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MG MGF Technical - headlight protector question

Hi all,

I've a simple question according to the in UK only availiable headlight protectors or to the 'continental conversion' headlight things.
Both are IMO made of the same material.

So please can someone have a look at one this part and state how they are 'marked' ?
I mean any text or figures or partnumber, or brand or what.
A photo of one wgere such marks could be identified would be nice.

This all because I would like to know a bit more about the material spec.

Thanks in advance on your kind help

Dieter
Dieter

Has this something to to with your Roll-windstop TUV ? ;o))
Fabrice

Fabrice,
aaaahhhhmmmm... may be.... you know I can't lie against friends :)

That one is OK and gone for us. Ralf and I got it completely individual TUEV approved yesterday :)

I recently try to 'work out' some more terms on 'our nicely ECE-permission' crap.
Unbeleavable that all IMO. If you grab a little in that you find a lot of stinking sh**. (Sorry not all, but it really upsets me)

So what is marked on the headlight 'Perspex' please?

Dieter
Dieter

Dont have the units here, but seem to remember there was just a MG logo.

ted
Ted Newman

Dieter,

I have recently bought/ fitted a pair, I'll check and let you know later.

regards V361 UAY
kevin lent

Wish I had - I now have a chipped and cracked lens.

:o(

They're probably more expensive than a lens though - right? Make me feel better....
Julian

Dieter,

I took off my headlight protectors for clean, and shot the pictures posted here:
http://NetCity3.web.hinet.net/UserData/donliang/MG_badged_headlight_protectors.htm

It seems that the headlight protector is also illegal in continental... Another funny thing around the gray line.

Don,
http://netcity.hinet.net/donliang
Don Liang

Dieter,

I have a pair of the "beam deflector" headlight covers for RHD.

They look identical to Don's photographs, except for the blackout markings on the inside to block the light.

The part number on the units
XBV100580 on the rim, and 10/98 close by.


Francis.
Francis

Hi,
thanks all for this. My guesses went in the same direction.
Marked with nothing else then the set-part number and a nice MG Logo.

So, why this stupid question. Don is right. This parts would be 'illegal' if a continental registered MGF would add them to the car. (so not illegal at foreign registered cars while driving in EC-countries wich have overtaken this rules)

Hmm, illegal would be to hard said but we here would get problems i.e. in an accident case with our insurance company. The whole car is then written as non-permitted to the regulations and in worst case we have to pay for the accident each and everything ourself.

Reason for 'illegal':
This is a transparent part and so it is 'like glass' as a transparent windstop for example.
There are differences on this if the part sits inside or outside of the car and additional if its fitted to the front area (Frontscreen i.e., Indicator Lens etc)

Now as I understood this crap curios EC rules the insurance experts may think it is glass and can hurt people when it splitters or shatters on an impact.
So this transparent parts need an ECE conformal mark, reffering to a test report of a material test institute. (MPA in Dortmund i.e. for Germany). The parts manufacture needs to pay the test and additional the approval certificate and approval number which is given by the KBA at Flensburg (no LOL, there are in each EC country with the same rules such permission office).

You all can see such a mark i.e. on the softtop rearscreen
WOPAVIN 9101 8704 [the type approved rear screen material]
~~~ D 2173 [approval number from the type approval office]

BTW, that Wapovin should be a PVC product from a company in Luxemburg or Belgium.

All together, I've recently no 'true' idea on why MG did not try to get this permissing for the head light addons.

Some parts need a special also expensive EC-conformal test. Can be seen at several other transparent car parts as an 'E' and a figure as country code where the test was carried out. Letter and Figur inside of a circle, followed by a test number.
But that is not all .... What I recently found is that such parts manufacturing is been audited in sequences of once a year or less to check wether the production is still able to manufacture the at first tested quality...
:-(
... and who pays ... ?

Yeah, and now Don Liangs windstop. Made in a non-EC country... made of Polycarbonate, well known as Markrolon or Perspex or Lexan and whatelse trademark you like.

Don't ask me how we got the individual TUEV approval for our transparent windstops ... but we got it !!
;-)
I required more time on that as on the whole installation ... *g*

But it was funny as everything around our 'half-european' MGF.

Hope this kind of fun doesn't bore you. But I hope it helps to get more sensible on what happens with Europe and relations to other countries if such restrictions take place more and more.
>:-(

Dieter
- now understanding, why the united kingdom blocks such crap -
Dieter

>>>>>Dieter
- now understanding, why the united kingdom blocks such crap -

So there is hope then.....just keep spreading the word :-)
David Smith

This thread was discussed between 05/04/2000 and 09/04/2000

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