SVA and E marking?

[Steve_D]

I am slowly accepting that the only legal way, as I see it, to put my Dakar on the road is to put it through SVA. I will be arranging to talk with the DVLA just in case they see it differently but I doubt they will.

Anyway, in preparation I have been going through the manual in depth and am now confused over the lighting requirements.

Over the years there have been many threads about E marking requirements on light units but my studies of the manual have not born this out. There is an annex which lists the markings in a column on the right hand side but the actual testing section does not list ‘Missing E marking’ as a failure. It also uses the words “The brightness of lamps bearing an appropriate approval mark as given in Appendix 1 defines the acceptable standard. Lamps not bearing such a mark should emit light of similar brightness”.

Am I missing something or misreading the rules?
Perhaps there is a small print gotya somewhere on the back of page one hundred and something that I have missed.

Generally it does not look as bad as I thought it would be.

Steve

[Tony427]

As regards E marking I think your headlights need to be E marked, all other lights just need to be "bright enough" in the examiners subjective opinion. Make sure that they all fit within the height and width parameters however.

Cheers,

Tony

Edited by Tony427 on Sunday 30th March 23:05