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Gadget wrote:

Soeley wrote: I have been looking for an LED replacement W21W reversing light bulb, apparently there is no limit to brightness.

You've probably found these already, but if not, 750lumen LED reversing light:

www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/7440-twenty20-...nbus-wedge-bulb.html

Seen similar, only looked on eBay and Amazon up to now to get an idea, I was going to look to see the orientation of the bulb, to see which type would be best.

Last time I checked it was illegal to use an led bulb in a lamp designed for an incandescent one. You're supposed to use a supplemental light designed from the start to use led.

Lambert wrote: Last time I checked it was illegal to use an led bulb in a lamp designed for an incandescent one. You're supposed to use a supplemental light designed from the start to use led.

I knew that was the case for head lights, but thought indicator and reversing was different?

The law may have changed as it's about a year since I was looking?

These are the current lighting regs. Knock yourself out!

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

Yes, that is the bit I read:

SCHEDULE 14

requirements relating to optional reversing lamps

1. Number: Not more than two
2. Position: No requirement
3. Angles of visibility: No requirement
4. Alignment: To the rear
5. Markings–
(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1986 and a trailer manufactured on or after 1st October 1985: An approval mark
(b) A motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 and a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1985: No requirement

6. Size of illuminated area: No requirement
7. Colour: White
8. Wattage–
(a) A reversing lamp bearing an approval mark: No requirement
(b) A reversing lamp not bearing an approval mark: The total wattage of any one reversing lamp shall not exceed 24 watts

9. Intensity: No requirement
10. Electrical connections: No requirement
11. Tell-tale–
(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 1st July 1954, provided that the electrical connections are such that the reversing lamp or lamps cannot be illuminated other than automatically by the selection of the reverse gear of the vehicle: No requirement
(b) Any other motor vehicle first used on or after 1st July 1954: A circuit-closed tell-tale shall be fitted
(c) A motor vehicle first used before 1st July 1954: No requirement
(d) Any vehicle which is not a motor vehicle: No requirement.

12. Definitions–
In this Schedule “approval mark” means either–
(a)
a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 21 of Schedule 4 to those Regulations; or

(b)
a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 23 or 23A of Schedule 2 to those Regulations.



If I am reading that correctly, then if the reversing lamp has an approval mark on it, there is no set wattage?