I live in Zurich by the way.
Has anybody had any such experience?
I have recently put eyebrows / eyelids on my car' headlights and I was wondering whether you needed to report this to the Zurich Strassenverkehrsamt or do anything else, i.e. report it to car insurance.
You have pimped your car lol sorry what are these eyebrows for your car please
If my memory serves me correctly all modifications to the normal running of the car need to be registerd with the Strassenverkehrsamt hence I suspect you have to register your change too...BUT I'm really not sure
From what I've heard you only have to declare things which might affect the performance of the car e.g. ECU chip, exhaust etc.. stick-on adornments should be OK, however they might be frowned upon during the motor vehicle inspection.. or even prohibited.
Hopefully someone a bit more clued up can jump in
Do you have a picture please?
Here are some pictures...See the strips on top of the lights...
That is so cute, and you have a very sexy car by the way
This is only legal if the parts have an E approval mark ("E-Prüfzeichen" in German). This is a lower case e in a rectangle and a number.
What do they do, make the car go faster maybe ?
As these modifications to the headlights will affect the headlight beam pattern, then they need to be approved by the STVA.
The STVA frowns on any lighting modification if the appropriate standards are not met.
If you bought them in Switzerland, then they should be pre-approved.
Otherwise, expect the inspector to say something when you go for your next vehicle check.
I don't get it: you actually pay to dim the lights and make the car look half asleep and this improves nothing, but could mean the car fails the test. And the upside is??
do those lids actually work? as in, can your headlights now blink? or is it just a static installation....
Here was me thinking you were meaning "proper" eyelids
http://myvwbug.files.wordpress.com/2...?w=2321&h=1781
Man, I miss my Beetle...
Funny, that's what I was thinking too and was trying to work out how that was going to look good on a BMW...
Then I saw his picture.
Still, it's got to be better than Audi fairy lights...
For a certain age and mentality - it looks cool and, more importantly, your mates think it looks cool which, indirectly, makes you cool.
(But I guess you know this )
I could never understand the upside of tattoos although there must be something about them as a lot of people have them.
Garden Gnomes is another one.
It's all a matter of taste and tastes quite often change as you grow up.
The orginal OP's probably only about twenty years old.
Many people psychologically prefer angry faced cars:
http://www.livescience.com/strangene...-car-face.html
Those parts make your car look more "angry"... that's it.
The discussion they seem to spark here make me want some... and I am older than 20.
My first-born fitted eyebrows to his Mini (a real classic, none of your modern rubbish), and very cute she looks too!
He's never had any problems with the "visite" (MOT) in Geneva, but they don't actually block the headlamps, just protect them from the rain.
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I can't help with the Swiss rozzers and headlight thingies, but I can give you some furry dice, an arial with a golf ball on top and a Rizla Racing sun-visor to complete the street car look
And you admit you own these things...?
Every guy.... of a certain age who had a Cortina or an Escort will have them. Not to mention those 'nice' steel wheels with the middle painted black.
Happy days..... and leaded petrol was the norm' and the Triumph Stag was the bird puller of choice.
way off topic sorry