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[Chris [Stockport]]

Found this under Google UKEV:



Summary of Lighting Rules

In the regulations, lights, reflectors and reflective material are all classed as lights on cars (this means that the public cannot have blue reflective graphics for example).

Any colour light is OK to be on a vehicle if it is covered up or not connected up (excluding blue).

Only emergency vehicles can be fitted with a blue flashing light, or anything that looks like a blue flashing light, whether working or not.

Some of the rules do not apply if the vehicle has just been imported or is about to be exported, or if it is a visiting foreign vehicle.

[jefrs]

Chris, that summary appears to apply to flashing lights and beacons - according to the Stat.Inst (the actual law). The only colour totally forbidden showing to the front is red. The only flashing colours permitted to the front are yellow or white (exceptions various emergency and other vehicles). I did not know white indicators are permitted neither.

The colour in the same shell must be the same colour as the main lamp; a headlamp may be white or yellow.

I have read the entire Stat.Inst.1989 No.1796 through, it is not bedtime reading but I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. (NB)



This may mean you cannot put a LED pilot (which are technically "white") in the headlamp shell but can in the two eyes.