LED Road Lights
Presumably the requirement/recommendation for the carriage of spare bulbs for cars is slipping by the wayside as more are fitted with LED Lights. The manual for my own car is quite clear that lights have to be changed by an approved workshop as special tools
are required (I feel a bill coming on) though LED lights are supposed to last the life of the car
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I once pulled along side an Aston Martin at the traffice lights after a little 'race' ...... I let him win
I asked if he knew
that half his rear led light cluster was out. He did, but as Aston had quoted him over £400 for a new one, he was leaving it a while!0 -
makes you wonder if the cost of replacing zenon/LED lights is the reason you see so many cars with one headlight out
My previous car had HIDs as satandard (which is more than my Merc has) The HID 'bulbs' in it when it was scrapped at around 15yr old were the originals
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I had a work colleague whose hi level brake light on her BMW was LED and a small mortgage was needed to replace it.
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Ha, but if you have a Volvo ( mine is the XC 70) you have to completely remove the headlights to get at the lever, and then again on return.. Much simpler to fit beam deflectors which are pretty cheap
But you can't use beam deflectors on HIDs ... they just scatter the light and end up blinding Pierre & Herman anyway.
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Ha, but if you have a Volvo ( mine is the XC 70) you have to completely remove the headlights to get at the lever, and then again on return.. Much simpler to fit beam deflectors which are pretty cheap
How unhelpful of Volvo. My (German built) car has a setting in the electronic car systems menu for driving on the Right / Left of the road and adjusts the headlight accordingly. Damn clever them Germans.
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Ha, but if you have a Volvo ( mine is the XC 70) you have to completely remove the headlights to get at the lever, and then again on return.. Much simpler to fit beam deflectors which are pretty cheap
How unhelpful of Volvo. My (German built) car has a setting in the electronic car systems menu for driving on the Right / Left of the road and adjusts the headlight accordingly. Damn clever them Germans.
It seems that Volvo must have been looking at what others were doing http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=155725
My German ... but USA built ... car has a simple lever in each headlight, though they can be adjusted in situ
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I once pulled along side an Aston Martin at the traffice lights after a little 'race' ...... I let him win
I asked if he knew
that half his rear led light cluster was out. He did, but as Aston had quoted him over £400 for a new one, he was leaving it a while!If he can afford an Aston Martin £400 is small change to him.
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All road lights fitted as standard, including LEDs must be fully working or else MOT failure. The only exception being high level brake lights as these are classed as additional stop lights.
I'm never too long from an MOT ...... I'll ask!
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Looking at the rules for MOT
All road lights fitted as standard, including LEDs must be fully working or else MOT failure. The only exception being high level brake lights as these are classed as additional stop lights.
Looking at the
rules for MOT I'd say you were incorrect .... a much used phrase for a fail beingb. inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating
and single led wouldn't be 50%
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Molly as a mot tester your definitely right, but high level lights are classed as just lights unless you can prove it is a brake light ie 7 out of 10 leds are out then it fails for more than 50% of light out, if it doesn't light at all its an advise cause
we don't know it's a brake light! But it's a grey area like a lot of the mot!0
