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The legality of HID Units

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Wilso122

Guest
Took the other bike for an MOT last week and the tester pointed at a bit of paper explaining HID. It seemed that in themselves they are not illegal but the beam they cast could be cause for an MOT failure. As the top of the beam must be flat, most hid's are round, on a normal bulb there's that silver bit on the top that makes it flat. Even thought the lens is E makred.

So the bike failed the mot, luckily 10 minute job to swap out and passed...

Trying to find a HID bulb that casts a flat beam.

hth
 
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Boggymarsh

Guest
This is where there is such a grey area and because VOSA won't make a firm commitment to this issue you will find that some pass the MOT and others don't.

Have you read the whole of this thread by the way?
 
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mikeyw64

Guest
Took the other bike for an MOT last week and the tester pointed at a bit of paper explaining HID. It seemed that in themselves they are not illegal but the beam they cast could be cause for an MOT failure. As the top of the beam must be flat, most hid's are round, on a normal bulb there's that silver bit on the top that makes it flat. Even thought the lens is E makred.

So the bike failed the mot, luckily 10 minute job to swap out and passed...

Trying to find a HID bulb that casts a flat beam.

hth

WHich is why I went for the projector on GreyBird

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mikeyw64

Guest
Has your nose cone melted?

no , think it looks a little odd as I didn't quite get the alignment correct when installing the projector and had to shim it back with some washers to get it into the proper range
 

grant57

Registered User
Just fit them and stop worrying, you will not regret it, just be careful with headlight alignment!

Grant
 
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