HID after market headlamp conversions on MKIV's not legal?

I have been asked by some MKIV Supra owners and a few Skyline and other car owners to try and adjust after market HID headlamp conversions to stop people in other cars "flashing" them through dazzle. I have often wondered the legality of these bulb conversions, and been dazzled myself by suspect headlamps on older cars. Here is the legal stance on them:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/drs/hidheadlamps

Most cars it is illegal. Something to do with the way the light scatters.

Supra's are rather good thou as they have a projector type lamp and therefore there is very little light scatter

More legal on a UK than a J-Spec thanks to the dildos

Surely the Facelifts would be even closer to legal due to no reflection from the insert?

I have them and i haven't once been flashed (by lights, i have been shown various bodyparts though). They are really bright but i'm pretty sure i have them set a little lower than they need to be just to be safe.

... Here is the legal stance on them:

 

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/drs/hidheadlamps

I'm no lawyer but, IMO, that statement is not 'law' (it starts by saying it's the DoT's view). Therefore, until a precedent is set (for example by a 'test case' - where somebody who has been stopped by the police and charged for having HID conversion bulbs fitted - has been heard by a court and judged) this is still a gray area.

Remember how 'speed camera (radar) detectors' were once considered to be illegal?

Mine came already fitted from Japan.

I have adjusted mine what i deem to be slightly lower than standard, i have had no issues of flashing & none before i lowered them. Would be interesting to know if anyone has had MOT issues with them yet?

I have the 4300k HIDs on my J-spec, but they are UK glass lights with the matt black inserts done by gzaerojon, and I haven't had any issues whatsoever.

I've even had them adjusted at the MOT to full legal height, and no issues there either.

You need dildos and the lights have to be self adjusting.

This doesn't seem to affect Renault Lagunas though, they always seem to be sending ET a message by morse code...

Mine passed through the mot no probs

Some of the newer BMW's have servo controlled headlamp levelling via a pot on the front struts sending a front ride height signal to a headlamp ecu. Such were the problems with lamp oscillation (the dithering the lights seem to make as they adjust) that there were many software upgrades. To me the whole thing seems very complicated!

In Denmark the law says a max of 4300K, and that you need auto leveling lights as well as washers. The last is needed to make sure the light doesn't scatter.

May UK's more or less the same?

But again it is quite easy to switch between the two, right? I always carry my stock bulbs in the car.

Mine don't seem to upset anyone either. Facelift VVTi TT Our CL500 gets a flash or two.