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24/7/2024 at 1:08pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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According to CAMC guidance on towbar wiring, and Gov regulations:
Post Oct 1979 manufacture, "trailers wider than 1.3m are legally required to be fitted with reversing light(s)", 1 or 2 depending on trailer length. They are powered by PIN 1 on the 12S plug/socket, or PIN 8 on 13 pin plug/socket.
"Pre Sept 2008 manufactured caravans can legally be towed with just the 12N socket functioning" (no reversing lights WORKING!)
Post Sept 2008 built caravans were manufactured with the 13 pin plug (with reversing light connection), AND fitted with compulsory reversing light(s), so by implication if nothing else, reversing lights should be functional!
Where it seems to go all 'fuzzy' in a legal sense, is if tow car only has a 12N socket (and seemingly no legal obligation to NOT fit one to any car even now!) and is incapable of powering reversing lights! It seems the law requires caravan to have reversing lights, but not the car to necessarily power them! Like many a legal conundrum, it'd likely take a court case and a ruling to define what stands, and AFAIK that's not happened yet!
Nothing I've seen instructs or implies retrofitting of reversing lights is required.
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24/7/2024 at 4:17pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 24/7/2024
My 1992 caravan was never fitted with reversing lights so if there's no obligation to retro-fit them I probably won't bother.
They are fitted as standard on my 2016 van, and they work, or should that be, 'function', but pretty much up there with chocolate teapots and fireguards in usability/benefit terms IMHO!
I've got a reversing camera on back of the van, but reversing lights, and yes there are two, not really powerful enough (standard, max permitted 21W bulbs) to make that very useable in unlit areas (works remarkably well in normal street lit areas!). As to door mirrors, so far away from the 'illuminated' area (such as it is!), again pretty hopeless. I've tried reversing onto pitches in total darkness when arriving late, and thought better of it, unhitched and Motor Moved into position so I can see where the back of the van is in relation to pitch boundaries and obstacles.
IMHO, only use is as an indicator to others that you are reversing! - that's not without merit though!
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