Driving/Fog light mountings

Submitted: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 00:00
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G'day all. Something to bring to your attention! I purchased a pair of second hand rectangular PIAA combined fog/driving lights (uses H4 globes, as in high/low beam). Good light, well made, easily mounted and recommended by an experienced retailer. Fitted them to an ARB steel bullbar in the holes provided and guess what? Just before I am about to leave on an interstate holiday, Transport Tasmania pull me over one morning and inform me the fog/driving lights are illegal to use on the low beam (or fog) position! I enquired why and the officer informed me they did not comply with ADR's. Why? As auxillary low beams they were illegal because you are only allowed to have 2 lamps running on low beam. Fine. They are fog lights! Illegal mounting position. Fog lights/lamps must be mounted below the bottom edge level of the headlights and the centres not more than 400mm from the furthest extremity of the vehicle ie, outside edge of the guards and/or flares. In my case it was impossible to comply with. Transport Tasmania sugested I could mount them on the bottom of the bull bar! Not likely. The retailer who recommended the lamps refunded my money and was very good about the situation, but was unaware of these requirements until he checked. These are national ADR's covering ever state and territory! I found out further that auxillary lights used on public roads must not be mounted above bonnet level (what ever that is, trucks have very big bonnets), and must be mounted symetricly. This means you can't have 3 driving lights if one is a different shape/make/brand! Who has any idea of what symetrical is? This brings me to another point. After reading leading national 4X4 magazines many of the vehicles illustrated have illegal lighting systems on them. There is a substantial fine for non compliance and I am sure many of us are unaware of these facts. Please let me know if any of this has changed since. Cheers
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