Armchair .... anyone? First off, I was saying earlier .... 'to help' keep it legal. You need a Washer & Self Leveling Kit. Not practical to instal a leveling kit but it is a washer kit. WHY, well your average 'plod' as Aunty Armchair puts it will notice your HIDs, notice your Washer Set, may ask you to 'spray them' but can't test a 'leveling feature'. So will go off happy - unless of course your being an Ass? This is, if you get pulled over at the side of the road? And by the way, the average 'plod' is not trained or qualified to test or prohibit a vehicle at the side of the road, they have to call in a suitably trained college of which most forces only have a few, and then not always on duty?As for Insurance Companies wriggling out of paying out on a claim for having HIDs, you'd need to be a pretty unlucky armchair for that to happen? First off your Headlights would need to have survived a frontal impact - intact (?) and secondly your insurance company would need a reason to have them tested? Sorry, but someone has been sat in their Armchair way too long to come up with that one? What next ... your insurer's doing an itemised check of your mobile phone bill after every accident in the hope they can prove you where on it and thus place the blame for any accident on to you using your phone, so causing said accident meaning they wouldn't need to pay out? Even if your car had been stationary and someone else runs into you??? God help us then!Anyway it's all conjecture and if my old pals 'Mr Plod' had the time and resource to detect even one tenth of the crime being committed on the roads each day, then we would have none of the idiots out there using their mobile phones, not wearing seat belts, using iPads, reading books & maps etc, all whilst driving at twice the speed limit ... would we? Eh!Oh, before I turn in for my Coco ... I regularly drive with the Boys In Blue having to take annual driving course as part of my job and some of their vehicles have been converted to HIDs [I have mentioned this before on here?] ... shall I reprimand them for you? Also my Juke is parked in the secure compound of the local station here quite often when I drop in to see one of our lads who's been a little naughty I won't say what the DCC thinks of my Juke and it's HIDs ... wouldn't want to upset anyone [already done that this evening ... but that's another story ] Well - night, night children and don't let the Armchair frighten you too much?
However if you get pulled over by the Police and they notice the HIDs then you will get done for it as isn't legal to have them without the washer and self-levelers fitted.So pretty much a roll of the dice I'd say ...
