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[azza_126]

Borrowed a mate of mines ramps the other day to do an oil change. He's an MOT tester and has been for years - said from next year HIDs will be a fail too. Shame that. Will people just be swapping them out for normal bulbs before the test and refitting or leaving them in and hoping for the best?

My car is almost there, got the headlight washers. Self leveling and I'll be sorted. Although I begrudge spending money on something like that when the lights are perfectly aligned and don't dazzle anyone with them being in proper projector lenses too.

if the hid's (aftermarket bulb kits) dont have self leveing headlights and washers there classed as illigal anyway but im a tester iv got those kits on my car and tbh i wouldnt fail them to me there just brighter bulbs

[Galahad]

Isn't Towbar electrics testing also coming out as well?

If you have a towbar fitted with electrics, the electrics must work properly.

[Auto Addict]

Isn't Towbar electrics testing also coming out as well?

If you have a towbar fitted with electrics, the electrics must work properly.

Makes sense.

[Entwood]

Isn't Towbar electrics testing also coming out as well?

If you have a towbar fitted with electrics, the electrics must work properly.

Unfortunately .. not quite ...

Only those of us with modern 13 pin electrics, so probably less than 5 years old, will be checked.

All the chancers with 12N/12S systems that are ancient, and more prone to problems, will not be checked.

Targeting the "wrong" area IMHO .. if tow-bar electrics are to be checked .... then ALL should be checked .. not just the easy to do ones.

[Auto Addict]

Isn't Towbar electrics testing also coming out as well?

If you have a towbar fitted with electrics, the electrics must work properly.

Unfortunately .. not quite ...

Only those of us with modern 13 pin electrics, so probably less than 5 years old, will be checked.

All the chancers with 12N/12S systems that are ancient, and more prone to problems, will not be checked.

Targeting the "wrong" area IMHO .. if tow-bar electrics are to be checked .... then ALL should be checked .. not just the easy to do ones.

I'm a 'chancer', but I keep the electrics in tip top condition.

[Chris_H]

basically then the new mot laws are---

if you have it it has to work !!!!!

i know alot of it is commonsense but i personally know several people who have never looked under a bonnet and totally rely on the car to tell them if something is wrong which i think is becoming increasingly more common, so in this instance i think the new laws are spot on 

Because that is how they want us to think, cant work on our cars anymore, all computer controlled, none of the old checks, just rely on the computer.....

i have to agree vamps....

i was talking to my old man the other day who ws basically saying how everyone years ago was under the bonnet of their cars working but now ''you can't do anything cos its all computers''. thats clearly 'dangle berries' but its what people are made to believe.

Maybe

[Kevin Wood]

Even after all these new rules we'll still have wannabe drifters driving round on the public roads with welded up diffs, of course.