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Modena Grand Master

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Whats the story with this?

Ive heard its illegal to have xenons on R33s cos they are not factory... no offence but stock headlights on R33 sucks balls... they emit an ugly yellow light and often the actual headlights go all yellow and need cleaning.

Im about to get an R33 and want xenons on it... :mad:

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Wink Grand Master

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Yes they are illegal because they are not factory but I have not heard of anyone being defected for it. Just don't get some insane blue (8000K+) HIDs and it shouldn't pose a 'pull-over' problem.

Or if you want it as close to legal as possible, source some Series III R33 GTR lights which have factory projector HIDs. A set is pricey though, around $1000 used bought from Japan's Yahoo! Auctions.

Primordial Grand Master

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Yeah you can get some HID kits from group buys for about $220.

As wink said, stick to white, and you'll be fine.

Legally, cars with xenon have to have self-levelling headlights for obvious reasons. If you put xenons in your standard headlights, it will be illegal, but 90% of the time, you wont get defected for it.

ferni Grand Master

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HID's are illegal unless the suspension is self-leveling... not quite sure how that works...

You can just put some decent philips halogen bulbs in your stock lights and they come up good. Only the older light plastic covers go yellow, the nice cars usually still look nice and clean. (its only the Series 1 GTS and GTR lights that go yellow, series 2 GTS are different).

You can put a HID kit in... not sure what i think of those...

The Series 3 GTR came with xenon's ... they are rare to buy 2nd hand, you can get them from yahoo japan sometimes, very rare that you'd get them landed here for much under 2k...

as for illegal to have lights that you can adjust thier level????? I doubt it since most cars have an adjustment on the headlights to get them set to a correct level.

Primordial Grand Master

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Oh ok, yeah you guys are right, it's self levelling suspension.

I was getting confused as my Lexus RX330 has self-levelling xenon headlights which move around as you go up a hill or around a corner or whatever.

scathing Grand Master

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It is illegal to have lights which you are able to move its position.. am i correct?? thats what i heard!!

like on the r34s, you are able to move the position via a knob or somesort..

Dunno about the R34, but my old man's BMW has manually adjustable headlights.

wrxhoon Grand Master

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HID's are illegal unless the suspension is self-leveling... not quite sure how that works...

You can just put some decent philips halogen bulbs in your stock lights and they come up good. Only the older light plastic covers go yellow, the nice cars usually still look nice and clean. (its only the Series 1 GTS and GTR lights that go yellow, series 2 GTS are different).

You can put a HID kit in... not sure what i think of those...

The Series 3 GTR came with xenon's ... they are rare to buy 2nd hand, you can get them from yahoo japan sometimes, very rare that you'd get them landed here for much under 2k...

as for illegal to have lights that you can adjust thier level????? I doubt it since most cars have an adjustment on the headlights to get them set to a correct level.

The lights must be self ajusting and they must have washers to comply with ADR.

The series III 33 gtrs that were imported under the old system were complied with the xenons legaly but under the new system you cant comply them unless thye are self ajusting and have washers .

All plastic h/lights go hazy / yellow in japan of course the older they are the worse but i have seen even 34 lights like that but not as bad as some 33's.

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