I think in the IVA regs it says they have to be E Marked or of equivalent
intensity
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From: "Dave the Subbie" <[email protected]>
To: "Quantum Owners Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:09 PM
Subject: [Quantum Owners] Re: More lights
My bike failed it's MoT due to lack of a reflector. A £2.00 stick-on
one fixed it. The shop had a card of them, because they are often
missing on imported bikes. The bike had had at least 3 or 4 MoTs
before anyone noticed. Have since noted stick-on reflectors on a
number of bikes, so it must be something the testers have been
reminded of.
As Mark says, lights are supposed to be E-marked. Whether that applies
to cars of the age of ours I don't know, but it was a requirement of
the SVA test and, as our local police check bike exhausts for CE
marks, I wouldn't put it past them to check your lights too.
Sorry to be a party-pooper..!
Now, what about finding some nice, E-marked, flush, twin headlamps for
the coupe and/or 2+2?
In fact, will these be needed for the new car to meet IVA, Eddie?
Dave.
On Feb 21, 8:02 pm, "Susan and Martin Scott"
<[email protected]> wrote:
On the Last Chance Saloon I fitted some reflectors (with the reflector
pealed off) within the fog lights - they only mask 1/2 of the fog light,
and the reflector is provided by the fog light reflector (I nicked the
idea from an old Quantum Mechanics - my apoologies for not knowing the
author). Anyway they work well and were passed at SVA.
Martin
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From: Jim Hearne
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Quantum Owners] Re: More lights
My Saloon passed an MOT with no rear reflectors.
I fitted clear MK2 fiesta lights with coloured bulbs. (Mk1 Fiesta lights
have the reflector in the centre of the light cluster, Mk2 have the
reversing lights there and reflectors on the bumper).
Use a clear bulb in the centre of the cluster on one side for a reversing
light and a red one on the other side for the fog light.
Jim
From: Mark Miles
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Quantum Owners] Re: More lights
I am not sure that you could do that and remain legal. I have a spare set
of taillights that I was planning to do the same thing with.... I like the
look of leds. All electrical equipment fitted to cars is supposed to be E
approved. How this applies to our cars I don't know nor do I know whether
it is something that an MOT would check. My perfect solution would be to
be able to get a smoked acrylic moulding the same as the sierra taillight
cluster and to build the LED cluster myself. As the sierra lenses are
tinted you would be limited on any changes you would want to make to the
layout. You also need to have reflectors showing to the rear, this is
usually built into the light cluster. It would look quite unpleasant
having an extra reflector stuck on somewhere IMHO.
Mark Miles
Manager
Bar Square
8 Market Place
Wokingham
Berkshire
RG40 1AL
07565 110439
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From: MatthewG <[email protected]>
To: Quantum Owners Group <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 15:01
Subject: [Quantum Owners] Re: More lights
Jim is right that the brake lights must be separate and some way apart
from the rear fog lights. I have a figure of them needing to be 10cm
apart in my head (but I could well have made that up...).
The third-brake flasher idea seems quite nifty. I'd just need to add a
third brake light to my 2+2 first...
Going back to the original point about using LEDs though, I was always
a fan of Maserati's 'boomerang-style' LED rear lights. I'm sure that
we could come up with something along those lines that both meets the
regulations and gives our cars a bit more individuality. I'd bought
myself a couple of flexible LED strips to play with and was thinking
of tracking down a set of Sierra lights to use as a template for
holding them (that would still fit if my tinkering worked). I bet that
someone with more skill than me can come up with something far
prettier and more cheaply.
Matthew
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