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redneck:
Restrictions on fitting blue warning beacons, special warning lamps and similar devices
16. No vehicle, other than an emergency vehicle, shall be fitted with-
(a) a blue warning beacon or special warning lamp, or
(b) a device which resembles a blue warning beacon or a special warning lamp, whether the same is in working order or not.
Full lighting regs here
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si1989/Uksi_19891796_en_3.htm#(Tii)i6restrictionfittingbluewarningbeaconspecialwarninglampsimilardevice
Budgie:
--- Quote from: "barnhill4x4" ---As far as I understand you cannot have a blue light on or off mounted on the roof of your car but you can have discreet ones mounted as long as they are not used
--- End quote ---
But if you're stopped and they find them then you get a fine. :wink:
Blue lights of any type, flashing or not, are illegal for road use in the UK unless you have the correct exemptions under the Road Traffic Act.
This is covered in The Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 where it states:
--- Quote ---(2) No vehicle shall be fitted with a lamp which is capable of showing any light to the rear, other than a red light, except-
(k) blue light from a warning beacon or rear special warning lamp fitted to an emergency vehicle, or from any device fitted to a vehicle used for police purposes;
--- End quote ---
and as Redneck has already said:
--- Quote ---Restrictions on fitting blue warning beacons, special warning lamps and similar devices
16. No vehicle, other than an emergency vehicle, shall be fitted with-
(a) a blue warning beacon or special warning lamp, or
(b) a device which resembles a blue warning beacon or a special warning lamp, whether the same is in working order or not.
--- End quote ---
You see plenty of blue LED lights being sold but if you look at the packaging it will say "not for road use" on them.
discograham:
I brought an ex ambulance a few years ago... had to remove the blues completely before leaving the auction..
A few weeks later some guys brought one, and slipped out with it without removing the blues...
And were nicked a few days later, I think in Luton, just for having them on the ambulance although they were not using them.
And a friend of mine has a '73 mk 1 transit fire engine support unit.. only driven to shows, but cant have blues on it...
Boggert:
Yoy can have tham as long as they are not working and hidden... but whats the point then???
All working blue lights on vehicles are not allowed, static or flashing...
Blue lights are for emergency services only, if you need a security/safety light us an orange one.
There is a myth that if you have a blue light shining you wont get flashed by a speed camera....... Not true, The police get flashed on blue light runs all the time.
Guardian.:
theres a muppet drives around here in a ford scorpio done up as a black and white yankee plod mobile he has blue barrel lights on the roof (and sheriff stickers across the bonnet), he has had several different heaps i mean copy police cars for as long as i can remember, (since i was a kid), he cannot get any agg!
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