Indicators - a legal requirement?

[ready4whatever]

Indicators? I thought they were called confirmators, mostly seen in use as they are (sometimes) flicked on when the numptie is halfway round the corner anyway.

yeah mate, today an old heapa shit commodore with the gayest 18 inch chromes iv ever seen came flying around the roundabout, no indication whatsoever, and because he was going so fast it looked like he was going straight, i went to go but suddenly he came around. him and his ugly bitch of a mrs gave me the finger and yelled fuck you for not giving away, i just pulled it back. fuckin idiot. just thinks because he has the right of way that no1 will hit him no matter how he drives.

[MSTRS:Me]

There are exceptions but in general what the grumpy gentleman said.

I have a bike with no indicators.

The "if it had them once it must now" is, by and large, an urban legend.

WOF issuers in Lower Hutt in the 70s worked on the principle 'if they are fitted, they must work'.
So...if a bulb was out, say, we'd just remove the lot.

[Swoop]

Incidentally Trafficators are still legal, though not person in a hundred nowadays would have a clue what they were.

I remember Morrie Minor's used to have them in the pillar. Entertaining, to be sure!
97 to go.

[Motu]

'if they are fitted, they must work'.
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Never been a rule,and still isn't.Only exception is fog lamps,if they don't go,they must be removed.All other lamps are disabled.

[StoneY]

Never been a rule,and still isn't.Only exception is fog lamps,if they don't go,they must be removed.All other lamps are disabled.

Try get a wof with a bulb out - epic fail!
ALL lights on your vehicle (excluding interior lights in cabs) MUST be functional or its a fail - applies to every vehicle on our roads - and that's the law not some OPINION

The other exception is dash lights, they can be out but tail/fog/head/indicator lamps MUST be functioning

My mate took his indicators off his Triumph Bonneville, passes its WOF with no issue at all- every time, any tester

[Ixion]

Not quite.

here is what the VIRM *actually* says

Note 2 A rear fog lamp that does not comply with condition and performance requirements must be made to comply or be disabled so that it does not emit a light.
...
Note 5 A forward-facing permitted lamp that does not comply with the equipment, condition and performance requirements must be made to comply or be removed from the vehicle.

Note the "forward facing" bit. The "rear fog lamp" clause is repeated for indicators, stop lamps etc.

So, a FORWARD FACING permitted lamp that fails must be removed. A rear facing one may be disabled (if it is not already).

Of course, a mandatory lamp must work

This requirement ONLY extends to lighting. Other permitted fitments need not actually work (eg a speedo on a pre 1950) .

(BTW, you don't know what Mr Motu does for a living, do you )

[1wheel riot]

if it had them new then it has to have them naw if it didnt then it wont need them naw.

[Motu]

Off course all manditory lamps must go - we are talking about non manditory lamps.

[Ixion]

if it had them new then it has to have them naw if it didnt then it wont need them naw.

No it doesn't. Not always, anyway.