Golf V GTI OEM Xenon Installation Completed

[Greenouse]

Funny you should mention that, this guy popped up Yesterday, i know there not the same but there is a bit of a discussion on the legality.


                           http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=95314.0

Can i just bump this thread back up anybody want to laugh there heads off.  ^^^ 

Read that earlier!  What a tool 

[Jkctr]

Surely then, most mods at the end of the day can be hard to define as legal or not. The type of dash light in a car can be seen to be distracting, audio systems that breech noise regulations, front bumpers that would kill someone due to poor workmanship and fitting. Currently the laws surrounding the activities in a moving vehicle are ridiculous, it is illegal to change radio stations because of the amount of concentration you take off the road. I find it amusing they still sell cars with ashtrays and cigarette lighters; the amount of people pissing around lighting and smoking a cigarette is stupid.

At the end of the day is the MOT tester is going to pass my car then my car is road legal, its there responsibility as VOSA reps to do the correct procedures. To drive on the road you need an MOT certificate, tax and insurance. I have all of these and the last time the police checked it (while i had my HIDs) they were more than happy and let me on my way.

I think at the end of the day people should be putting alot more effort into getting uninsured (even though im sure you will turn it around and say im not insured, my mot certificate and insurance company say i am), un-liscened and dangerous drivers than worrying that someone had HIDs without auto washers. If you can be dazzled enough to crash on the road you shouldnt be driving! I have had people leave there full beams on, had the sun blind me when its come out from a house and various other everyday hazards and not been even close to an accident!

I would prefer to see the police catch real criminals and take down proper illegal drivers then go on a hunt for people with aftermarket HIDs.

[devilman]

At the end of the day is the MOT tester is going to pass my car then my car is road legal, its there responsibility as VOSA reps to do the correct procedures. To drive on the road you need an MOT certificate, tax and insurance. I have all of these and the last time the police checked it (while i had my HIDs) they were more than happy and let me on my way.

firstly nice comments from TT, good reading.

secondly i would look on the back of your VT20, your green test paper. it state "An MOT test pass confirms that, when the vehicle was examined in accordance with section 45 of the road traffic act 1988, it met the minimum legal requirements for those items prescribed under the act. it does not mean that the vehicle fully meets all legal requirement or that it will continue to be roadworthy for the next year. it is your resonsibility to keep the vehicle maintained so that it would always meet MOT standards and be frere from other defects"

i don't get why some many people think, just because i've got MOT my car is now legal and no one can touch me.

[2007GTI]

Did you actually read any of TT's posts?

You aren't doing yourself any favours and are still in the wrong sunshine.

Surely then, most mods at the end of the day can be hard to define as legal or not. The type of dash light in a car can be seen to be distracting, audio systems that breech noise regulations, front bumpers that would kill someone due to poor workmanship and fitting. Currently the laws surrounding the activities in a moving vehicle are ridiculous, it is illegal to change radio stations because of the amount of concentration you take off the road. I find it amusing they still sell cars with ashtrays and cigarette lighters; the amount of people pissing around lighting and smoking a cigarette is stupid.

At the end of the day is the MOT tester is going to pass my car then my car is road legal, its there responsibility as VOSA reps to do the correct procedures. To drive on the road you need an MOT certificate, tax and insurance. I have all of these and the last time the police checked it (while i had my HIDs) they were more than happy and let me on my way.

I think at the end of the day people should be putting alot more effort into getting uninsured (even though im sure you will turn it around and say im not insured, my mot certificate and insurance company say i am), un-liscened and dangerous drivers than worrying that someone had HIDs without auto washers. If you can be dazzled enough to crash on the road you shouldnt be driving! I have had people leave there full beams on, had the sun blind me when its come out from a house and various other everyday hazards and not been even close to an accident!

I would prefer to see the police catch real criminals and take down proper illegal drivers then go on a hunt for people with aftermarket HIDs.

[Jkctr]

Did you actually read any of TT's posts?

You aren't doing yourself any favours and are still in the wrong sunshine.

I have not at any point directed this discussion in an 'im right, you are wrong' way. Quite the opposite if you bothered to read the whole thread and saw i admitted i was fully wrong. Please grow up before you post such useless comments, you sound like frank butcher.

My point is, its just too hard to stop it and there are much worse things going on with cars that are illegal than aftermarket HIDs. I find it pathetic to get so worked up about it. I have them on at my own risk and i will continue to use them as they make it much safer at night for me. I would have never made it back from Italy without them, as after 1300 miles in one day, i was quite tired as it got dark and needed my lights like you wouldnt believe!
Being able to see more clearly makes me safer, TT's opinion, no matter how factual, on the matter wont affect my or any other of the millions of people whos cars are fitted with aftermarket HIDs decision.

Also my vehicle passed its mot last year with my HIDs and i made sure i left it the same so it passed next time, which it did. An MOT is a document which proves your car is road worthy and legal. I changed nothing on the car before or after! As i said if the MOT tester chose to pass it, the police officer who saw them chose to let me go and the insurance company who have insured them, then that means im legal as im insured, taxed and mot'd and both the MOT testers and insurers are fully aware of my HIDs.