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stevo as b4
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PostPosted: 17:55 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: MOT question. Reply with quote
My MOT has expired on the KMX, and after having spent several weekends messing about with the lighting/bulbs, I now have working LED bulbs in my indicators.

But though I've ordered some individual LED's to make a working tell tale bulb replacement, for now I just put in an LED bulb which obviously only flashes when then left side indicators are working. I know I need to build a dual LED set up with them fitted in opposite polarity to each other.

But is it an MOT fail if the tell tale only works when LHS or RHS indicators are working?

Cheers.
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 18:00 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tape over it. But no, so long as you can see them from seat.
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moonzoomer
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PostPosted: 21:25 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
Tape over it. But no, so long as you can see them from seat.
Taping over any and all indication lights on an instrument panel or dashboard is an automatic fail nowadays, if the lamp was originally there it has to work but I suppose it comes down to the tester and where the bike is tested
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe in non-England. Tell-tales are not required at all.
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moonzoomer
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PostPosted: 21:41 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
Maybe in non-England. Tell-tales are not required at all.
I can remember taking the indicators of the bikes and taping up the indicator switch when they failed to work just to get a bike through MOT but the feckers changed the rules on that one as well.
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
We can tape em all up, hell I use this on the road...

https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b545/paddynewman/track/20140505_155012_zpswrhyvqhv.jpg
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moonzoomer
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PostPosted: 21:48 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
We can tape em all up, hell I use this on the road...

https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b545/paddynewman/track/20140505_155012_zpswrhyvqhv.jpg
Kin ell, seriously if I took that machine to the test centre they would impound it and call the cops not that I think there is anything wrong with it mind. Laughing
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 21:55 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing Starter is a horn button on the left... and horn is starter button on the right.

Light switch is the ignition.

Gears are upside down.

Surprised I've not been pulled yet Shocked

But yeah, MOT, flexi as hell.
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
moonzoomer wrote:
Taping over any and all indication lights on an instrument panel or dashboard is an automatic fail nowadays

Is that a fact?

General test procedures.

Motorcycle test procedure.

Surprise me.


1.5 Direction Indicators

The actual manual, with my highlighting, wrote:
2. Operating the indicators see that the operation of each front indicator is readily visible from the riding position or that the ‘tell tale’ is operating correctly

Note: If the indicators can be seen from the riding position there is no need for a ‘tell tale’ to operate.


Enfield passed with LEDs and the idiot light bulb removed. Fugitive from the law.
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 22:00 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
He is non-anglais. However, do scottish people get the same MOT, "UK" wide stylee?
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moonzoomer
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PostPosted: 22:04 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
moonzoomer wrote:
Taping over any and all indication lights on an instrument panel or dashboard is an automatic fail nowadays

Is that a fact?

General test procedures.

Motorcycle test procedure.

Surprise me.


1.5 Direction Indicators

The actual manual, with my highlighting, wrote:
2. Operating the indicators see that the operation of each front indicator is readily visible from the riding position or that the ‘tell tale’ is operating correctly

Note: If the indicators can be seen from the riding position there is no need for a ‘tell tale’ to operate.


Enfield passed with LEDs and the idiot light bulb removed. Fugitive from the law.
I have my tests done in N.I where things work a little differently, we have to take the bikes to a government test centre where the testers are all civil servants who are paid to fail the bikes/cars not to pass them and these buggers stick to the rules like glue or make them up as they go along. I do not have the luxury of taking my bikes/cars to my mates garage where anything will pass, that is just the way things are here.
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 22:53 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
He is non-anglais.

So is I, but I do like to post for the edification of our majority English lords and masters. The needs of the many.


Paddy. wrote:
However, do scottish people get the same MOT, "UK" wide stylee?

For now. We'll doubtless turn it into some massive bureaucratic TUV-Euro nightmare when given our Freeeeedom.
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moonzoomer
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PostPosted: 23:04 - 16 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Paddy. wrote:
He is non-anglais.

So is I, but I do like to post for the edification of our majority English lords and masters. The needs of the many.


Paddy. wrote:
However, do scottish people get the same MOT, "UK" wide stylee?

For now. We'll doubtless turn it into some massive bureaucratic TUV-Euro nightmare when given our Freeeeedom.
Does that mean you want to shag sheep on a legal basis, just askin like?
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evoboy
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you can see the front indicators flashing from the seat, then it shouldnt be a problem.
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