HID upgrade

[Bushbasher]

A thread in another part of the forum re HIDs' and legality of it in a retro fit prompted me to chase up the fitting of HIDs' to the 'lane so I thought I'd share my experience today...........

OK, I am going to upgrade my high beams to HID. So to that end I've spent alot of last night and today reading and wading through heaps of opinions on various forums plus ADR regs and state regs etc to get an answer. So today I've been on the phone to firstly the federal transport dept. and explained exactly what I wanted to do , that is, upgrade ONLY the dedicated high beam driving lights in the front of my 'lane and NOT the low beams which in my case are dedicated low beams as apposed to a H4 hi/lo setup. As far as I could acertain from reading the ADRs', before my head started hurting,lol, all the pertinent regs pertain to new vehicles and more specifically to the low beam, ( called "dipped beam" or "passing beam" in the ADR regs.) with similar regs for retro fitting but again, only mentioning the low beam. When I said I only wanted to upgrade the dedicated driving lights and it was no different than putting HID spotties on the front of the car they had no problem with it but told me that the state RTA had the final say. So I rang the RTA technical section and explained what I wanted to do and was told that as long as it's white light and meets ADR then no problem, go ahead. So there was the legalities out of the way. Then I phoned my insurance company and explained what I wanted to do and who I'd been speaking to and what I'd been told and they (CGU) said no problem go ahead. So I got them to notarise on the policy that I'd modified the high beam driving lights to HID and that it was ok and wouldn't void my insurance, JOB DONE :

So there ya go, it can be done as long as you don't mess with your low beam and only upgrade the high beam because, as stated, it's essentially no different than bolting on HID spotties.


Bushbasher