Avoid Failing An MOT: 8 Tips On How To Inspect Your Car's Lighting And Signalling System

By 2025, the UK’s projected road traffic fatality rate is 26 per million population. To help curb road accident figures, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) requires every vehicle owner to subject their cars that are at least three years old to an MOT test. MOT Welling is designed to check a vehicle's roadworthiness comprehensively. However, not all vehicles pass the test. About 17 to 20% of MOT failures are attributable to light issues.

Your car’s lighting and signalling system is an important safety feature. It increases your car's prominence while on travel and helps you navigate roads when your surroundings are dark. So how do you inspect it so it won’t cause you to fail your MOT test? Here are eight tips.

Understand your car’s lighting and signalling system. Being a responsible and smart driver entails understanding some of your car’s best safety features — your lights. From headlights to taillights, daytime running lights (DRLs) to fog lamps, brake lights to signal indicators, you have to know their functions, their locations, and how/when to use them.

Check if every light in your car is working. Before taking your car to any of the reliable garages in Welling for an MOT, you have to ensure that all car lights are in good working condition. Yes, that includes even your car’s number plate bulbs.

Get help from somebody else. Checking lights in your car’s rear is challenging when done alone. You can make this job easier by inspecting your vehicle with another person, such as a friend, family member, or partner.

Do the checking when it’s dark. Another helpful hack is doing the inspection when it's dark. This way, you can correctly check if your lights are emitting the right colour and if they’re matching. For instance, if your headlight on the left is dimmer than the right one, MOT garages in Welling can fail your car during the test.

Inspect if the bulbs and light housings are not damaged. Bear in mind that if your bulbs are in any way flawed, it can cause you an MOT failure. The same is true if the sockets and housings that protect your bulbs are cracked or damaged.

For turn signals, make sure that they’re not blinking quickly. Your car’s blinkers can be found both in the front and rear parts of your car. Some are integrated into the side mirrors. You use them to indicate in which direction you’re heading. Before an MOT test, it’s not enough to check if they’re turning on and working. You also have to ensure that they’re properly blinking. If they’re quickly blinking, it’s indicative of burned-out bulbs.

Don’t forget about your interior car lights. Many drivers are too caught up checking their car’s exterior lights that they forget to check those located inside the cabin. From cabin lights to dashboard lights, you have to make sure that all these are in tip-top shape as well.

Know that the checking should be done regularly. Inspecting your car’s lighting and signalling system before taking it to an MOT Welling garage is vital. However, it’s a task that you must do beyond MOT season. Before you hit the road, always inspect this system because its working condition can affect your, your passenger, and your fellow motorists’ safety.

When it comes to MOT Welling, locals trust Claremont Motor Engineers. Contact us today and book an appointment with one of the best garages in Welling.

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Submitted on: June 21, 2022 03:36:46 AM
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