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Do you use the spotlight?
In searching the buses for sale the larger percentage don’t have the roof mount spotlight.
How many have one and find them useful.
Mine is not operative, wanting to know thought on fixing or removing.
Less wind resistance.
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Wind resistance? It probably impacts the fuel mileage in the second or third decimal place.
While inspecting our coach Jeff Rowe of East Tennessee Luxury Coach told me the spotlight is used rarely. That surprised me. But our coach is our first motorhome so what did I know.
In almost six years I’ve used it a few times and was glad I had it. Twice I arrived at the race track in the dark used the spot light to look for a parking site for the M/H and 26’ trailer. Very handy. Two other times to shine deer in the yard at home.
Having used it, I wouldn’t want to give it up.
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
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Yep its certainly a personal preference/use thing. I pulled mine off and havent missed it.
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Having a good spotlight on board is much more useful. I’ve used mine only once that I can think of where I felt it was really useful. The best thing I have ever done is update the headlights. Now I can see at night on those rare occasions I drive after dark.
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6+ yrs and we’ve never used ours.
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Removed mine.
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Leesburg, FL -
In 30 years I used it once. And when I used it I hoped it would do the job.
I was on an interstate, westbound at about 3:00 AM. The road was pretty deserted, but in the distance I saw headlights too far away to really see where they were coming from, but almost immediately after I saw the headlights a trucker going eastbound spotted me across a very wide median and thank goodness we were both using CB’s.
He told me there was an eastbound car in my west bound lanes. I still could not determine if the headlights were from a car in my lane but as they neared I decided to take no chances. I slowed to almost a complete stop but moving enough so if I had to veer hard left or right I had some motion. I lit my fog lights, driving lights, high beams and the spotlight and shined the spotlight about 100 feet in front of me.
Sure enough the car was in the westbound lanes going eastbound and looked like he was coming at me. I hoped I was so lit up he would decide to not come right at me. He did not, he passed on the driver’s side, not going real fast. I hoped it was my lights that made him not hit me. They were intense.
Never used it before or since, but I am not removing it.
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A low hanging utility line in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico took mine off along with a couple of the air horns. I found it was easier and cheaper to replace the spot light with a wireless remote unit than to patch the holes and repaint. Same for the air horns. I have never used the spot light other than to test it but it is there none the less.
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In all of my years of motorcoaching I have used my spotlight in a real time of need only e few times and as a convenience a few more. In those times of need it was an invaluable asset. It’s sort of like a spare tire in your car or items for defense that some have in drawers or glove boxes and dash cams. You hope you never have real need for it, but feel much more comfortable having it available if the need arises. Not only do I plan to keep mine but I check it periodically to make sure it’s always in working order in case it might be needed.
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Lights can be very helpful. First time in 7 years of camping we had a nightly prowler in a gated county park near Phoenix (Lake Pleasant). I was awakened by someone walking around our coach around 1 am. We were in the first camp site next to the entrance away from the other campers.
I turned on the docking and flood lights to see what was going on. Much to my surprise it was a middle aged woman using her phone as a flash light rifling through our campsite and car. She claimed to be the “lot master”. There were no camp hosts. After I confronted her, she finally left in a newer class C that had pulled into the empty lot next to us. None of this made sense. A woman, by herself, a newer class C camper, arriving after midnight, etc. I suspect she was on some kind of drug. Glad I was not armed (forgot the gun this year). It might have ended very differently. And, yes, gates are not useful if everyone knows the code.
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ThreeGreens: You didn’t call 911?
Jeff and Lindsay
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We use ours quite a lot when on our beach front lot… we turn it on and can see the whole beach in front of us at night… really nice !!
Cheers, Diane
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Diane,
Do you play Dixie also from your musical horns with the lights on and have a real attention grabbing show?
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Jimmie…
Who told you ?? Someone must be spying on us… yes Dixie among many others….. not to mention if we see anything strange going on out there we can blast the Police Siren and watch them run !!
Cheers, Diane
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Yes, I was someplace where you started a concert from the roof of your bus while a lot of beverages were flowing down below. It was a big hit. Maybe a maintenance seminar?
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