The HID thing stems from the Type Approval requirements, which are for headlight wash and auto levelling to be fitted with HID bulbs. In theory UK legislation requires aftermarket setups to have the same functionality, but it was watered down for the MOT as there's a couple of cars that are Type Approved without auto levelling. Apparently it was too difficult for a tester to determine that the HIDs were a retrofit - personally i can tell in about 10 seconds either by looking at the headlight body itself or looking at the dodgy wiring through the back of the bulb cap....
Stupid thing now is that if you have factory HIDs the car will fail if the headlight wash that was factory fitted doesn't work, but if you've got chav-tastic blue HIDs retrofitted without headlight wash, they'll pass!
The Irish have it right in this case, in my opinion.
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