Headlight Switch

[b1k3rdude]

1. - Do you have any evidence to suggest that the beam pattern from a FAZER reflector will fail an MOT if fitted with a HID bulb or not?, preferably with supporting evidence.
   
2. - A brighter light will make things more noticeable - but given that the whole point of the excercise is to be noticed.
   
3. - Fyi, any forward facing light that is not white is also an MOT fail. Wrong. Think of indicators, they face forward don't they?
   
4. - White light is generally considered by scientists to be between 2.5k and 10k with the daylight being between 5 and 6.5k Kelvin.
   
5. - Self leveling suspension is not specifically mentioned for motobikes, but since self-leveling suspension is not defined for motorcycles, again tester discretion is involved. 
   
6. - At the end of the day, if you are unlucky enough to fail an MOT, it takes less then five minutes to unplug them and replace one bub with the traditional H4 bulb you carry under your seat. No tools required. 
   

1. my local MOT testing station and I would have to take some before and after pics at night to show you how the scatter can effect oncoming and well as traffic to the side.
   
2. And there is the logic, the reflector wasnt designed to cater for bulbs that are 300% brighter. Most motorcycle reflector based headlights have scatter, which is good when using stock bulbs but bad with HID because the resultant scatter is so much brights it dazzles oncoming and adjacent traffic. Again i would have to take pics to hammer home the point/
   
3. I'm referring to forward facing headlights not warning lights - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/...ule/4/made
   
4. You and I both know anything above 5k is the beginning of the blue end of the spectrum as far as human sight goes.
   
5. Fair enough.
   
6. Agreed.
   

Just to nip some things in the bud, I don't have a problem with HID's. My issues are, those telescopic kits  - the vast majority are cheap Chinese items that should be avoided like the plague because the baffles are so poorly designed that they add to the scatter problem. I have yet to see a kit that has correct amount of baffling (I made my own ages ago and the plan was to get a local enginering shop to make a laser cut version, but I never got around to it) And the colour, anything above 5k is asking to be pulled by the old bill and/or fail an MOT.