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12-18-2009, 01:57 AM | #1 |
Drives: Yaris 09 T-spirit 1.33 Join Date: Jul 2009
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Xenons Legal or not?
is a hid xenon kit road legal or not?
in malta there isn't a law that state this but some say they are and some say they aren't |
12-18-2009, 02:15 AM | #2 |
Joey
Drives: '14 Scion xD 5-speed Join Date: Oct 2008
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Here in The States they're legal up to 8000K. Also with the size of our headlights you need some kind of deflector to keep the glare out of oncoming traffic. Installing projectors more than takes care of that.
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12-18-2009, 03:19 AM | #3 |
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Look at some of the BMWs. If you see Xenon on a BMW, then it's legal.
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12-18-2009, 03:26 AM | #4 |
Joey
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BMWs have smaller headlights than ours, so it's okay. Add to that their projectors, which make them more than legal. We're not so lucky. Ours have to be bigger to get the most out of halogens
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12-18-2009, 04:51 AM | #5 |
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As Malta is part of EU, I'm afraid simple xenon replacement bulbs to regular halogen lights are illegal. They essentially mess up the light pattern as xenon bulbs cast a brighter light of different shape. I've never looked into it in detail, but as I gather, xenons are only legal on vehicles, which have so-called looking-glass lenses (don't know how they actually call them, projectors?) as standard or which have xenon headlights as an OEM option (thus you could just replace the headlights with OEM xenons and add self-levelling and washing mechanisms). Yaris doesn't have either. So the only legal option is to install additional lights (such as Hella Micro DE Xenon), keeping in mind the reference light numbers.
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