Archive fron the MBC Club Forum

As you do if you are perplexed by something you go digging. I dug this up from the forum. A thread was running on the Bi-xenon lights with nearly 200 postings

I was originally posted by white nemesis

This below was posted by Guy Fawkes

I know personally of three traffic plod who check for aftermarket lights after an accident, any accident, even minor ones.Suddenly finding yourself and vehicle uninsured utterly transforms your day.As a biker I am of the opinion that every vehicle with defective (eg illegal or MOT failure) lights should be crushed...tonight, as it started to spatter with rain, three vehicles in a row with defective headlights followed by a **** in a range rover with xenons bouncing over the sleeping policemen and flashing the ISS, if I had NOT been doing 20 in a residential zone (the oncoming stuff was doing 30-35) I would have killed the small boy in dark clothing on a bmx bike with no lights.

He then went on to write.

If you actually need anything better than 55/60 tungsten filament lights you probably are…. Speeding, or have defective vision.

Epilogue

The vehicle in question was surprise. A Range Rover.

I am often asked are these vehicles that are dazzling others in lots of accidents. The answer is no. The problem is what the lights do to others and as Guy Fawkes explains it is the other chavvies that dazzle and blind you drive of Scot free leaving you [for dead] or in a predicament that would not have happened if the lights were set correctly.


It is my opinion that a far stricter MOT is needed for the Bi-xenon headlamp but Guy Fawkes view makes complete sense if you drive mostly at night. With views like this why do the Manufacturers and Government ignore us? It would be appreciated if you vote to change the current regulation with the link below. Thanks


Petition to: revise the RVLR 1989 regulation

If you live in the USA and many other places around the World and have the more sensitive eyes that find Daytime Running Lights distract making added dangers for you go to the DaDRL and vote:-

DaDRL UK Vote against Daytime Running Lights