On 29/03/2021 14:57, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
However, not all cars type approved and factory fitted with HID or LED
headlamps have self-levelling or wash systems - the MOT rules have had
to take this into account and a vehicle can fail for such systems not
working, but cannot fail for them not being present. If such lights were
an option for your vehicle, you can retrofit them.

Think you'll find all HID equipped cars have headlight washers. And if not
self-levelling headlights, self-levelling rear suspension.

No, they definitely do not. It was (and may still be) a problem for
MOTs. Under EU rules, any vehicle given type approval by any other EU
country has to be accepted in all others and some were approved without
self-levelling or washing. It was also accepted that some (sports) cars
with very stiff suspension would not require self-levelling either. To
allow for that, here the rules specify that not being fitted with
self-levelling or washing is not a reason for failure, but in Northern
Ireland, the same exemption was not written in and caused failures of
some type approved vehicles. I don't know if NI has changed the rules
there since.

And since the
latter may not be fitted across the range, changing to E-marked non self
levelling headlamps to a vehicle without it could be against the regs.

But not where other vehicles in the range were approved without
self-levelling and washing.

The whole thing is badly thought out.

I can agree with that.