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Thread: led aftermarket taillights for a WOF

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    led aftermarket taillights for a WOF

    just got a led taillight and when the lights on it rotates around 12 little leds
    when i brake they all light up.
    what i want to know is will these pass a WOF or will i have to stick the oem bulb in for one.
    the led one is the shizz and its heaps brighter but not sure if it will pass.
    cheers for any help.

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    I've got LED's on my truck,their not standard but it got it's COF no worrries.
    Can only try mate!!

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    Cool

    try ringing your local WOF testing station.... and ask them...
    They have all the written jargon on lights etc...

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    Why wouldn't they be? If they are red and visible, it shouldn't be a problem should it?

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    Should be fine.
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    groovy, saw those on trademe heh

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    Quote Originally Posted by alarumba
    Why wouldn't they be? If they are red and visible, it shouldn't be a problem should it?
    This is the LTSA we're talking about. Logic and practicalness DO NOT enter into it. Soundbeltfarm - you really need to check with your WOF issuer
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Used to work for OnRoad on the car side (duno how to start a bike even!) but the same rule should apply to both bikes and cars in terms of exterior lighting:

    Cornering lamp (all round) must be substantially white or amber at the front; substantially red or amber at the back

    Stop light must be red

    other than that you can do whatever you want to the bulb, be it LED / bulb...etc (i mean, nobody's gonna pull the stuff out and tell you "son, u failed WOF cos I don't like it" )

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    I'd be listening to motu... seeings as he does WoFs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu
    Not leagal at all at all.
    Trust the man, he bloody works there. LTSA can be quite stubbon about some things. Practicality doesnt usually come to mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alastabesta
    (i mean, nobody's gonna pull the stuff out and tell you "son, u failed WOF cos I don't like it" )
    It's happened to me... Mind you it was a few years back and I was a young un... Got my old man to take it back and went straight through...

    Apparently my front end was too stiff..... On a rigid framed bike. I mean it had zero rear suspension...

    First thing the guy said was 'what the f**k do you call this then?' Went down hill rapidly, failed on about 6 things.

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    The wording is...''stay steadily illuminated''...a straight LED bulb will be ok so long as it's bright enough.
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    cheers will call the testing station tomorrow morn.
    they are strict in there i call em constipated because they dont pass anything.
    so if they say they are o.k im humming.

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    Some WoF places are weird tho... we've had barbie for 3 years (since new) and after failing on a tail light lense ($224) the guy who said "yep" reckoned we shoulda had tare weight on it... me:"well, buddy, it didn't come wif one, so I aint writing one on it" him:"ok"

    nobhead... either it does or it doesn't.... he obviously had no idea....



    and the bosses commode goes to the same place everytime and sometimes they pass it with the tinting and other times they don't then they do again!!!... what is with that??? it was tinted the day after he bought it!!!

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