Red SLR Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 Whilst surfing I have come accross the following lights. Surely they must save a few kg? http://www.performancemotorcycleparts.co.uk/accessories_pages/led_tail_lights.htm I hear you can also get them in amber, so you could do away with your light cluster.... question.gif X777CAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 I don't think LED's are road legal......something about the construction and use regs stating bulbs must be incandescent. You could use them as "auxillary" lights, but not as main lights to replace your light cluster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Saunders Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 I think they must be legal as Yamaha use LED rear lights as standard fitment on the new R6 ... Jimmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 Not for cars........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 Blatman - Doesnt the new Maserati use LED's for its rear lights ????? dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red SLR Posted October 9, 2001 Author Share Posted October 9, 2001 As far as I know they are legal. X777CAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoggoth Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 The TVR Tuscan (original, not Tuscan S) has rear indicators composed of LEDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon B Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 Jag X type and S use rear LED, so we can assume their legal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelspeed Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 Puegeot 205GTi's all had spot lights (came on with main beam, not fog lights) mounted under the bumper which is illegal and there were thousands of them on the road, lots of other cars have done the same since. So don't assume just because something is done on a mainstream car it must be legal. We have archaic vehicle legislation that was written a million years ago. When the regs were written nobody had invented LEDs so they wrote incandescent to stop someone having a burning candle or whatever. Some manufacturers like Yamaha, TVR and Jaguar are obviously brave enough to say thats a stupid law so we'll ignore it. A brake light with say 50 LEDs each of which lasts longer than a bulb and even if half of them stop working still shows up is so obviously safer than a single brake light bulb that it's ridiculous to enforce it. Unfortunatly we only ever get new legislation, nobody ever gets rid of old redundant legislation first they just add new on top of it. Ignore the law just do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allegro Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 IGNORE THE LAW JUST DO IT. Wahey! wheres my shotgun question.gif teeth.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red SLR Posted October 9, 2001 Author Share Posted October 9, 2001 I think two of the smaller LED lights would look good on the roll bar, esp as the act as running lights at 1/2 brightness and then go to full brightness when you press the brakes. X777CAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 Looks like my info is out of date.......... However the Yamaha web site calls the led's "bulb type" led's.... Edited by - Blatman on 9 Oct 2001 14:43:35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 Following on from this, why is it that a newly built Caterham doesn't need an auxilary brake light? I was under the impression that all new cars since 90something had to be thus equipped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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