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Is a flickering daytime running light an MoT failure?
The offside daytime running light on my 2016 Kia Cee'd intermittingly flickers. If this condition occurred during it's MoT would this be a failure?
Asked on 10 October 2019 by Alan Ashton
Answered by
Dan Powell
Daytime running lamps (DRLs) are only inspected (as part of the MoT) if they’re fitted as original equipment to cars first used on or after 1 March 2018. In this case, the car will fail the MoT if the entire light (or more than half of the LEDs) are is faulty.
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