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Legality,

JVP was pretty much spot on the money. ADR's apply to 'new market' vehicles before first being sold.

What applies after this is the NVS - "National Vehicle Standards". In relation to lighting, pretty much an ADR duplicate.

Defect action would be on the basis of causing the compliant lamps to no longer be compliant.

Automotiove lamps must reach certain photometric performance criteria as outlined in ADR and World Standards, once a lamp has been 'tested' by an authorised testing agent, the lamp is given world compliance approval - the 'markings' you see on the lens of all automotive lamps. Compliance ceases once you bugger around with the lamp photometric performance, basically speaking 'brightness'.

Now at law, IF a crash happens on say a freeway under heavy fog (or in clear) and you have your taillights 'smoked' etc - and a person is seriously injured or killed by running into you, whilst generally speaking, the rear car is typically considered 'at fault', your 'contributory' actions can result in increased proportional blame, or blame directly being apportioned to you.

You could face even more severe consequence, or goal.

Whatever you do, just use a bit of commonsense, leave the rear red reflex reflectors alone, the rear fog that sort of thing. personally though, I'd not mess about with rear lighting, EXCEPT to buy compliant 'different' aftermarket taillights, see those markings again; "E marks" for a hint as to a lamps legality.

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yeh but its still tinting the lights. wether its bulb or LED, your still changing the amount of light that gets put out through the lense...

but if its emmiting more then wat it originally did...wats the problem?

isnt that wat modifications are?

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there will probably be a standard for bulbs and a standard for LED's, if the light that get put out of either falls below that standard, then it will be illigal.

but hey i might be wrong, why dont you go ask Department of transport?? :blush:

CJ

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the best thing and most unique characteristic of a skyline is the red stove tops... tinting em black is like a stripper getting a boob job to reduce her bust size.

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