Bonnet mascots - legal or not?

Bonnet mascots - legal or not?

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joebongo

Original Poster:

1,516 posts

174 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Got a 2001 vintage jag sov with a leaping cat on the bonnet - a mate's told me this is illegal - is this true?

At work now so sorry if I can't reply to replies til later tonight.

SSBB

695 posts

155 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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I don't know, but common sense says if fitted by manufacturer from new then legal, otherwise illegal these days as they wouldn't pass crash regs?

ajb85

1,120 posts

141 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Some snide garages who want to impress VOSA would fail the mot on it. Others wouldn't bat an eyelid!

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Illegal or not, the thought of the damage one of these would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...


C.A.R.

3,967 posts

187 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Ari said:
Illegal or not, the thought of the damage it would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...
Exactly this. It would be cat-astrophic.

CampDavid

9,145 posts

197 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Ari said:
Illegal or not, the thought of the damage one of these would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...

Indeed.

Jaguar were prevented from fitting them due to crash test laws, however existing cars could keep them. Unsure how you'd fare fitting it yourself or if your insurance would be happy if you maimed someone with it.

I'd remove it because

A. It looks st

B. It's dangerous

SLCZ3

1,204 posts

204 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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This iirc is the reason,
"Jaguar stopped putting the leaping cat on their cars in 1978 due to the introduction of legislation which demanded that all mascots be spring-loaded to prevent injury. Spring-loading the cat proved too problematic and so was dropped".

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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OP, your friend must be thinking of the offence of using a vehicle with a dangerous mascot. In which case, yes, I would agree. Fixed Jaguar mascots are the very example I was given when I was told about that offence.

king arthur

6,538 posts

260 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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I think they look ridiculous on the Jags that aren't built with them anyway.

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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king arthur said:
I think they look ridiculous on the Jags that aren't built with them anyway.
Agreed, worse still are the horse mascots and so on you see Lady Likessmellypitsandstableboys you see on some RRS's and the like hurl

Bayerischer

194 posts

146 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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I think this has the makings of an excellent thread

Regiment

2,799 posts

158 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Ari said:
Illegal or not, the thought of the damage one of these would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...

The car manufacturer or the driver can't be blamed for the clumsiness of pedestrians. If it impales them, it impales them.

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Regiment said:
The car manufacturer or the driver can't be blamed for the clumsiness of pedestrians. If it impales them, it impales them.
What a stupid stupid comment.

GroundEffect

13,819 posts

155 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Regiment said:
Ari said:
Illegal or not, the thought of the damage one of these would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...

The car manufacturer or the driver can't be blamed for the clumsiness of pedestrians. If it impales them, it impales them.
wot.

ED209

5,740 posts

243 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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There is a specific offence of having a dangeours mascot, whether a mascot is dangerous will ultimately be for the court to decide.

Japveesix

4,476 posts

167 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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C.A.R. said:
Ari said:
Illegal or not, the thought of the damage it would do, even at low speed, to someone that accidentally walked in front of the car doesn't bear thinking about...
Exactly this. It would be cat-astrophic.
They'd definitely be feline a lot of pain, that's for sure.

mat205125

17,790 posts

212 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Ari said:
Regiment said:
The car manufacturer or the driver can't be blamed for the clumsiness of pedestrians. If it impales them, it impales them.
What a stupid stupid comment.
Not to mention nieve, given that we live in the era of the "no win, no fee, ambulance chaser"

GoneAnon

1,703 posts

151 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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mat205125 said:
Not to mention nieve, given that we live in the era of the "no win, no fee, ambulance chaser"
Think Evian, but backwards...

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

189 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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king arthur said:
I think they look ridiculous on the Jags that aren't built with them anyway.
rolleyes

BigBen

11,610 posts

229 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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king arthur said:
I think they look ridiculous on the Jags that aren't built with them anyway.
A lot of Jags in the USA still have 'leapers' on the bonnet so I think that they have all been built with them, just not for some markets.