Maybe I exaggerate a bit. I bet you were imagining my disco with huge LED bars on the bumper and on the roof and maybe a couple of LED spots by the mirrors like so many mall crawling Jeeps have? Well, to be fair, I did use LEDs. After being rear ended while reversing some time ago, I hatched a plan to replace the rear bumper lights with LEDs. Not just LED lamps in the stock housings, but entirely new housings. A trip to www.superbrightleds.com/ netted me 2 pair each of White LED lights, one each in a narrow beam and the other in wide. The fifth light was a red LED to replace the rear fog light that all European cars have. I find that light rather important, used in Europe and the rest of the world when the weather gets truly nasty, I use it when it is heavily snowing or really sheeting down. I have yet to see fog thick enough to warrant it's use. Balancing the rear fog light off is a seven pin trailer plug. As the trailers for my boats will have more than just a combo set of stop, tail, and turn signals, moving over to the European Seven pin system allows for separate turn signals, reversing lights, and even another rear fog. After all the work I am putting into my boats, I do not need somebody running into the back of one of them in bad weather.
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I brought home my Disco over 4 years ago when I bought my SeaSprite 23. I needed a vehicle that was not a pickup for both towing and daily driving duties. The fact that I did not want an American SUV led me to either a BMW X5 or a Land Rover. I could not afford the 5er, so this lovely red Disco it was.
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