TPG
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 posted on 23/6/03 at 07:38 PM |
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Rear light mounting.
Do the rear lights have to be mounted vertical (as the rear fogs do) or can they be following the curve of the rear wing.Without drifting from the
viewing angles?
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MK9R
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| posted on 24/6/03 at 10:18 AM |
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Only the fog (and reverse lights??) need to be vertical.
Cheers Austen
RGB car number 9
www.austengreenway.co.uk
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 24/6/03 at 11:05 AM |
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I checked my sva manual last night.
couldnt see anything about reverse lights.
from memory, the following :
fog light must be 250mm from ground at lowest point minimum, and be in car centre or towards the offside. It must be at 90 degrees to the ground
plane.
Other lights dont have to be vertical, but must meet viewing angle requirements, and as a rule must be no more than 400mm from the side of the car and
at least 350mm above the ground.
all from memory so dont hold me to it!
atb
steve
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TPG
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 posted on 24/6/03 at 07:08 PM |
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Thankyou both.What you are saying makes sense,I rang the Sva tech' help line today.And all they quoted me was the reflectors (and fog)have to be
vertical and it all has to be rear facing.Rear facing rear lights.This Sva stuff is in depth.I have also noticed Dax have similar to what I am
thinking of on a pictue/advert of the 'Rush.Cheers Me Dears.
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eddie
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| posted on 25/6/03 at 11:43 PM |
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as i was aware there isnt any requirement for a reversing light on a car, the mot station wont check it as part of your MOT this i do know
and not all vehicles have em think honda goldwing (admittedly a bike, but it has a reverse gear, run off the starter motor) it has no reverse light,
or think land rover prior to the ones now with the bigger rear fog and indecator lenses fitted
its probably one of those things manufacturers put on in case the law changes, like child seat points in most modren cars, after all its easier and
cheaper to put it them in there to use from the beginning of a production run, than than it is to pay a design team to work out how to add it
later.
but this is all from memory, so dont go quoting me in any government reports 
Please feel free in advance to: correct, update, ridicule or laugh and point at any comments made by myself in this post....
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chrisg
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| posted on 26/6/03 at 06:06 PM |
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You don't need a reverse light or indeed a gear - ask the BEC boys!
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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TPG
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| posted on 26/6/03 at 06:59 PM |
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I'm going to go with mounting the rear lights on the cuvre of the rear wing(as per Dax Rush picture).They will fall with in viewing
angles'If not I'll lower and raise the front of the car on hydrolics!
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