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Title: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Mr.Tom on 15 October 2009, 10:30

I was thinking of putting some leds behind my VW logo to have it glow slightly. I know you can't have blue lights on the front, but could it be white, or green? not to bright, just enough to be able to see the outline in the dark perhaps.
Cheers.

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: A7 UFO on 15 October 2009, 10:35

you can't have green....but white would be fine as long as it's not blinding

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Mr.Tom on 16 October 2009, 01:28

Cool.
So, can you not have any other colours on the front. Other than white of course?

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: A7 UFO on 16 October 2009, 09:38

green - emergency doctor
blue/red - emergency services
yellow - recovery vehicles/highways agency

What other colours are there?  I'd stick to white.

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Mr.Tom on 19 October 2009, 11:03

Ah yes, didn't think of the green for doctors :)
Would have been nice to match to the green car, hehe.

So, if it is on the rear, could it be red still? Or perhaps as a third brake light :D (not planning on doing the rear tho anyway)

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: A7 UFO on 20 October 2009, 12:59

yes to red on the rear.  It would be quite a bit of work to sink a recess behind the badge to then light up.

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Mortimer Hill on 05 November 2009, 00:26

Can't see why not

Wolseley did it for years!

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Guy on 05 November 2009, 12:20

Quote from: Mortimer Hill on 05 November 2009, 00:26

Can't see why not

Wolseley did it for years!

the police used to use a lot of wolseleys... 6/80's, 6/90's etc

we used to have a wolseley six when i was a nipper

i remember my old man telling me that they always used to know when a police car was following him as the grille badge was always illuminated... it took police years to cotton onto this

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: pipehose on 22 November 2009, 16:40

[quote author=Guy

we used to have a wolseley six when i was a nipper

i remember my old man telling me that they always used to know when a police car was following him as the grille badge was always illuminated... it took police years to cotton onto this
[/quote]

whats a wolseley six lol

Title: Re: Would it be legal to have a glowing grille badge?
Post by: Guy on 22 November 2009, 16:53

Quote from: pipehose on 22 November 2009, 16:40

whats a wolseley six lol

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