Coloured lights on cars

Testament1

Right so i got stopped the other night for having blue lights on the front of my car and informed that they're illegal for all non emergency services vehicles. Fair enough i guess. But what im wondering is whats the legality of other colours such as green, yellow etc?? Whats the legislation on these kind of things?

Hooch

Testament1 wrote: »

Right so i got stopped the other night for having blue lights on the front of my car and informed that they're illegal for all non emergency services vehicles. Fair enough i guess. But what im wondering is whats the legality of other colours such as green, yellow etc?? Whats the legislation on these kind of things?

Totally illegal.

Section 41Road Traffic (Lighting of vehicle) Regulations 1963.

Irish Statute Book wrote:

41. (1) (a) A vehicle shall not be equipped with lighting which when lit shows any light to the front of the vehicle except a white or yellow light.

TestTransmission

Is it a fine or what?

Hooch

jackncoke wrote: »

Is it a fine or what?

Yep. Summons to court. General penalty under 102 applies I think

tossy

Why would you have blue lights on your car?

antodeco

Were they bluebulbs or flashing blue lights?

TestTransmission

antodeco wrote: »

Were they bluebulbs or flashing blue lights?

Here by the looks of it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63408160#post63408160

Testament1

Blue ring on the outside of a fog light. Not flashing either. Yep thats the one in the post above. They aren't even on half the time so bad luck havin em on that night!

ronaneire

Looks like you were just unlucky, if you didnt get stopped then you would have at some stage.
I wonder about all the other cars, vans & trucks on the road that have blue lights, leds on the them? Are they all getting pulled over the Guards? Or is it just oh here comes a modified car lets pull them over and give them grief?

Testament1

I think its also the luck of the draw when it comes to what guards are around aswell because iv driven past a fair few guards around the town with them on before and nothing was ever said.

cson

Er, bad luck doesn't have anything to do with it. They're illegal - get rid of them

The-Game

Testament1 wrote: »

Blue ring on the outside of a fog light. Not flashing either. Yep thats the one in the post above. They aren't even on half the time so bad luck havin em on that night!

So did they issue you a fine or take your details to send a court summons? Or did they just say turn them off they're illegal?

Testament1

cson wrote: »

Er, bad luck doesn't have anything to do with it. They're illegal - get rid of them

Well theres a white light selectable on them aswel so it was bad luck i had it onto blue that night;)

Testament1

The-Game wrote: »

So did they issue you a fine or take your details to send a court summons? Or did they just say turn them off they're illegal?

Ya im going to be summonsed for the lights and the exhaust. Overall and expensive trip to town for food!:rolleyes:

TheColl

Testament1 wrote: »

Ya im going to be summonsed for the lights and the exhaust. Overall and expensive trip to town for food!:rolleyes:

whats wrong with the exhaust?

biko

I know you got them cause they're cool and all, but having blue lights in front is really bad, particularly if you can set them to flash.
Not very likely you'd get mistaken for garda in that car, but still.
/old fart speech

Rev. BlueJeans

No harm to see the cops pulling for those ridiculous add-ons.

I see some goons around here that can be heard coming a mile away, yokes that have less to do with performance and more to do with a "look at me" mentality, and every inch of them plastered with for sale signs.

/rant

Testament1

Magnus wrote: »

I know you got them cause they're cool and all, but having blue lights in front is really bad, particularly if you can set them to flash.
Not very likely you'd get mistaken for garda in that car, but still.
/old fart speech

Well i've already said that they can't be set to flash blue.

Mc Love

I have white LED sidelights on the car and they have a blue-ish tint. Look good!

Rev. BlueJeans

Why have flashing lights at all though? I don't get it.

Testament1

Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »

No harm to see the cops pulling for those ridiculous add-ons.

I see some goons around here that can be heard coming a mile away, yokes that have less to do with performance and more to do with a "look at me" mentality, and every inch of them plastered with for sale signs.

/rant

No for sale signs anywhere on my Levin and since its a full system upgrade from the manifold back there is a good difference in performance between whats on it now and what comes as standard.

Testament1

Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »

Why have flashing lights at all though? I don't get it.

Again I've already said they're not flashing lights.

Rev. BlueJeans

Testament1 wrote: »

Again I've already said they're not flashing lights.

Sorry, I'm not trying to pick on you here-but you've already said they can be set to flash: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63408160&postcount=1379

Not a nice thing to get pulled-but why was your exhaust flagged, noise?

ContyHooks

I don't get why people have these blue lights on their cars at all, every time I see them I just think "trying to look like the gardai, what a tool".

Testament1

Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »

Sorry, I'm not trying to pick on you here-but you've already said they can be set to flash: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63408160&postcount=1379

Not a nice thing to get pulled-but why was your exhaust flagged, noise?

Yes but they flash through 5 or 6 colours on a loop they wont flash on just one. And i've never had them flashing on the road just to clarify. Yep got pulled for the noise, didnt think the noise was that bad myself considering that i do have a silencer in the back section of the pipe.

Testament1

ContyHooks wrote: »

I don't get why people have these blue lights on their cars at all, every time I see them I just think "trying to look like the gardai, what a tool".

Not trying to be smart but anyone that mistakes my car for a garda car is a tool!

Rev. BlueJeans

Seems pointless to me to festoon a car with lights, but if it doesn't break the law or impact on road safety, each to their own. I think in fairness that you were well aware of the possibility of attracting police attention though

I'd find a noisy exhaust far more of an annoyance personally.

ContyHooks

Testament1 wrote: »

Not trying to be smart but anyone that mistakes my car for a garda car is a tool!

Yes and nobody does, they just think the owner of the car is a tool.

Berty

One rule for you but another rule for truck drivers.

They have blue lights on their trucks and of late I have seen many commercial vehicles with flashing RED LED's. They are also illegal.

markpb

Berty wrote: »

I have seen many commerical vehicles with flashing RED LED's.

Bikes?

The-Game

Ive seen Bikes even with Blue LEDs visible on the front, they dont flash but theyre still there.

Testament1
Unfortunate for you being pulled up on both, in fairness ive seen pics of your car and its not as if it would be mistaken for a garda car. If you were flashing them on and off fair enough you would expect to be pulled up. I reckon it would depend on the gard on the day to actually do you for the blue lights.

colm_mcm

I can see why they do this.

Seanieke

What is the deal with trucks actually, they're like Christmas trees drivin around...

colm_mcm

Truckers and skangers - the downside of the drop in cost of LEDs