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Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights installed?
Just wondering because I think it would look pretty cool having city lights and no front parking lights.....
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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (FFWD)

Well, quite a few people in here know local and sometime national laws....
What I want to do is snip the wire that is powering the parking light portion of my front blinkers and power my city lights with that. I think that would look pretty cool just having the city lights and no more amber parking lights....
Anyone know?
 

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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (schleppy)

I don't know for sure, but as long as your city lights are amber to replicate the parking lights I think you'll be cool...
 

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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (schleppy)

You would be fine...this is how the cars are across the pond, and I am not sure anyone would care to notice the diffference over here....
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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (corduroy79)

as long as you dont live here in hawaii...
you can't get away w/ jack shiz over here
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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (4NRYDE)

In BC the motor vehicle act indicates that a car must have at least two lights emitting an amber color on the front of the car, that are separte from the white lights illuminating the road. So in BC that is the case i dont know about MA though so you might wanna look into the DMV for info
 

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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (ckone1)

No, it's not driving around with parking lights, it is for when I am really in the city using the city lights, and cruising around town.
I personally (and i know many agree) think that city lights look pretty cool, and it would be nice to drive around with just those instead of parking lights.
Also, I do drive around with parking lights on sometimes when the weather is crappy but it is not quite dark enough to have the headlights on....
 

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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (schleppy)

its a good rule of thumb that ANY deviation from stock is "not street legal". the question isnt "CAN this mod get me a ticket?"...its "WILL this mod get me a ticket?"
 

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Re: Do I legally have to have front parking lights if I have city lights? (VolkSchnell-GTI)

quote:[HR][/HR]I got a dumb question. Why are you driving around with just your parking lights on???
exactly....
just drive it.[HR][/HR]​
LOL. i used to do that back in the day when i ran around in my fox. cause i thought i was cool.
silly me!
 
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