#1: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:39 am ---- Car would of passed MOT today but I had bought masked lights from one infoer on here and then today found they were continental and werent sealed properly so when I washe it yesterday and they all steamed up!
Looking or some masked black masked valeos now..
Gotto Return to frosted to pass the MOT!
#2: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: skard, Location: UK - NorthPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:41 am ---- these (in your headlight cap) will remove the condensation until you can seal them properly
#3: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Andrew, Location: Black Country Ay IPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:42 am ---- Masked look good but I wouldn't go out of my way to do it myself, too much effort.
Morettes or Crystals ftw
#4: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:57 am ---- Well I'm goin to take them out and hopefully send them back! No same Im no going to do it myself I'm just after some genuine valeos now when the come up although I was looking at devil eyes unsure seen a set on the bay. Masked suit my car (below)
#5: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: DJ-, Location: UKPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:08 am ---- who did you buy them from?
Pm JayMartell on here and ask him if he wants to sell his genuine ones. I think he was splitting his car.
#6: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:10 am ---- Jimjam19927..
Oh really okay mate thanks for that! I wa thinking masked crystals or devils?
#7: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: iainlovatt, Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:40 am ---- my car failed on the same thing so what i did was took the light out took all the bulb out and poured thew water down the sink, there was quite a lot of water btw, then put them over the ARGA over night to get rid of condensation then put it back in took in to the MOT station and it passed!!!
#8: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:57 am ---- Yeah it wasn't just the condensation to fail! It Was the continental beam which failed they couldn't get the correct beam pattern:(
#9: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Jordan_xsi, Location: IpswichPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:26 am ---- Its not rare that second hand masked crystals will fail an MOT, mine failed as they couldnt be leveled as a couple of the clips snapped, just find a small local garage and slip the guy an extra £10.
#10: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Rob2859, Location: HalifaxPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:34 am ---- Personally I prefer fly-eyes And I don't have this problem.
#11: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: jimjam19927, Location: PortsmouthPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:42 am ---- I didnt know they were continental beam pattern :/!!! I never put them through an MOT. With regards to condensation that is an easy fix. Again sorry dude Last edited by jimjam19927 on Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:59 am; edited 1 time in total
#12: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Jordan_xsi, Location: IpswichPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:46 am ----
Rob2859 wrote:
Personally I prefer fly-eyes And I don't have this problem.
But they look cheap close up!
#13: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: JordGJ, Location: Leeds / West MidlandsPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:56 am ---- My masked crystals have never failed an MOT just got to make sure they've been done properly!
#14: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Brian, Location: VVT Land, FifePosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:59 am ---- How can you send something back for that, they're diy headlights, what were you expecting?
#15: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:23 am ---- Yeah but it not failed because it's masked the garage who I took it to, family friend, said how nice the car was looking! Ita because of the continental beam and they can't get the correct beam pattern:(
Proper gutted in honesty!
#16: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Mikey2uk, Location: StevenagePosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:58 am ---- That's the chance you take when buying second hand, I know this may sound like a stupid idea but how about you put your frosted ones back on for the MOT so it passes and then change them back over.
As for them being the wrong beam throw, how long you had them on the car? Have you ever been flashed due to the fact you was blinding other road users?
#17: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:02 am ---- Yeah I guess! I'm after a set of genuine ones as they suit the car..well I think anyway!
Yeah it it's just a hassle and yeah but but not often only when on dual carriageways:/
#18: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: sillyhilly, Location: The Mean Streets of CoventryPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:11 am ----
Mikey2uk wrote:
Have you ever been flashed due to the fact you was blinding other road users?
danlouiee wrote:
not often only when on dual carriageways
And you thought this was acceptable?! You thought obscuring people's vision and compromising safety to the extent that they need to flash you was ok?
Idiot.
#19: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:21 am ----
sillyhilly wrote:
Mikey2uk wrote:
Have you ever been flashed due to the fact you was blinding other road users?
danlouiee wrote:
not often only when on dual carriageways
And you thought this was acceptable?! You thought obscuring people's vision and compromising safety to the extent that they need to flash you was ok?
Idiot.
And I was to know I bought dodgy Taiwanese headlights that blinded other road users because If I knew that I wouldn't of put them through the MOT!
How was I to know they were flashing me when there are other cars on the road!
Idiot.
#20: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:17 am ----
Brian wrote:
How can you send something back for that, they're diy headlights, what were you expecting?
Exactly what I was thinking.. no one sells DIY things with an MOT 'gaurentee'
Car modifications pretty much go against the law / mot and you understand this risk by fitting masked lights you cannot blame the person who did it at all.
Sorry bud
#21: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:21 am ---- I'm not blaming the fact they're masked the output is fine, it's just continental not British!! Haha
#22: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:22 am ---- Oh I was wondering how that could mess it up, so what they were bought from outside the UK?
#23: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:49 am ---- I bought them from a member on here who bought them and masked them himself, however they were bought from Taiwan as Valeo replicas and so split easy masked easy and just failed because the beam pattern is continental:/
#24: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: sillyhilly, Location: The Mean Streets of CoventryPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:50 pm ---- I thought you said how were you to know they were from Taiwan.
Full of it.
#25: Re: MOT Failure on one thing that I bought from info! Author: danlouiee, Location: Plymouth, DevonPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:55 pm ---- used the search button and went through the sellers posts where he asked what DEPO was and a response was they were from Taiwan. Found that out today after i went for MOT.
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And I don't have this problem.
Again sorry dude
I was wondering how that could mess it up, so what they were bought from outside the UK?
