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General => The garage => Topic started by: MrRogers on 10 January 2012, 22:45

Title: Another dreadid HID question..sorry ladies and gents.
Post by: MrRogers on 10 January 2012, 22:45

Evening all,

Hope this is the right section to ask. I don't at the moment have HID's neither projectors at the moment. As were all aware the new MOT rules regarding HIDs bla bla bla..

Just curious to no will the MOT fail if you have the HID kit installed or is it just the brightnes of the light output from the bulbs them selves?

Cheers for the input.

Title: Re: Another dreadid HID question..sorry ladies and gents.
Post by: clancy on 10 January 2012, 22:51

if they are not particularly bright, or you have the correct bulbs. ( you can get HID bulbs made for reflector lenses so they are not too bright now) then its unlikely they would check tbh. unless there bright blue etc.

unless you go to some big chain garage which is likely to check everything in the book etc

other option is fit them after you MOT

Title: Re: Another dreadid HID question..sorry ladies and gents.
Post by: javalin on 12 January 2012, 13:37

>another option is fit them after you MOT
not really as they'll fail the next MOT and be an issue if you are ever stopped for anything....

>unless you go to some big chain garage which is likely to check everything in the book etc
of course all MOT centres should be to the same standard.

I believe they have to be fitted correctly and have working auto-adjuster's fitted to pass the MOT, plus the installation needs to be tidy cause you can now fail on bad/loose wiring, etc

James