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I've been searching the archives, but I can't find a religious argument thread.

Any clues? 😉

Bernie, I think it depends.
It is legal to replace bulbs with leds if they pass the MOT beam pattern test.

Extract from Classic Car leds

"The MOT rules have been clarified from 06.02.23 to allow the use of LED conversions that pass the beam pattern tests for headlights for Class 3, 4, 5 and 7 vehicles (car, private bus and light commercial vehicle) first used before 1 April 1...

EVs are discussed here.

The budget may contain policies to commence road pricing for EVs.

They could potentially be charged for twice, if the EV is driven in Europe, since the mileage would be charged for both in the uk and on any motorway toll roads there.

Everything political has the potential to affect us.

It's just a thread. If uninterested, it does not have to be f...

@ Bernie, there does seem to be a strong smell of cured meat around here at the moment ;)

There was a thread on Facebook today about converting sealed beams to LEDs.
A number of people contributed, some suggesting just getting Quartz units and swapping the bulbs, others giving names of suppliers of bulbs.
I Checked online and it appears that it is illegal to retro fit LEDs into vehicles for which they were not designed. Plus they will not pass MOT.
I did once try them in ...

This section of the BBS is called Midget and Sprite General and I would hope it would contain non technical subjects about our cars like meetings, information about upcoming shows, sourcing parts, cars for sale etc. But it’s seems to have been hijacked by people with very strong opinions on non Spridget subjects.
I remember quite a few years ago ( Guy and Bill will remember) two people gett...

Good to hear that you got it sorted, Richard.

Well the weather had a dryer window and I stripped off the headlight and got it in the dry.

Took off the new ballast and found that one of the flat pins was bent and had not entered the coupling ! It had been very difficult trying to get the plug coupling to enter as the new external gasket is really tight in the tube- I even added silicon grease but it took a lot of pressure to compress ...

Yes Trev. That's what I meant by the stirrup shaped at the bottom. I think the old ones pumped on the up stroke and down so the stirrup gave you something to pull against. There's a sort of oversized one in the local museum which was fire fighting equipment.
My S in L has a modern "track pump" version that just has 2 fold down ears that you put both feet on to pump.
All that, I think the nam...

Trev
As Guy said. You really can get a lot of air in a tyre quite quickly I find. Mine is just a modern plastic and steel one with a pressure gauge on top. I did have a cigarette lighter electric one but it broke and I found it more of a faff.