Halogen lamps or 'Hello no lamps'? But then as in 'cheap halogen lamps'. Those are the wonderful things of which you have two for the 1 euro 99 with the Action and similar price stunters. And that is too expensive. Except for emergencies.
In the classic that one of our employees has to bring through the winter, a couple of those budget lamps were put into it. Just. Because they were there and because it is a nice feeling to go to the RDW with fresh headlights.
The car got the full disapproval of its 'light image' of the cheap halogen lamps. Instead of a clear, sharply defined light image, the 'Chinaware' lamps projected a few faint fog spots.
And even the proud owner of the car could not but give the RDW judge the same as the disapproval.
With a pair of Philips White Visions (say 25 euros) behind the lenses, the license plate inspection a week later was no problem.
The same judge only had to check the light image of the car.
He had already found the rest to be in order.