High Level Brake Light

[mandalman]

Can I ask if anyone else has this type of brake light fitted. 

I am in a quandary as to whether to change it or not. I'm in the process of ordering LED lights from JAL and I'm wondering whether I should keep this or go for one of their smaller 'race' high level brake lights.

The reason for considering a change is this unit takes up a lot of real estate on the roll-bar limiting where I can position the Go Pro and it also makes fitting the hood more problematic. I've never driven with the hood on (I'm a relatively new owner) but I would like to get a SBFS half hood and I'm concerned this wouldn't fit properly either. 

If anyone has one and can confirm a half hood would still fit ok it would help my decision because otherwise it's a relatively nice unit

[SM25T]

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[mandalman]

Sorry, hit post before I had completed message 

 

[SM25T]

Could you reposition it under the roll bar. That's where mine is mounted. Can be seen through the cut out in the half hood.

[mandalman]

That would make a lot more sense. To be honest I'm not sure how it's attached as I didn't firt it but I'll take a look tomorrow. There are no obvious brackets

[SM25T]

Mine is fixed with beads of silicone sealant between the light and the roll bar.

[Windy Corner]

This is mine on my first car, which I replicated on No's 2 and 3

[garybee]

I also have mine mounted beneath the bar.  I made a bracket to attach the gopro to the front of the cage cross, gives a more 'driver's eye' view (with Tillets and lowered floors).

[brianjhall31]

Fitted mine by making up a Tee bracket that mounts onto the 2 popper points (popper are still retained so Tonneau can be fitted).  Very easy to route wires up and around the boot cover without cutting any holes.  Does not interfere with anything and is visible with Half Hood fitted.  Vertical height is the same as you will find on Boxter or MX5 so well in "eye line" of following drivers.

[gileshudson]

Mount it below the rollbar-horizontal with silicon bead and/or tie wraps and it will allow the half hood to fit with ease.
This way will also stop having to obscure what little rear visibility we have backwards between the seats that some of the lower fixing options like the JAL solution can be prone to do IMHO.

[CtrMint]

I wrote a blog post on my JAL item if you're interested.

https://www.caterham7diaries.com/post/high-level-rear-brake-light-jal

[PeterM]

The one available from PGM is excellent. Well made, sits below the roll bar on special brackets, very bright, easy to fit and minimal rear view obstruction. Not cheap but well engineered.

[timb2117]

Hearing all the good advice, I picked one up on ebay super bright and about half the width and depth of yours I love the mounting position as it is as high as possible, and neat, and my narrower version leaves a lot of real estate for go pro.

But agree with hood on its obscured at the one time when you need it most, in dull dreary wet conditions catch 22.

[murph7355]

Could you just use self-adhesive, weatherproof red LED tape?  You could put that almost anywhere in any length, and with a black PCB it'd look reasonably unobtrusive.  May have a play with this idea over winter :)

[anthony1956]

Interesting. I bought one (same as #7) to fit but never yet did the deed because it interferes with camera mounting of both GoPros (not a huge issue because I fit several of these elsewhere) and my Canon DSLR which I sometimes use... typing this it strikes me a Velcro solution might work, since when I use the big cam there's rarely any following traffic, and if there is the DSLR is pointing at it.

Velcro : maybe a second strip on the rear of the ReBag.

The PGM offering I will look at as their engineering I have seen (DS CRA) looks nice, if twice the price. 
 

Anthony