Author Topic: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?  (Read 3296 times)

Josho

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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #10 on: 03 March 2009, 17:03 »
Yup genuine Hellas. £40 then got an email saying one is cracked. Sent me twenty quid partial refund, and I already knew they were cracked from the picture.

"angle eyes golf" - What great lights they are. :grin:

Waiting to hear if VR6 Joe has a spare cover before sticking it in. Might spray them colour match.

How much extra insurance do you reckon for a 55 year old man with over 5 years no claims and no accidents do you think for Hellas?

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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #11 on: 03 March 2009, 17:05 »
Twins / Angel eyes ?? which are they?
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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #12 on: 03 March 2009, 17:08 »
Hella twins.

Not angel eyes. :sick:

The seller had them listed as "angle eyes golf" They are really genuine Hella twins.

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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #13 on: 04 March 2009, 10:29 »
Let you off in that case!  :grin:
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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #14 on: 04 March 2009, 10:56 »
By 'high beam' I take it you mean full beam, so..

Not being funny but does it matter whether they're legal or not? If they're in the high beams, they're only used on dark roads when there's no other cars on the road, and when a car does come the other way, you switch them off anyway. This won't affect any other drivers on the road so I don't actually see a problem. :undecided:

In a way it's like my fog lights, illegal to use them when it's not foggy, but I used to use them on dark country roads that I've never been on before, but I always turned them off at the first sign of a car coming in the opposite direction. Now I've got my HID's I don't even need my full beam OR fog lights :grin:
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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #15 on: 04 March 2009, 11:45 »
By 'high beam' I take it you mean full beam, so..

Not being funny but does it matter whether they're legal or not? If they're in the high beams, they're only used on dark roads when there's no other cars on the road, and when a car does come the other way, you switch them off anyway. This won't affect any other drivers on the road so I don't actually see a problem. :undecided:

In a way it's like my fog lights, illegal to use them when it's not foggy, but I used to use them on dark country roads that I've never been on before, but I always turned them off at the first sign of a car coming in the opposite direction. Now I've got my HID's I don't even need my full beam OR fog lights :grin:

What about if you were stopped by the police, if they carried out a check and found them you could still get trouble.

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Re: Legal status of 100W bulbs in high-beam?
« Reply #16 on: 04 March 2009, 13:15 »
Didn't think of that

Although to be fair, they can't be much brighter than standard?
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