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[philayl]

Hi All, spotted these headlight bulbs on Ebay, are they road legal?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-Plasma-Blue-Super-White-H1-H7-H3-Xenon-Car-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ110187232981QQihZ001QQcategoryZ23009QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

[Taxi_Driver]

A miss guiding add imo.......how can you quote input power and give higher output power........you dont get more output power than you put in.

I guess the 55w input power ones would be, but certainly the 100w ones wouldnt be........they would be off road use only imo

[hotel21]

Apart from the electrical claims of the add which are hopefull, to say the least, the lamps require to be legal.

Lighting regs can be fun......  Amongst other things, all lamps should carry a type approval mark as per the following excerpt from the Road vehicles Lighting Regs 1989..

Filament lamps
    14.—(1)  Where a motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1986 or any trailer manufactured on or after 1st October 1985 is equipped with any lamp of a type that is required by any Schedule to these Regulations to be marked with an approval mark, no filament lamp other than a filament lamp referred to in the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations in (a)  regulation 4 and Schedule 2, items 2 or 2A, 8, 20, 37 or 37A; or (b)  regulation 5 and Schedule 4, item 18, shall be fitted to any such lamp.

Thats the 'E' or type approval mark.  

HtH

[philayl]

A miss guiding add imo.......how can you quote input power and give higher output power........you dont get more output power than you put in.

I guess the 55w input power ones would be, but certainly the 100w ones wouldnt be........they would be off road use only imo

Very true TD, that one slipped by me  

[philayl]

Apart from the electrical claims of the add which are hopefull, to say the least, the lamps require to be legal.

Lighting regs can be fun......  Amongst other things, all lamps should carry a type approval mark as per the following excerpt from the Road vehicles Lighting Regs 1989..

Filament lamps
    14.—(1)  Where a motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1986 or any trailer manufactured on or after 1st October 1985 is equipped with any lamp of a type that is required by any Schedule to these Regulations to be marked with an approval mark, no filament lamp other than a filament lamp referred to in the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations in (a)  regulation 4 and Schedule 2, items 2 or 2A, 8, 20, 37 or 37A; or (b)  regulation 5 and Schedule 4, item 18, shall be fitted to any such lamp.

Thats the 'E' or type approval mark.  

HtH

I did notice that any E mark reference was noticeably missing from the description.

[waspy]

I think you'll find that unless their E marked, they'll be illegal.
100 Watts are cetainly not road legal, although i have a mate that runs a car spares shop & he's sold some to the local police.
You can allways tell which are the 100 Watters, because their the ones dazzling you from behind BIG time

[Elite Pete]

The other problem would be the display on your MID might show you have a bulb out with the 100 watters

[Bandit127]

Not to mention the extra (nearly) 100% current carried by the wiring loom above what it was designed for. May not be a problem for Vx cars but 80W bulbs can melt motorbike wires.

Jim

[Jay w]

Not to mention the extra (nearly) 100% current carried by the wiring loom above what it was designed for. May not be a problem for Vx cars but 80W bulbs can melt motorbike wires.

Jim

they can cause similar damage to car looms as well

[Martin_1962]

I used to run 100/80s and 130w driving lights on the Sunbeam