CT: Is the Trailer Socket included?

Cars / Motoring / Insurance
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I have a CT coming up on my Hiliux in a few days. This is the first one in France, and is in order to register the vehicle here.

I have an issue with the trailer lighting socket, which has not been wired in “efficiently”. The previous owner spliced into the vehicle wiring, taking a feed off of each light’s +ve wire. This causes the hazard flashers to trip their circuit breaker when all 4 vehicle indicators, the vehicle repeaters and then the trailer indicators are operated. The trailer lights are just too much.
I have plans to redo the wiring with proper solid state relay for each lighting circuit, but I also have a floor to replace, broken gutters, VMC clogged with condensed water, etc etc to deal with. The trailer lighting scket is low down on my ist of priorites at the moment :wink: Unless it is going to cause the vehicle to fail the CT?
Anyone know if trailer light are tested in the CT, if a lighting socket exists? My gut feel is that they are …

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All I can say is that mine has never been checked. It wouldn’t be a fail anyway.

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Feu de gabarit (trailer lights) is on the list, but I believe if they fail it is an advisory and doesn’t require a “contre visite”.

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Is there any reason to think that the CT may be more stringent, or less lenient, for vehciles registered outside of France when the CT is to be used to obtain a Certificat d’Immatriculation ( hopefully)

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No but as Mark says it will only be an advisory. On my car the socket folds out of sight and I know that it’s never been folded down and tested.