Legality
Are HID Kits Legal?
This is a rather grey area.
Depending on where you look or ask you will receive different answers.
Here’s what we know:
The guidelines state that vehicles fitted with xenons may have a self-leveling system and a headlamp washer system.
The key word being ‘may’ and this is widely open to interpretation.
We found that if you use reasonable kelvin range (4300k -6000k) it generally causes less issues with other road users.
It is generally accepted that officially HID's are not road legal.
MOT Failure.
Providing your beam pattern is aligned there is nothing to worry about generally speaking, however some testing centres will check for self-leveling systems and washer systems.
If you have a reflector lens you should be using anti-glare bulbs if at all possible (all of our H7 bulbs are anti-glare by default and work just as fine in projector lenses).
We have supplied many clients around the globe and closer to home, we have supplied our very own boys and girls in blue (their private cars) and if its good enough for them…