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JPJ:
My Disco was one of the ones with the only set of indicators in the bumper, the rear quarter lights contained only Brake, Reverse and Fog.
I bought some of the other sort with the indicators in and swapped them over removing the lights from the bumper altogether and then painting out the indicator and tail light lenses.
Someone suggested that it will now not pass the MOT but I can't see why as it still has only one indicator set and one tail light set as before, but in a different place.
Anybody got any actual  evidence of doing this and still passing the MOT?

hobbit:
If you wire the lights up so you have all the neccessary lights, indicators, side and brake lights along with rear fogs, and reversing lights (not needed for mot though) it will be legal, just a case of adjusting the plugs in the light cluster socket to match up to the correct uses

JPJ:

--- Quote from: "hobbit" ---If you wire the lights up so you have all the neccessary lights, indicators, side and brake lights along with rear fogs, and reversing lights (not needed for mot though) it will be legal, just a case of adjusting the plugs in the light cluster socket to match up to the correct uses
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This bit I have already done, quite easy suprisingly. Yeah that's what I thought just so long as it has all of the necessary lights then they can't complain.

Budgie:
I think the reason for LR putting the tail and indicators in the bumper was to do with a change to the regulations regarding side opening rear doors.
 
If you open your rear door then the spare wheel obscures the tail lights and indicators on the drivers side. So, for safety reasons, the law was changed and they put them in the bumper. This was so that, if broken down with the rear door open while on the motorway, other drivers can still see you're a car and don't think you're a bike parked on the near side of the hard shoulder.
If you get a switched on MOT man then he may well fail it on not having the rear lights fitted that are required by law on that age of vehicle.

You could reinstall the bumper lights and have both sets working. This is fine for the MOT and is what LR did in around 1996/97.  :wink:

hobbit:

--- Quote from: "Budgie" ---I think the reason for LR putting the tail and indicators in the bumper was to do with a change to the regulations regarding side opening rear doors.
 
If you open your rear door then the spare wheel obscures the tail lights and indicators on the drivers side. So, for safety reasons, the law was changed and they put them in the bumper. This was so that, if broken down with the rear door open while on the motorway, other drivers can still see you're a car and don't think you're a bike parked on the near side of the hard shoulder.
If you get a switched on MOT man then he may well fail it on not having the rear lights fitted that are required by law on that age of vehicle.

You could reinstall the bumper lights and have both sets working. This is fine for the MOT and is what LR did in around 1996/97.  :wink:
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You should have a red curtesy light on the door that comes on when open, this then give you a red light rearwards when the door is open

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