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Location: Scottish Borders
Do the regulations specify how close to the side of the car they need to be?
Jim
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Location: East Yorkshire
Car type: Ruby sports trial special .
There are the mot manual to read
And the construction and use manual
The last one is basically what you need
To make it road legal .
Both can be downloaded from the Internet.
My problem I ask questions that other people don't like?
Like have you got that for an investment or for fun?
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Location: Bala North Wales
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
Would mounting the reflectors on thin sheet steel brackets held to the rear spring by the grease nipples work, I wonder.....
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Whatever the legalities, I have long been an advocate of large low mounted reflectors on any car, and especially old cars with modest lighting and likely to be encountered at large speed differences. I have followed my cars and at a distance the fluctuating reflectors certainly draw attention. Unlike Seven drivers, modern motorists are mostly half asleep and often preoccupied with a myriad dashboard and in car diversions and mirrors. Reflectors light up suddenly when the modern sharp topped dip illuminates and the flash tends to alert the driver. Demountable reflectors often solve the appearance problem. But distance tends to be misjudged unless wide spaced.
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Location: Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Given that most modern drivers seem to get their licences with tokens from breakfast cerial packs we use the large 4" reflectors from roadside maintenance signs. Quite cheap (nothing if you are quick) and stand out like proverbials.
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I certainly think a decent pair of reflectors is a potential life saver on modern roads, they will be spotted long before 6V tail lights.
I also think they should be mounted if not according to law, at least in a way that conveys the message that a small car is looming up fast. You do not want to be mistaken for a large car in the distance, a motorbike or a drifting crisp packet.
Rather than magnets, could not some reflectors be mounted on small brackets that secure to the trailing edge of those wings by something like a soft-jawed bulldog clip? And popped on when the occasion merits it.
