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P38arover,Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
You're probably correct.
But we're all modifying our vehicles to improve them for what we use them for or simply to improve the quality / longevity.
The fact that manufacturers are using LED's would indicate they’re generally "suitable" for the purpose. Whether manufactures ideally design their product to get the best result from LED's is another question.
As I said if you correctly select the LED’s you use, I don’t see why not use them.
The legal situation is that lights are required to be ADR compliant (assuming we are talking about vehicles made since the ADRs existed). When a vehicle is introduced to the market, lights must be shown to be compliant. Changing from an incandescent bulb to an LED means that even if the light does still meet the requirements, it is no longer the same as the one that did, and at the very least would need engineering approval. Complete LED lights marked ADR compliant and sold as a unit have gone through the approval process and could be used as a replacement light - not the same situation.
As far as HID lights go there are two problems. The first is that as I understand the situation, HID lights are required to be equipped with washers and wipers and provision for height adjustment from the driver's seat. The second is that the arc in the HID is a different shape to the incandescent filament, owing to inescapable laws of physics. This means that a lens or reflector designed for one cannot give the same beam spread shape for both types of lamp, and again, we get into the same legal situation as with the LEDs, except that in this case the conversion is very obvious to other drivers. See Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply for a full discussion.
John
eBay UK Shop - Bolt On Bits 01274 869955: Classic Mini, Rear Lamps, Series, 101, Lightweight etc
Have a squizz at these they do clever connectors as well for nad side/rear/indicator lights and cheap too for the whole set
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-RDX-Plinth-...3A4%7C294%3A30
This is the product that you require i would ring as they are advertised in land rover owner international at 55 quid a set
I know you're only talking about the globes themselves, and these guys only sell whole lamps, but if you download the PDF catalogue from this Aussie site.......LEDAutolamps.........they tell you which of their lamps are ADR approved.
Murray