MOT & Driving Lights

They don't constitute "statutory lights" and are not testable.

Its these:

Give you a clue, it's not 5 or 21W.

fitted with driving

I have not

the MOT as they

I don't know for sure, but I thaught there was a statutory minimum hight for headlights. 16" from the ground rings a bell, which AFAIK is why fog lights are illegal to use in normal conditions. Sounds like your 'driving lights' would be below that limit. Mike.

Grunff mumbled:

Don't think so. Everyone I know says Sidelights>Dip>Main

Says who. This should start another lengthy and probably fruitless discussion.

Bob

I am reasonably certain that any lights fitted should work, however this is not the same as the MoT requirements, which is the actual question.

Certainly MoT stations do not check auxiliary front driving lamps or fog lamps, even when they are original equipment. Yet I am fairly certain that any lamps fitted should work in order to be legal when the car is in use.

MrCheerful

Don't think so. Main beam and high beam are the same - but only the one name for dip.

Then there are those of us who have older cars with Dim/Dip lights too...

:-)

David.

Or sidelights>dip>normal? I guess it depends where you drive, but most of the time I have my headlights on they're on normal = high/main setting.

Country lanes, y'see - buggerall else about except the local foxes & badgers. Badgers can be hard to see at night.

Main beam is high beam.

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Ivor

Ivor mumbled:

Possibly post 88, but then they stopped 'em again after only a few years. Our E-reg Maestro had 'em, but my K-reg doesn't.

I think it was October 1986.

Are you sure about this ? I thought they were an EU law that is still in force today.

Dim-dip lights were a bit of a fad in the late 80s/early 90s. They'd gone by '92, roughly the same time as when headlamp adjustment came in.