Popular Post duncan Posted January 12, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2018 May 20th sees the introduction of revised requirements for MoT, whilst the headline commentary is on the dropping of testing requirements for “historic” vehicles their are other changes. Included in the proposal is that the retrofitting of HID lamps will be banned, but LED replacements are to be allowed - go figure. Aftermarket steering wheels without airbags (where the OEMs had an airbag) are now to be banned. See what else you can spot. Duncanhttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671818/mot-inspection-manual-for-classes-3-4-5-and-7-from-20-may-2018-draft.pdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushman Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 good shout Duncan. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham.reeds Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) So if I have HID lamps retrofitted before the May 20th date then it will be fine but after will fail? Or is any car with hid lamps going to fail? Is there a list that states whether hid was an option when the car was new? How will they know? To be honest, how many garages will care how it produces light? Edited January 19, 2018 by graham.reeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Reproduced below is the text from the draft procedures. “Some vehicles may be fitted with High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps. It is not permitted to convert existing halogen headlamp units for use with HID bulbs. If it is clear that such a conversion has been carried out, rather than replacing the entire unit with one designed and approved for use with HID bulbs, the headlamp should be rejected.” Thus if you have Litronics fitted as OEM whether before or after any date they are fine. If you have aftermarket HIDs replacing halogen bulbs, irrespective of when fitted that will become a fail. Will the garage know, who knows, however as this is a flagged up change so they should be aware of it. Keep in mind that OEM HIDs are / were only fitted in conjunction with headlamp washers and auto levelling and that it’s not a difficult job to spot whether washers are fitted. Will the garage care - probably best to assume so for at least a honeymoon period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggyjam Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 What are the fogs on a gen 2 non HID car? They look very white. Are they led? Hope they don’t ban H and R springs ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peopleandcars Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 link says not found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 The link when posted was a draft of the proposed regs and as the new regs came in on the 20th of May it’s presumably no longer available/relevant. A quick search under MoT Regulations on the web will give the current applicable state of play. As to whether anything changed between the regs as brought forward and the draft, I’ve no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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