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29th January 2014, 07:54 PM
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When I was looking at putting after market Hid's in my car I did a little research and found an article where a man had wanted to do the same thing so he had found an article on a government website about the fitting of after market Hid's
He said he had found the mot failure would be Hid's fitted where you could see the bulb through the headlamp lens as apparently this alters the beam pattern The other thing was if a car is fitted with oem Hid's it must have self levelling and washers and they must work If they are fitted as an after market addition the bulbs must be behind the projector lens and if fitted with the levelling and washers they also must work,if these are not fitted then they will not affect the mot because they are not fitted to test ? A mate of mine has just put them in his A6 with normal light lenses and side by side his is totally different to mine and will be a mot failure Please correct me if iam wrong ? Ps I will see if I can find the article again 
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29th January 2014, 08:02 PM
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The whole area is very debatable and MOT rules are being tightened up all the time.
A good mate of mine that I should see tomorrow is an MOT tester (not his main job, but still officially qualified and does it occasionally) so I'll try to ask him.
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29th January 2014, 08:13 PM
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Ok champion
Also I thought as the A8's are a prestige car and as long as they are not ridiculously bright blue like some you see on the roads are,they might not get questioned on an mot as like I thought all A8's had them fitted as standard I find it hard to believe Audi fit led lights on the A8 then put yellow halogen bulbs in the headlights madness surely on a car like that they should be standard ?
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29th January 2014, 09:58 PM
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Thanks for this. Tried getting my lenses off last weekend but just ended up rounding one of the screws off. They are well seized. So looks like I'll have to drill them out.
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29th January 2014, 10:29 PM
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Quote:
 Get no more nails red double sided padded tape for it (the actual sticky tape isnt red) try feston's with cree leds, very very small but powerful
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30th January 2014, 05:45 AM
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I need to take one of mine off, hopefully not going to be an issue. One of my plate lights does not work unless I give the housing a gentle tap, so I suspect a dodgy connection on a recently replaced bulb.
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30th January 2014, 08:54 AM
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The regulation for HIDs says self-leveling headlights OR suspension (which we have).
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5th April 2014, 08:45 PM
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Quick update.
So originally I fitted this type which is not good at all as they were flickering, quiet often I have to say.  I solved this problem by fitting 1x CREE LED ones http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...:X:RTQ:GB:1123
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5th April 2014, 09:21 PM
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I got about 4 sets of your original LEDS sat in my LED box.
All with the same issue, the resistors got hot, fell off and burnt out. I'm going to talk to my LED guy and see if he has anything that will last longer than original ones. Be interested to know how you get on with the Cree ones.
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