LHD Rear Lights

Ardennes1944

i know lhd headlights are a no-no here but would LHD rear lights be ok to use in ireland? would the fog light/reverse light be on the other side? im sure my car has 2 of each anyway so shouldnt matter. any other reasons why it wouldnt work?

Matt Simis

If its got those moronic flashing red indicator signals then that would not be permitted here (or EU in general I suspect).

Anan1

Is it an EU car? If so, i'd be fairly confident only the headlights need changing.

bmstuff

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

i know lhd headlights are a no-no here but would LHD rear lights be ok to use in ireland? would the fog light/reverse light be on the other side? im sure my car has 2 of each anyway so shouldnt matter. any other reasons why it wouldnt work?

As long as your left indicator blinks on the left and the right one blinks on the right you will be ok

According to the NCT manual you only need one reverse light and one foglight anyway, so it does not matter. On some irish cars it is even in the middle.

Just make sure they all work.

As for your headlights, you can either way adjust them for RHD (many cars have this option, should have an adjuster on the top or side), or get a used or new set, or stick some beam deflectors (Halfords).

HTH

Ardennes1944

buying them from germany. do the beam deflectors actually work? ebay.de have a lot of factory xenon headlights for my car half the price of the usual rrp. my current headlights have manual beam adjusters so surely i can just switch their light output on the horizontal-axis?

bmstuff

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

buying them from germany. do the beam deflectors actually work? ebay.de have a lot of factory xenon headlights for my car half the price of the usual rrp. my current headlights have manual beam adjusters so surely i can just switch their light output on the horizontal-axis?

Well if you can adjust them then, no point of buying deflectors.
They do work yeah, but will damage your headlight plastic the day you remove them.

Get your headlights aligned before you go too.

mgbgt1978

The NCT manual does NOT state that the rear foglight must be either on the right hand side or in the middle, it just says that the foglight (where fitted) should work.

This does not mean that is is legal to have only one foglight (on the left hand side), just that the NCT will not fail you for it.

Testament1

bmstuff wrote: »

According to the NCT manual you only need one reverse light and one foglight anyway, so it does not matter.

You dont even need the one foglight for the NCT. They only test foglights if they're fitted.

corktina

beam deflectors are only meant to be a temporary solution should you go abroad and I doubt you'd pass an NCT with them fitted.

I have never personally heard of headlights which are adjutable from lhd to rhd or vice versa.

EPM

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

buying them from germany. do the beam deflectors actually work? ebay.de have a lot of factory xenon headlights for my car half the price of the usual rrp. my current headlights have manual beam adjusters so surely i can just switch their light output on the horizontal-axis?

Many xenons have automatic adjustment that can be programmed in by a dealer.

corktina wrote: »

beam deflectors are only meant to be a temporary solution should you go abroad and I doubt you'd pass an NCT with them fitted.

I have never personally heard of headlights which are adjutable from lhd to rhd or vice versa.

There is a setting in VAGCOM where I can adjust my headlights for driving on the continent. They are as mentioned above. Not all will be like this though.

mgbgt1978

Some of the newer Factory-fitted Hid xenon lights are adjustable from RHD to LHD with the flick of a lever (or sometimes, with the push of a button).

As I don't drive an S-class merc (although they are getting cheaper in the 2nd hand market these days ) I have never had the pleasure of switching from RHD to LHD myself.

edit. beaten to it by EPM. Damn those Mods and their warp-speed keyboards

Ardennes1944

Thanks lads, I'm not traveling to the continent or anything, just looking at a set of headlights/rear lights on eBay.de for my astra. The prices are ridiculously cheap compared to here. The headlights I'm looking at are factory xenons so I'll ask the seller do they have this switch.