fitting HID to standard lights

[clio1.2_16V]

how do you fit HID lights to standard lights and how the bulbs clip in?

 

[inpassing]

they should come with guide

 

[SimonR.]

This will fail the MOT as of December this year just for your information, you could also get pulled over for it too

 

[inpassing]

This will fail the MOT as of December this year just for your information, you could also get pulled over for it too

how come?

 

[SimonR.]

Because they blind people

 

[inpassing]

Because they blind people

what if your car is fitten with hid's?

 

[SimonR.]

Factory fitted are fine as they have projectors, auto levelling and washer jets. Retrofit ones will not pass

 

[Chapster5]

Simon is there any hard evidence of this? Ive been searching google but cant find anything other than the kits being banned back in 2003?

 

[JCC]

HIDs in standard reflector headlights don't make the correct beam pattern, therefore they shouldn't pass an MOT.

 

[SimonR.]

It is on the mot update list and was on the one show last week

 

[Chapster5]

Ill try and get a copy on Google

Thanks

 

[colossuss]

They also melt the insides of your headlight lenses, as I have found out

 

[SimonR.]

There's a thread with the link on here if you search. I'm on my phone ATM so can't get it

 

[Chapster5]

Think I got it

From the government:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/drs/hidheadlamps

Thread:

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?413180-HID-Kit-Mot-Fail&highlight=HID+lights

They are not illegal provided you buy the headlight unit also and not just the bulbs as the reflector in the original head lights break the beam up of the HID and causes it to not be focused any more and can dazzle on coming vehicles

 

[colossuss]

From the government:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/drs/hidheadlamps

They are not illegal provided you buy the headlight unit also and not just the bulbs as the reflector in the original head lights break the beam up of the HID and causes it to not be focused any more and can dazzle on coming vehicles

Just to make this clearer, they are illegal if you do not have:
-Projector headlights (Rather than reflective, like the Ph1 non-sports)
-Headlight washer jets
-Automatically adjusting headlights

So even just buying the Xenon headlights from a 1*2 means they would still be illegal