy Of mine swears by them one on each of his vehicles

 

[*BN*]

Kc makes a nice And expensive amber light bar for the front grill. Buddy Of mine swears by them one on each of his vehicles

Agree, KC is very good also.
Brian

 

[Done-it-again]

Amber works for dust. I was running 4, 6.5 vision x back in the day and ran 2 with amber shields.

 

[wallnutz]

Amber on the bumper is best, my son has a duel spot and flood.

 

[02HoWaRd26]

In the bumper. I have all BD leds on my car, with the hi/low option and seldom run my roof light (40” Onx6 dual control) at night. I run it in Amber always during the day tho. But then i have 3 XL80’s on the bumper 2 white 1 amber and they are more than enough in the dust. I’ve tried mounting at pillar and absolutely hated it. Got the dash reflection and the dust reflection. On a rzr or really any sxs the roof is only worth a crap alone or leading on a high speed run, but also need to mount back about 8-10” on the roof to help keep the reflection off the hood the best you can.

Stills from a little video of the lights flashing, wish i could post the video as easy as pics

 

[02HoWaRd26]

Like pencil beam A pillar lights?

The floods in that position are marginal at best in my experience for this situation.

I understand the concept that you want the light low.. Just like a fog light in a car.

Do the cube LED headlight conversions for the RZR help here or is that just for looks? The stock headlight seems to work decently.

I’ve seen the cubes and I’d say the only set up I’ve seen that competes with just the stock would be the Baja Design Pro series set up that uses two of the squadron pro’s per side. But at close to 1000$ I’d say stock is awesome on the rzr’s

 

[SJP]

Run out front.

 

[BHC Vic]

Run out front.

Was just going to type that. When I would ride my bike with a bunch of quads that was the easiest thing. Just stay in front

 

[02HoWaRd26]

Run out front.

I have windshield, nets (they really keep the dust and wind out nearly like wide windows) and a big heavy pig of a car. I always prefer when possible to be the follow car, last in line. It always feels safest as well i can help if anyone has any issues as well i have radio and all those little things some don’t have. So just have good positioned lighting.

 

[grumpy88]

I agree with just more distance . We run car to car radios so even though I usually run in the back I'm first in my ride !

 

[yz450mm]

I think this was around 90 bucks on Amazon, if you're interested then I'll look it up and send you a link.

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[Englewood]

Baja Designs, Rigid, or KC AMBER LIGHTS. I use Amber more than White, even when leading. The cheapo ebay stuff isn't 1/2 as good.

If I did it over again I would get a Baja Designs HP with Amber middle lens and outside white.

 

[outboard_256]

treat dust like fog. You want as low as possible with yellow or amber.

 

[ArizonaKevin]

follow a lot closer or a lot farther away, the middle zone for dust is the worst

 

[throttle]

Don’t ever go cheap on lights. I just recently started using an amber lens cover over a 10” Rigid combo light bar that has been on my front bumper. Cut some of the dust, but I usually just fall back a bit when following to keep it safe.


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