MOT - Lights

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Can someone please confirm or deny this - one of those where I'm sorry I got involved and tried to help.

A friend's car was due it's MOT and she basically left it until the last minute. She had a broken lens on the rear light (fail) so I quickly sourced a replacement so she could get it in for test.

There must have been a few variants of light on the model as although the unit fitted, the light pattern was different. I was in a rush and didn't notice this at the time. I just did a quick check that all the bulbs worked.

It failed on the mismatched pattern from one side to the other - is this correct.

(And of course it's all my fault even though it would have failed anyway as it was)

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Retroman said:

I'm happy to be corrected but i thought that was a reason for failure on the headlights only.

A cracked rear lens isn't a failure unless there are sharp edges or white light shines through. Some tap usually sorts that.

It had a 1.5 inch hole in it - either a stone, reversing incident or some such

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Thanks - getting back for a photo might be tricky but I will see what I can do having opened up the debate.

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It is a Pug 206

from a description the old light pattern was

Rev Ind
Brk/Tail

and the new one was

Brk/Tail Ind
Rev

The spacing from the edge or center of the car may have been slightly different but the brake/tail light was on top on one and on the bottom of the other