Lights at back number plate?

thestar

Failed the nct on this. Is it easy source these bulbs and are tgey easy to install? Thanks

jhud

Normally these are easy to replace please fill us in in what car make and model year so we can maybe help

mickdw

Generally yes and yes.
What car is it?

Atlantic Dawn

Yes easy to source, it's common for it to be a w5w bulb, usually just screws to open to change them.

If you put the make and model of the car in to www.powerbulbs.com it should tell you the type and then you can pick this up at your nearest motor factors.

thestar

Its a 00 corolla hatch, thanks for the responses

biko

Local petrol stations, motor factors, and Halfords have them.
Easy to change yourself.

Just a visual NCT retest for these, so free.

Mervyn Skidmore

This is a fail now? Used to just be advisory.

Noveight

thestar wrote: »

Its a 00 corolla hatch, thanks for the responses

In my '07 Corolla hatch you pop off a little plastic panel on the inside of the boot door. It's a w5w, 2 minute job, small hands help

xabi

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

This is a fail now? Used to just be advisory.

I failed on the plastic light cover over 10 years ago, the bulbs were working but one of the covers was missing.

Wetbench4

Halfords might even do it for you, only takes a few minutes on most cars..

Mervyn Skidmore

xabi wrote: »

I failed on the plastic light cover over 10 years ago, the bulbs were working but one of the covers was missing.

I've passed several ncts with one of those lights gone. Water got into the fixture and it's all corroded.

bazz26

They are simple to replace on a corolla. You normally can remove the light with a philips head screwdriver and then take out the capsule bulb from the bracket. Bring it into a motor factors and they will give you an identical new one.

biko

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

This is a fail now? Used to just be advisory.

Yeah, still is according to the tester's manual

Item 61, Registration Plate Lamps, is now a Pass Advisory item.
Failure of this test will not result in overall failure of the vehicle.

https://www.ncts.ie/media/1004/nct-manual-july-2014.pdf

Mervyn Skidmore

biko wrote: »

Yeah, still is according to the tester's manual

https://www.ncts.ie/media/1004/nct-manual-july-2014.pdf

so how did op fail?

biko

You should ask OP

Ubbquittious

I got an advisory for one of those last year, but only 1 out of 2 lights were gone. If they're both gone is it a fail?

mikeecho

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I got an advisory for one of those last year, but only 1 out of 2 lights were gone. If they're both gone is it a fail?

Not a fail, just an advisory

biko

I see OP in another thread failed on rust so assume that was the real reason for the fail.

vicwatson

thestar wrote: »

Failed the nct on this. Is it easy source these bulbs and are tgey easy to install? Thanks

Is this new? As last year I got an advisory and was specifically told it's not a fail simply an advisory

CiniO

What's the point in this being only advisory on NCT instead of the fail?
Surely having rear number plate light is a legal requirement, so why car which has them non-operational should pass?

Or am I mistaken, and having them operational is not legal requirement?

mikeecho

CiniO wrote: »

What's the point in this being only advisory on NCT instead of the fail?
Surely having rear number plate light is a legal requirement, so why car which has them non-operational should pass?

Or am I mistaken, and having them operational is not legal requirement?

While it is a legal requirement, it's not an nct fail.. go figure

biko

Possibly because Applus, that does the NCT for the RSA, only priority is safety. So while lights for reg plate are legally important they won't get anyone injured or killed.

thestar

I have a visual retest for rust on bonnet which will have to be replaced, the number plates were not the standard ones and both of the bulbs on back numberplates are gone. Thanks for the responses

GM228

CiniO wrote: »

What's the point in this being only advisory on NCT instead of the fail?
Surely having rear number plate light is a legal requirement, so why car which has them non-operational should pass?

Or am I mistaken, and having them operational is not legal requirement?

Correct, having working number plate lights is a legal requirement as per the Road Traffic (Lighting of Vehicles) Regulations 1963 and failure to do so is a FCPN of €60.

biko wrote: »

Possibly because Applus, that does the NCT for the RSA, only priority is safety. So while lights for reg plate are legally important they won't get anyone injured or killed.

Applus have no say in the matter, they simply follow the rules which are set for them by legislation and can't deviate from that.

It is legislation which specifically states that a car can't be failed for defective number plate light as per the Road Traffic (National Car Test) Regulations 2014.

J.pilkington

Please don't replace with an led unit, has to be one of the tackiest mods out there(as bad as Halfords led dlr lights in the front).

Aftermarket number plate leds are always very obviously not oem as it's usually just an over bright light that lights up too large an area, neither of which an oem unit will do