Hello, the Mrs has a mk1 yaris and the h4 bulbs with poor reflector patterns make it little dim for driving even with philips extreme something or rather bulbs. Wanting to get some extra external lights for it. However I'm not sure which to look for if I want extra dipped beam lighting. How can I tell if the external lights are for extra dipped or for fogs/main beam?

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Haven't seen any after market dipped beam lights just fogs and spots try joining the yaris forum m8 and asking them

Bottom line - you may have one and only one pair of dipped headlights illuminated legally. Fitting auxilliary headlights and using them as you plan to is illegal and anti-social.

Edited 23 January, 201214 yr by KenONeill

Basically what Ken says is correct.

A car of that age can only be fitted with one pair of dipped beam lights, plus one pair of "side" lights, a pair of fog lights, and a pair of daylight running lights. It can have more main beam lights, which could include auxillary lights, but they must extinguish automatically when the main beam is turned off.

Some light reading for you:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/contents/made

try taking the lights apart and cleaning them ? or see if you can upgrade them by replacement for newer style ones

Basically what Ken says is correct.

A car of that age can only be fitted with one pair of dipped beam lights, plus one pair of "side" lights, a pair of fog lights, and a pair of daylight running lights. It can have more main beam lights, which could include auxillary lights, but they must extinguish automatically when the main beam is turned off.

Some light reading for you:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/contents/made

Thanks for the info/link, I was trying to find that for ages. Might go down the HID route then if thats the case. There are non OEM projector headlights for the yaris but it looks chav with double angel eyes. :|