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Offline kane1210

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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #10 on: 22 March 2009, 21:23 »
http://www.xenonshop.co.uk/faq.php


Are these Xenon HID systems road legal?
According to EU legislation HID systems standard factory fitted from the factory require a self levelling system and a lens washer to be fitted. However this is not specified for aftermarket kits. Our kits have passed all safety and emmissions tests and produce the correct light pattern. We know they will pass an MOT (original bulbs can be reinstalled in minutes if required without uninstalling the HID system). We are not aware of any legality issues over the use of aftermarket HID kits when installed correctly and when the colour tempature is 6000k to 8000k but it should be worth noting that car headlights have to produce a white light so the 10000k and 12000k kits may be a bit blue / purple for legal road use.

All fitting and responsibility for the safe & legal operating of these lighting systems is left with the installer / owner of the vehicle not ourselves.
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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #11 on: 22 March 2009, 22:25 »
Quote from: kane1210 on 22 March 2009, 21:23
Our kits have passed all safety and emmissions tests and produce the correct light pattern.

Doesn't mean anything.

Quote from: kane1210 on 22 March 2009, 21:23
We know they will pass an MOT (original bulbs can be reinstalled in minutes if required without uninstalling the HID system).
If they're legal, why would you have to change bulbs to pass an MOT?

Quote from: kane1210 on 22 March 2009, 21:23
We are not aware of any legality issues over the use of aftermarket HID kits
Doesn't mean anything

Quote from: kane1210 on 22 March 2009, 21:23
All fitting and responsibility for the safe & legal operating of these lighting systems is left with the installer / owner of the vehicle not ourselves.
Thereby absolving themselves of any responsibility.

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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #12 on: 23 March 2009, 00:19 »
Uh Oh - where's T_T :shocked:

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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #13 on: 23 March 2009, 10:24 »
do you have a self leveling sensor on your rear axle?  thought not, in that case they are illegal.

sorry.

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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #14 on: 23 March 2009, 10:37 »
oh well glad i didnt spend a fortune on them , there well easy to put ur old lights back in so maybe thats a good thing .
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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
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Re: HID Install Process (Photos)
« Reply #16 on: 25 March 2009, 17:41 »
Quote from: Cass on 23 March 2009, 00:19
Uh Oh - where's T_T :shocked:

Cass

I'd say T_T if sick to his high teeth of telling the younger generation of the woes of fitting these illegal kits! But I await his reply anyway :)
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