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hey everyone

just so you all know, from august 9 2007 its is illegal to have any coloured lights other than stock colour on your car.............this includes parker lights, INTERIOR light etc , and your not allowed to have neons fitted at all.........you can and they will defect you for it

i found out the hard way last night,i had blue parker/interior light, the copper didnt defect me, but was going to, got off with a warning.

so if you have changed your interior light or parker or have neons i would probably recommend you change them so you dont get defected if you get pulled over.

cara

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Interesting about no neons but its always been illegal to have any other colour apart from white emitting from the front of the vehicle, blinkers excepted. :whistling:

i.e blue parkers or those blue tinged headlights.

As for the interior light.. what a load of crap lol

Ive been through regency more times then I would of liked and as far as I no this has always been defectable. Headlights/parkers have to be white or the legal ultra blue etc and visible neons have always been illegal and ricey.....

Ryan

I don't mean to be rude, but that sort of shit has been defectable since... EVER, this is nothing new.

Maybe back in the day you could get away with it because cops didn't really care, but now they do.

Things like that are not needed. If you want your car to look pretty for shows put them in then, otherwise you just draw attention to yourself and others and its going to hurt people with engine and non-bolt on mods a lot more.

Edited by barricade

id be laughing with joy and thankn the cop for a warning..lol

And as everyone has already mentioned every colour except white, or amber are illegal, and yes always have been! :laughing-smiley-014:

BB

Edited by boostd_r32_gurl
2 b honest i didnt really know cause ive seen other cars with different coloured parkers..........

but hey lesson learnt and i now have white ones :) all good!

Just wondering if by Interior you mean just the Map lights and the Light that goes on when the doors open...

Cause I wanna replace the backlights for my instrumentation panels & gauges... reckon that'd be defectable?

-D

i would say it mainly means the interior light that comes on when u open the door/map lights

however i could be wrong

who knows these days as it seems they will defect for anything and everything

Edited by MissR34

FYI:

http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/R/RO...LES%201999.aspx

my blue interior light was actually legal according to these rules

Division 13—Interior lights

107—Interior lights

A vehicle may be fitted with interior lights that illuminate any interior part of the

vehicle.

yeah thats what i said to the other guys on the cruise when u were with the cop.

aslong as they operate when the doors open they are legal. any neons that are operated buy a switch that u can turn on while your driving is illegal.

question....

i have a custom 2 guage setup install just above the cd player in the din slot. There those cheapo ones which can change like 7 different colours. i have em set to blue and they are quite bright. would this be illegal?

secondly. WTF!! its starting to get to the point where they are taking our rights away.

who would of ever imagined that you couldnt have a different colour light in your car or as gay as it is have a couple of neons inside your car. next theyll be telling us that all cars must only be the colour blue, black or white.

^^^ i would go to that site and download the pfd info.

i cant tell you whether its gonna be illegal. i am not the law, there is a number that you can call as well that allows you to ask someone whether something you are doing to your car is going to be illegal or not

That number is : 1300882247

The trick to calling vehicle standards is :

1) Call once and get told no its not legal

2) Call again and be told it is legal

3) Call again and get told yes its legal but only on Thursdays and every second sunday of the month

4) Get defect even after they say it is legal

5) Get to regency and they reem you for everything else and forget why you are there in the first place.

That number is : 1300882247

The trick to calling vehicle standards is :

1) Call once and get told no its not legal

2) Call again and be told it is legal

3) Call again and get told yes its legal but only on Thursdays and every second sunday of the month

4) Get defect even after they say it is legal

5) Get to regency and they reem you for everything else and forget why you are there in the first place.

so in other words, save ya $$$ on phone calls and spend the big $$$ at regy

what a load of shit hey

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