Fog Light Colour

[Mr Morse]

Having read Jason's excellent write-up on doing his front fogs, I was wondering - what does the law say about the colour of the lamps?

I have some H3 8500K bright white/blue Xenon bulbs but won't go to the trouble if they are not legal.

[Rob]

front fogs can be white or yellow i believe

[MrADeveci]

I have some H3 8500K bright white/blue Xenon bulbs but won't go to the trouble if they are not legal.

That's fine ............

[LowRed]

the fog lights in mine are 100watt PIAA plasma blue, to match the head lights, by law they should be white or yellow but as you don't need front fogs (some cars don't have any) why not be different and have red green or purple, or tint the lens with some Foliatec??? lots of options!!! :D :D :D

[Brettster]

but if you do have fog lights fitted, then Im sure they need to be in working order and legal in order to pass MOT?

The fogs on my GS are yellow, came from the factory that way

[PhoneDrome]

You opened the lightcluster and modified them. They aren't road legal anymore. Think there are the EC Directives? But the mot-master doesn't know that they are modified :)

[Baby Shake]

You opened the lightcluster and modified them. They aren't road legal anymore. Think there are the EC Directives? But the mot-master doesn't know that they are modified :)

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That's right Andi, opening them up invalidates the CE Bull**** logo, but what I want to do is just replace the bulbs, without opening up the light units.

Didn't know if a blue tint was UK legal though.... :o

[Mr Morse]

You opened the lightcluster and modified them. They aren't road legal anymore. Think there are the EC Directives? But the mot-master doesn't know that they are modified :)

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That's right Andi, opening them up invalidates the CE Bull**** logo, but what I want to do is just replace the bulbs, without opening up the light units.

Didn't know if a blue tint was UK legal though.... :o

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That was me replying, BTW

[PhoneDrome]

Ah. I see. It's legal if the bulb has an E-mark printed to the mount.

Should be the same like in Germany. If not the same it will be within the next years

Click for big:

Do you see the [E1]-Mark (E1 for Germany)

Lense-Markingcodes: LINK

Not very usefull for UK me thinks. But interesting.

[eXOBeX]

8500s should look nice with LED sidelights. My 4000K Philips "Blue Vision" still aren't as blue as my white LED clusters!