This isn't a thread on whether we like DRLs, hate DRLs or generally confuse them with fog lights BUT is more around the legalities of them being fitted to new cars.

The reason being is that I saw 2 brand new models on the roads yesterday, namely a Skoda Rapid and a Vauxhall Adam. Both were latest '13' registrations.

The Vauxhall Adam was clearly running DRLs but the Rapid wasn't - I thought that all new types of cars from February 2011 had to have the functionality to show DRLs.

Does the Rapid not fall into the category? Or are manufacturers still giving drivers the option of switching them off. The Rapid was a hire car so unlikely that the driver had chosen to swtich them off.

Manufacturers had to fit them to Type Approved vehicles after February 2011, drivers do not need to have them enabled.

ie they can Disable them.

Cant see why a Hire Car driver would be any less likely to Switch them off than anyone else.

You get flashed a few times and think stuff this for a game of soldiers.

george

The Rapid does have DRLS, but they're not LED like a lot of new cars. They look more like sidelights.

http://www.skoda.co.uk/models/HotspotDetail?HotspotName=Rapid%20-%20Daytime%20running%20lights&WebID=b77b14e6-0640-432f-be65-75539afb3c66&Page=technology&view=TechnologyLights

Manufacturers had to fit them to Type Approved vehicles after February 2011, drivers do not need to have them enabled.

ie they can Disable them.

So regardless of the legislation, manufacturers have to fit them to TA cars BUT drivers can switch them off? Seems a bit pointless then - why legislate to have them fitted but then say "you can switch them off if you want?"

The Rapid does have DRLS, but they're not LED like a lot of new cars. They look more like sidelights.

http://www.skoda.co....echnologyLights

The one which was following me on the motorway had none on, LED or otherwise.

Because as useless as the UK Government is,

always just bending over and assuming the position when the EU says,

they know how to stick a finger up to them and slow things down.

The UK has some of the laxest MOT or Safety Tests of any country, and is for ever taking its own line with vehicles and changes imposed by the EU.

http://www.theaa.com...ing-lights.html

george

We even have Government Ministers, MP's, Peers etc that are Car Enthusiasts, hence Tax Exempt pre 1973,

MOT exempt pre 1960

& George Osborne gets his driver to park his Range Rover in Disabled bays.

George, you really take the biscuit.

How on earth have you managed to find an opportunity to have a pop

at Iain Duncan Smith, (and George Osbourne) in a thread about DRLs

(another of your pet hates iirc).

What on earth has that man done to you?

& George Osborne gets his driver to park his Range Rover in Disabled bays.

???? BTW, you said Range Rover and posted a pic of a Discovery.

Being into offroading a bit I'd have thought you knew the difference.

Meanwhile, back on topic...

It sounds like the Rapid has had them turned off.

Which seems a bit odd.

grr666,

Small point. but rather important since you get the wrong end of the stick.

I had a pop at George Osborne,

& posted a Picture of Iain Duncan Smith with his Morgan as an example of these that run this country being Car Enthusiasts.

To me that was part of my answer to post #4

george

As with some Fabia's, on the Rapid the owner has the ability to turn the DRL's on and off using a switch inside the fusebox...

So regardless of the legislation, manufacturers have to fit them to TA cars BUT drivers can switch them off? Seems a bit pointless then - why legislate to have them fitted but then say "you can switch them off if you want?"

That's how it is . and I am still being flashed lol.