Does that mean that the yobbo that blinded us the other night will have to fit another full length bar to his roofrack to stay legal or will tmr enforce that lights above the bonnet must be covered.
Light bar on roof legal qld.
Led light bars can not be fitted to the top of a bullbars or nudge bars.
Led light bars are considered to be one lamp if all leds in the bar operate together.
If they are covered the yobbo s are too lazy to uncover them for on road.
Your best bet is to check with the locals before you head off and make whatever modifications required based on the local situation.
Placing additional forward facing driving lights which do not protrude upwards or outwards from your bullbar 1 is legal but something which protrudes from the top of the bullbar 2 is not legal nor are lights positioned on the roof or roof rack 3 or on a sports bar if you re driving a ute 4.
Queensland has a similar take on it here.
2 like all additional driving lights these must be switched so they can only be turned on when the high beams are on.
Driving lights can be fitted above the roof line but they must be fitted to the front half of the vehicle when measured from the front to the rearmost point of the vehicle.
However that does not mean that our upstanding friends in the queensland police won t pull you over and fine you even if your led light bar is switched off.
1 the light bar must be on the front half of the vehicle this means that on the likes of a dual cab you cant put the light bar on the roll bar of the tray.
The lights may be fitted to the roof of the vehicle.
Up to four lamps may be fitted a light bar is classified as one lamp as long as all the led lights come on together and they are spaced equally symmetrical when fitted.
Yes you can legally mount a light bar on your roof however there are a couple of stipulations that are involved with this.
A manual switch must be provided to allow the led light bar to be deactivated so that it is.