This allows my light bar to cut through the fog/snow without my high beams on, which throws undesirable splash light to the snow/fog in front of me. Reason being that with this setup, you need to have the high beams on for the bar to turn on, but it is possible to run the light bar only, with the headlight switch turned to the " running light" position and the high beam switch on. I will not be installing a secondary dash mounted switch for the light bar as discussed earlier. Wiring and the issues you will face will be another issue I will discuss in this post. ![]() I was able to do all of this without assistance. This allows you to pull the grill back far enough to access the inside of the bumper to hold your bolt while tightening the other side from below. If your bumper is off, this isn’t a problem, if it’s on, you will need to remove the fasteners on the upper section of the upper grill. Once the holes are drilled, you will need access to the fastener from the inside of the bumper. ![]() It is possible to drill your holes through the front of the opening, but it will be challenging the make your first guid hole due the the limited space, again, a removed bumper would eliminate this issue. Once the lower grill is removed you will see and have access to the steel bumper. I’ve removed you so lose a little structural support to the surrounding plastics, but nothing noticeable or problematic. A few flat head screw drivers and a lot of patience will get it out. I did have to remove the fasteners in the front of the lower skid plate to allow access to the back of the lower grill. It was pretty difficult to remove the lower “grill” without removing the bumper. It must be noted that I did NOT take the front bumper off, but it may have been a good investment of time to due so. I can see through the snow because of this. This is the reason for mounting the bar so far back, splash light can not scatter up. Heavy snow and “splash” lighting don’t mix, which is why it seems better to use low beams in snow fall vs high beams. A lot of my driving in Alaska is going back and forth on a 100 mile long stretch of Highway in the dark. The reason for picking a straight bar over a curved bar is due to my specific driving needs. Gravel, salt, snow, and dirt roads will deal havoc on the lenses so I picked a bar with lenses that can be replaced individually and colored lenses are available as an option if needed. ![]() Now there are a million options for LED light bars that are 30” or less and to each their own, but the reason I picked this bar is because I knew the bar would have a rough life living in the lower opening given the road conditions in Alaska. It should be noted: a bar ANY longer will cause figment issues due to the transmission cooler line location in the passenger side. The bar I’m using is a Bush Whacker UNL measuring exactly 31 3/8 from one one of the bar to the other. When you're poor you gotta do what you need to do to get by.I don’t usually post, but seeing as there is ZERO info on installing a Loghtbar on a 2011-2017 Odyssey, I’ll make an exception. My insurance agent looked at it (he has a second business transporting disabled students and owns more than 1 Odyssey) and he said it looked good enough. So I cashed the check.īut the day after my accident to patch it up and make it look passable I used some plastic sheeting and white Gorilla tape to patch it up and then spray painted it with some silver paint I had that closely matched the car color. As far as the insurance company is concerned, they're done with you on the matter". I asked my insurance agent what I should do with it and he said, "Well, the check is in just your name-cash it. So I was surprised when I got a check in the mail the next week for $550. ![]() I knew if I was to get a bumper myself that it would be much cheaper than that and not difficult to put on after watching YouTube videos on it so I had no intention of having them fix it. I had collision coverage mostly for if it got totaled but I took it into the body shop preferred by my insurance for an estimate: $1050. It punched a hole in the right front of the bumper on my '04. Last August I hit a deer for the first time in nearly 50 years of driving.
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