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on the weekend victorian police had nothing better to do than set up a roadworthy station down at rye, they got me for a tyre, dvd player working while driving, taking my bov off (dont know how thats a roadworthy issue) my dash was half hanging out (ok this one was my stupid fault, and my xenons, which is goin to be the biggest pain in the ass out of all of them... can somone tell me whats involved , has anyone personaly converted them for compliance??

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F!#k the damn cops! Got you for a DVD player, just cuz he can have a screen in his car dumb F!!K, did he ask you dumb questions like "where is your intercooler" duuhhh... :( LOL

He got you for the xenons, man hes got nothing to do or hes dumb. Stagea's came with xenons like the R34's (I think?)

Take you BOV off, get the canary off then put it back on. Can you hide your DVD player? Do it so you can get the canary off and change that tyre.

Its minor things but its a head f!!K

BOV's are the 1st things they look for, cuz of noise bla bla bla... Lucky he didn't say anything about your exhaust.

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He got you for the xenons, man hes got nothing to do or hes dumb. Stagea's came with xenons like the R34's (I think?)

They do come standard, but they are supposed to get the chop when brought into the country. So hes definitely not dumb

They do come standard, but they are supposed to get the chop when brought into the country. So hes definitely not dumb

That depends entirely on the state the compliance was done in - Here in WA they go through compliance with the zenons untouched, but a few guys here got their car complied in Qld and they arrive over here with the headlights butchered back to Halogen :(

they are actualy illigal australia wide, i knew that already, yeah stageas and r34's have xenons standard but they r illigal cause they arent self leveling like the mercs and BMW's VW ect. thats why they have to be taken out... i actualyy got done for no bov.. i took off the standard bov cause i like the flutter sound... sound funny ey... " man a cop canaried me cause i didnt have a blow off valve" haha.. yeah the dvd screen thing is f**ked... there is 1000's of cars with GPS whats the diference... my screen is also GPS.. i didnt wanna argue though i just wanted to get out as quick as possible..

it was saturday night.. about 7ish i think.. was in the carpark on the beach, just b4 the carnival.. there was about 5 people looking over my car, some may have been vic roads people cause not every1 was in uniform

As far as I know, Zenons to be ADR (Australian Design Rules) compliant need to have;

a) Automatically self levelling headlights (Stageas only have manual levelling by dash switch) AND

b) Self?? washing facility on headlights (water nozzle). Not sure whether a wiper on the headlight is required as well.

We don't have either on the Stageas....so is technically a defect.

they are actualy illigal australia wide, i knew that already, yeah stageas and r34's have xenons standard but they r illigal cause they arent self leveling like the mercs and BMW's VW ect. ......

Well, I didn't know that! And going by the amount of S2 stageas and R34's getting around Perth with the zenons on them, neither do the cops and compliancers......

compliancers usually give you the "option" of taking your xenon's back, or making the conversion reversible... what you do after that is totally up to you and out of their control. but as part of national compliancing rules, most japanese xenons are removed as they don't meet the regulations (self levelling and cleaning).

bad luck canary, but everything the copper got you for is legit. DVD player you could argue is for GPS, but you had to have a map on your screen, not MTV's latest hits. When switched to DVD mode it should have been off unless the handbrake was up.

^^Well ok I think someones gota fill me in on what Automatically self levelling headlights are. To me Xenons are just head lights...

Do they adjust the beam of light themselves or something?

2 friends of mind had a R34 GTT with Xenons and had no probs...

^^Well ok I think someones gota fill me in on what Automatically self levelling headlights are. To me Xenons are just head lights...

Do they adjust the beam of light themselves or something?

2 friends of mind had a R34 GTT with Xenons and had no probs...

xenons tend to flare a lot more than regular halogens, so that means when you're going up a hill or down a slope, you can potentially blind oncoming drivers and the driver in front of you... you'll have noticed this when driving around and some cars with xenons seem to have their high beams on when goin over bumps, or the headlights change colours. A self levelling xenon stays relatively in the same position regardless of the angle of the car, avoiding those issues. ADR's state that unless a xenon is self levelling it has to be retrofitted with halogens, and ADR's apply nationwide.

I am super busy right now.. but I converted my lights just recently and can still vividly remember it

I have not had time to read the above posts but if nobody has offered help/solved the problem I am more than happy to speak to you over the phone and tell you exactly how to retrofit them

I still have all my original bulbs etc from the complaince joint

PM me and we can swap contact details ( if you still need help )

gps is illegal anyway, same as a dvd player. There are lots of laws they don't enforce.

The things they got you for are all legit, tires is just STUPID, BOV off for flutter=noise polution and makes the car run shit...

I have been pulled over at random times when heading down to rye for the weekend(3am on friday nights lol), been in my gf's supra, and they never checked the car, and were all nice guys.

-Ryan

compliancers usually give you the "option" of taking your xenon's back, or making the conversion reversible... what you do after that is totally up to you and out of their control. but as part of national compliancing rules, most japanese xenons are removed as they don't meet the regulations (self levelling and cleaning).....

Well, that just confirms my suspicions of the dodgy compliancers here in WA because I know of at least one S2 stagea that has come from the workshop with the zenons completely untouched. :banana:

That depends entirely on the state the compliance was done in - Here in WA they go through compliance with the zenons untouched, but a few guys here got their car complied in Qld and they arrive over here with the headlights butchered back to Halogen :(

As others have already pointed out its entirely not up to the states :banana: ADRs are nation wide, and they made the rule. All imports should have theirs removed and replaced with halogens :)

xenons tend to flare a lot more than regular halogens, so that means when you're going up a hill or down a slope, you can potentially blind oncoming drivers and the driver in front of you... you'll have noticed this when driving around and some cars with xenons seem to have their high beams on when goin over bumps, or the headlights change colours. A self levelling xenon stays relatively in the same position regardless of the angle of the car, avoiding those issues. ADR's state that unless a xenon is self levelling it has to be retrofitted with halogens, and ADR's apply nationwide.

Yeah thanks! I see whats going on now. Still nothing too much to worry about but the laws the F!#king law LOL.

its not that they're dodgy, I'm sure there'd be a lot more people whinging if they butchered the lights, then destroyed the xenons like theyr'e supposed to. Any aftermarket or non ADR part that comes off a compliance car is supposed to be destroyed... if everyone stuck to the letter of the law, I doubt anyone would want to import.

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