21-06-2022, 11:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-06-2022, 06:37 PM by Hedd_Jones.)
If you plan on taking the car out between sunset and sunrise, then yes it needs reflectors - 2 of them.
If your not, then it doesn't necessarily need them, provided you also don't have front and rear position lamps.
A lamp is not a 'lamp' in law, if it has no wiring, so they don't 'have' to work.
You just have to read and understand the exemptions - Section 4.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989...tents/made
The schedules tell you where they should be fitted.
There is some discussion about lamps that are in themselves reflective also acting as reflectors. My understanding is that if the vehicle that has been fitted with them needed to be 'type approved' and has been type approved with such lamps then this is all well and good, but if not, seperate reflectors are the order of the day.
That being said, I can assure you that Plod, generally has no idea as to what is legal and what isn't, which is rather worrying.
If your not, then it doesn't necessarily need them, provided you also don't have front and rear position lamps.
A lamp is not a 'lamp' in law, if it has no wiring, so they don't 'have' to work.
You just have to read and understand the exemptions - Section 4.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989...tents/made
The schedules tell you where they should be fitted.
There is some discussion about lamps that are in themselves reflective also acting as reflectors. My understanding is that if the vehicle that has been fitted with them needed to be 'type approved' and has been type approved with such lamps then this is all well and good, but if not, seperate reflectors are the order of the day.
That being said, I can assure you that Plod, generally has no idea as to what is legal and what isn't, which is rather worrying.