Front lights

Actually, our rules are very relaxed.

You can have all sorts of lights etc. providing they are wired correctly into the dip beam etc. so they are only on in appropriate situations and they are "balanced" ie. 2 or 4 lights, not 3.

The "bullbars" are a grey area. First of all, any car built pre-2007 is fine, you will see all kinds of fabrication on the fronts of these.

Post 2007 the laws were introduced around not interfering with the manufacturers impact protection etc. This means that the process of a manufacturer getting a bar approved is costly and for a commercial seller to sell something unapproved, where it is for normal road use, is also not allowed. You will see products advertised as "for off-road use only".

However, the wording is much contested. Some people believe that you can still make your own or, as a buyer, you can buy one its just that commercial sellers cannot sell them. Hence you will see people buying them from outside the EU.

I have never heard of anyone being pulled up when the bar is well made. (anything clearly dangerous comes under construction and use regulations anyway). There has been one famous UK case about dangerous modification to a LandRover where a homemade chassis mount failed and the driver killed his own children when it rolled off the road, but this was again under dangerous construction rather than the concept of the modification being queried).

It depends who you talk to and their interpretation. If you google it you will see all sorts of different views.

Certainly the law changed and main vehicle manufacturers dropped products left right and centre.

The main work round that gets quoted most is that a bull bar is ok if it's a means of mounting an accessory namely a winch as opposed to lightning but if it is just what is called a frontal protection system it has to have been through the full homologation process and be type approved and be "pedestrian friendly" which is difficult and expensive to achieve. In case it isn't obvious from this and what Martin was saying it's a minefield of opinion and interpretation and is best left alone.