Blinker Solution with Eurolights...

[Richard Hoffman]

...I don't get it - does this mean that headlamps that are TUV approved
(which I assume is covered under the United Nations' policies) would be
legal in this state?

Just wondering...and hoping

Richard
1990 CQ 198K




>From: Orin Eman <orin at drizzle.com>
>To: JShadzi at aol.com
>CC: Q at intendedacceleration.com, fastaudi90 at yahoo.com, quattro at audifans.com,
>        urq at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: Blinker Solution with Eurolights...
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:48:53 -0800 (PST)
>
>BIG old exception in WA law, which is what 'Q' posted...
>Basically, it would be silly to ticket all the Canadians crossing the
>border for illegal lights!
>
>Orin.
>
>RCW 46.37.320
>Authority of state patrol regarding lighting devices or other safety
>equipment.
>
>(1) The chief of the state patrol is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce
>rules establishing standards and specifications governing the performance
>of
>lighting devices and their installation, adjustment, and aiming, when in
>use on motor vehicles, and other safety equipment, components, or
>assemblies of a
>type for which regulation is required in this chapter or in rules adopted
>by the state patrol. Such rules shall correlate with and, so far as
>practicable,
>conform to federal motor vehicle safety standards adopted pursuant to the
>national traffic and motor vehicle safety act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1381
>et
>seq.) covering the same aspect of performance, or in the absence of such
>federal standards, to the then current standards and specifications of the
>society
>of automotive engineers applicable to such equipment: PROVIDED, That the
>sale, installation, and use of any headlamp meeting the standards of either
>the society of automotive engineers or the United Nations agreement
>concerning motor vehicle equipment and parts done at Geneva on March 20,
>1958, or
>as amended and adopted by the Canadian standards association (CSA standard
>D106.2), as amended, shall be lawful in this state.
>
> >
> > Well, if you want to get technical, Eurolights are not DOT approved
>either.
> > Javad
> >
> > In a message dated 1/11/2002 7:55:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > Q at IntendedAcceleration.com writes:
> >
> > << Info from the State of Washington:
> >
> >  RCW 46.37.200
> >  Stop lamps and electric turn signals.
> >       (1) <. . .snip . . .>
> >
> >       (2) . . . Turn signal lamps shall be visible from a distance of
>not
> >  less than five hundred feet to the front and rear in normal sunlight. .
> >  .
> >   >>
> >
>




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