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NCT with hids

  • 12-01-2011 12:38pm
    #1
    Dangerdunf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I have the NCT due in a week. I currently have a set of lo beam HIDs on the car. Should I remove these before the NCT or will it pass with the HIDs left in?


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  • #2
    Tropheus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    I have them in my wife's car (Audi A2 with non-projector lights) and they passed no problem. Non-projector headlights are hit and miss when it comes to xenon kits. Some are ok and some just dazzle on-coming drivers.

    If you have drivers regularly flashing you, then you could be in trouble. Otherwise take a chance. I don't believe they specifically look for HID kits, they just check the headlight alignment.


  • #3
    Dangerdunf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Dangerdunf


    ksimpson wrote: »
    I have them in my wife's car (Audi A2 with non-projector lights) and they passed no problem. Non-projector headlights are hit and miss when it comes to xenon kits. Some are ok and some just dazzle on-coming drivers.

    If you have drivers regularly flashing you, then you could be in trouble. Otherwise take a chance. I don't believe they specifically look for HID kits, they just check the headlight alignment.

    Ya I've got a few flashes from other drivers with them on. It might be safer to take them out for the test. Thanks for the advise. :)


  • #4
    cpoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭cpoh1


    Dangerdunf wrote: »
    Ya I've got a few flashes from other drivers with them on. It might be safer to take them out for the test. Thanks for the advise. :)

    Take them off and leave them off would be my opinion. They will fail the NCT without the proper headlight designed for dispersion of the high intensity beam. What you are getting at the moment with the standard lenses is beam scatter which while failing the NCt is causing a hazard to other road users. There's a very good reason other road users are flashing you. Plus they look tripe when the lens isint designed for the HID.


  • #5
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Dangerdunf wrote: »
    Ya I've got a few flashes from other drivers with them on. It might be safer to take them out for the test. Thanks for the advise. :)

    It would be safer to either get them aligned properly or remove them altogether.

    Improperly aligned lights, especially HIDs, are dangerous and distracting to other road users, and offer no benefit to anyone.


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