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Ivor mumbled:

You're only allowed to show amber or white to the front (but yellow is still allowed for headlights). Blue and green are reserved colours and are not allowed for any unauthorised vehicles.

Probably the best solution is for him to stop being a Novaboy and take 'em off. Why wave red rags at bulls?

Guy King wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk:

Thanks for the clarification,I agree but he's not a Novaboy he's a Corsaboy.

Ivor

Depends whether you think a corsa is any better than a nova?

The Dervboy

"Tony Morland" mumbled:

Tony, why does your newsreader insert the >>> marks before what you've written? It makes it really hard to see what you've said 'cos I'm expecting /your/ contribution no to have any...on account of how that's what they're for!

We sell these things (and LED bolts for number plates plus other good earners) and have heard of many people being pulled up about them so we asked a couple of traffic cops (regular customers) what the legalities of them actually are; both cops said that as far as they knew, there was not actually any law that makes them illegal to use. Make of that what you will (coppers can be wrong, too) but I recommend owners to fit them with a a switch avoid using them on the road if they don't want to get stopped a lot :)

Not sure about those lights but I really hope the under-car illumination thats all the rage now is illegal. Instead of the nice even glow under the cars in Fast and the Furious all I've seen on British roads are a Nova, Corsa and 306 with 4 frickin strip lights postioned around the car, so whilst you still get the underglow, you also get the look of 4 lightsabers attached to each side of the car as well. Looks s**te and is very off-putting. The green lit Nova I seen tonight was fairly dim, but the 306 was incredibly bright and very off-putting.

Chris.

"chris@ukaskew" mumbled:

Bit like the driver?

I asked a traffic cop the same question, he said that if they were wired through the ignition then they are illegal. If wired through a seperate switch then legal....!

"Kay" mumbled:

I suspect that's not true /per se/, but because of its effects...when wired through a switch you can choose not to display an illegal light, but without one you're always doing it whenever you're on the Queen's Highway.

I think you might regret posting this

Saw a guy with these in Beverley last week on a Corsa, quite a quick corsa too (he was turning towards Hull) - so I followed (as I live in hull) from a distance, soon as I put my foot down and the Volvo grille was big in his mirrors he turned the lights off and dropped down to 60...

They'd still be illegal in use.

Dave Plowman mumbled:

On the highway.

Or even just a normal street?

silver S60. But looks similar from front and was gaining on him rapidly.

You drive a white V70 then...............

Alan

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But not in a private car park, where novaboys tend to hang out when they're not gooning around the city streets.

The Dervboy

"DervBoy" wrote in news:bggoat$odth8$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-151362.news.uni-berlin.de:

Ivor