Headlight not working - Illegal?

[polo54]

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

Thanks

[jazzyjeff]

See here...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

JJ

[pits]

guessing you have a Polo, if so it should take 5 minutes, stop in a petrol station they usually sell bulbs these days, pick one up put it in. It really isnt hard or a weekend job

[BAHN-STORMA]

polo54 said:

Is it illegal

Yes

[Vipers]

polo54 said:

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

Thanks

Side lights spring to mind......

[polo54]

Vipers said:

polo54 said:

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

Thanks

Side lights spring to mind......

That's the one!

So will I need a specific bulb or are there universal ones available from petrol stations?

Thanks

[allaway]

Chances are you'll need to go to a main dealer to get the correct headlamp bulb for your model. Some can be a real pain to change.

[Vipers]

polo54 said:

That's the one!So will I need a specific bulb or are there universal ones available from petrol stations?

Thanks

Either check in your handbook, or take the old one out.

[BertBert]

polo54 said:

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

Thanks

Did you actually do the driving test and pass? Remember that tedious book called the Highway Code? No, I thought not. Perhaps your next two bedtime books should be the HC and a Polo Haynes manual.

Bert

[charlie6387]

"Is it illegal"

no its fine to drive around with no headlights

[polo54]

charlie6387 said:

"Is it illegal"

no its fine to drive around with no headlights

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

?

[Hammerwerfer]

I always thought they fitted headlights to US cars and headlamps to UK and Irish ones. Scheinwerfer to the German ones etc...

Edited by Hammerwerfer on Wednesday 18th February 00:14

[Vipers]

Hammerwerfer said:

I always thought they fitted headlights to US cars and headlamps to UK and Irish ones. Scheinwerfer to the German ones etc...

Edited by Hammerwerfer on Wednesday 18th February 00:14

Re the first post "must be the bulb during my service days, if we asked an electrician for a bulb, they would respond with :-

"Bulbs grow in your garden, you want a lamp"

Just to get your post entirely true, "They fit headlights to US cars, one stuck on full beam to UK ones......."

[freedman]

allaway said:

Chances are you'll need to go to a main dealer to get the correct headlamp bulb for your model.

Of course you wont, any motor factors including Halfords will have them

[freedman]

polo54 said:

charlie6387 said:

"Is it illegal"

no its fine to drive around with no headlights

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

?

Of course its illegal, and dangerous

[DonnyMac]

freedman said:

polo54 said:

charlie6387 said:

"Is it illegal"

no its fine to drive around with no headlights

My driver's side headlight isn't working - must be the bulb. Only noticed it last night but I won't have a chance to get a new bulb in until this weekend. Is it illegal to drive with only one functioning headlight? If it makes any difference, the other two lights at the front still work (can't remember the name for them!).

?

Of course its illegal, and dangerous

Is it? I was always under the impression that you only required sidelights in built up lit 30mph zones - I believe this is dangerous, but not illegal to use sidelights only.
Probably wrong though.

[hugoagogo]

allaway said:

Chances are you'll need to go to a main dealer to get the correct headlamp bulb for your model. Some can be a real pain to change.

????

it will be a standard h4 or h7, available in any petrol station or halfords, or even DIY shop

[littleredrooster]

DonnyMac said:

Is it? I was always under the impression that you only required sidelights in built up lit 30mph zones - I believe this is dangerous, but not illegal to use sidelights only.
Probably wrong though.

Yup - wrong. Sidelights are only parking lights and cannot be used when the vehicle is moving; dipped headlamps must be used during the defined hours of darkness.

[spikeyhead]

hugoagogo said:

allaway said:

Chances are you'll need to go to a main dealer to get the correct headlamp bulb for your model. Some can be a real pain to change.

????

it will be a standard h4 or h7, available in any petrol station or halfords, or even DIY shop

Whilst I'm loath to recommend Halfords, they'll also fit the bulb for you.

[Vaux]

littleredrooster said:

DonnyMac said:

Is it? I was always under the impression that you only required sidelights in built up lit 30mph zones - I believe this is dangerous, but not illegal to use sidelights only.
Probably wrong though.

Yup - wrong. Sidelights are only parking lights and cannot be used when the vehicle is moving; dipped headlamps must be used during the defined hours of darkness.

Highway Code rule 113 needs re-writing then.