Blue Light issue.

[Webbo]

Hi,

Picking Wife up from town yesterday got behind police car see him looking in rear veiw mirror quite a bit and low and behold the next conveinent momement lights went on I pulled over.

The reason I was stopped was because of my blue angel eyes on my roof, I was told that they were iilegal and if the traffic boys pulled me I would be getting a fine !

I didnt think that these were illegal unless they were flashing ?

Any of you clued up guys shed any "LIGHT" on this for me.

Thanks.

[spoofer28]

same happened to me basicly its illigal to have blue lights on the front
and i think there is also an issue with blue reflective tape
the only exeption is commercials?????

[Koi]

You can't have blue on a veh, connected, covered up it makes no difference you just can't have them.

In the regulations, lights, reflectors and reflective material are all classed as lights on cars (this means that the public cannot have blue reflective graphics for example).

Any colour light is OK to be on a vehicle if it is covered up or not connected up (excluding blue).

Only emergency vehicles can be fitted with a blue flashing light, or anything that looks like a blue flashing light, whether working or not.

You can’t have a red light showing at the front except:
a red and white chequered light on a fire service control vehicle
a side marker
a reflector on the wheel of a cycle, motorbike or invalid carriage
a traffic sign attached to the vehicle

You can only have a steady white light to the front and a steady red light showing to the rear of your vehicle. The exceptions to this are:

BLUE
flashing from an emergency vehicle
flashing or constant from a police vehicle

GREEN

on a doctor’s car

WHITE
reversing lights
work lamps

AMBER
any vehicle’s indicators
amber pedal reflectors or pedal lights
reflected from a registration plate
reflected from a road clearance vehicle
reflected from a vehicle carrying dangerous substances
reflected on some old or heavy vehicles
flashing amber lights on
a road clearance vehicle
a bin lorry
a breakdown vehicle
a vehicle with a 25 mph top speed
a vehicle wider than 2.9 metres
a roadworks vehicle
an escort vehicle
a Revenue and Customs vehicle
a surveying vehicle
a clamping or tow truck vehicle
airport vehicles
any other specially authorised vehicle

ANY COLOUR
for interior lighting
for registration plate lighting
for taxi meter lighting
for bus route sign lighting
from a traffic sign attached to a vehicle
any colour from the reflectors on a wheel of a cycle, motorbike or invalid carriage

ALSO
white and blue chequered light from a police control vehicle
white and red chequered light from a fire control vehicle
white and green chequered light from an ambulance control vehicle

[charvell]

it will fail its mot with incorrect colour lights at the front.... i have blue angle eye spots at the front and they it failed the mot on them.. simple job to unplug them before the test next time. not had any interest from the old bill though.

[Webbo]

Thanks Guys n Gals for such a full, and detailed reply.

Think what I'll do is carry on as normal, as I very seldom go into our town at night if can be helped.

As suggested I can pull the separate fuse for the Angel Eyes for the MOT, will keep all posted on my dodgy progress.

[KERRSURF]

My angel spots had a definite blue tinge to them and it passed MOT no problem.

[Albannach]

Who did your MOT Alan? Mine is overdue!