High level brake lights - should I?

[bobfather]

Getting bored and looking for things to tinker with on the Chim. I have been considering fitting high level brake lights but I don't want anything that looks too after-market. I was thinking about recessing LEDs into the upper halves of the roof stays. Also add switching to turn them off when the stays were in the folded position. I can't come up with a reasonable solution that will work for roof up and down. I definitely don't want to fit one to the boot lid as this would not be high enough to make a meaningful difference. Any thoughts???

Something like these

[bobfather]

Steve_D said:

A high level fitted to most cars is hard up against the rear window glass. If you fit them to the stays they will be away from the surface so will light up the whole interior of the car so not a good idea.

Steve

That crossed my mind but then I saw the Tuscan brake light arrangement. That sits off the window, not sure if Tuscan's suffer glare from them.

[bobfather]

David Beer said:

Not sure if these would fit a chimaera?

The problem I have with that design is that it's not really 'high level'

[bobfather]

magpies said:

They'd have to be on the roof then - which is ok for Chimps as they always have their roof up. Us S owners would have a problem with that

Edited by magpies on Sunday 7th February 19:23

Cheers, that's quite helpful. I hadn't realised that

[bobfather]

Zener said:

This belongs to a mate of mine (not on here) previously a PH'er's car do you mean something like this?

I like that, much simpler than the solution I had in mind. I need a challenge though, perhaps a switch that automatically disables the lamp when the roof is down

[bobfather]

LucyP said:

Surely something that mounts on the boot lid is the way to go. Something like this that came from an XJS convertible back in the day? The listing has nothing to do with me. It's just the idea that came to mind and I found one for sale in the usual place.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GENUINE-JAGUAR-XJS-...

I've seen that one mounted to the boot lid just under the rear window. IMO it looks 'after market'. I was looking for something that would appear OEM to a passer-by

[bobfather]

LucyP said:

It was OEM on a Jaguar XJS! A Chim has rear lights from a Fiesta. Is that what you call OEM?! Why wouldn't TVR have fitted an XJS boot mounted high level rear brake light to a Chim boot?

I take your point, having seen one of these on a Chim however, I would not want it

Here it is on a Griff, looks tacky to me