M35 Lighting

[stagman]

Right, Soooooo the dream boats doing my compliance when my car arrives will not agree to turn a blind eye to the headlights and the fact there xenon. Apparently here in WA the car needs to go over the pits also?

DOES anybody know a way around this? It is the absolute last thing i want to happen, both times with my last two stagea's the guys doing the compliance let it slide, not this prick though." Do you have any idea of dangerous xenons are!" "Do you know how distracting they are" 'Sorry mate, i want people to know im f**king coming so they don't hit me!!!!'.

I need ideas people, even to the point of borrowing some butched headlights that have the poo halogen already fitted.

HELP! Any will be appreciated.

Cheer's!

[iamhe77]

Ask for all the Xenon bits that come out to be returned to you, then install them after going through the pits?

OR

Have the guy rewire the lights as cleanly as possible, leave all the Xenon bits in there and give the globes to you.

Return to factory spec when you have the car.

[stagman]

Ask for all the Xenon bits that come out to be returned to you, then install them after going through the pits?

OR

Have the guy rewire the lights as cleanly as possible, leave all the Xenon bits in there and give the globes to you.

Return to factory spec when you have the car.

Yeah i know what your saying and if it was as easy as that i wouldn't ask .

The problem is though when they install the halogen lights...they butcher the dream boats beyond repair, I have seen it numerous time(Anyone care to differ?). I would have to buy the entire back half of the light again in order to re-install them.

What i want is the flamin mongrel to not touch the lights which i have paid for. (Understood this is a problem with importing with xenon but no other compliance guy has had an issue untill this shiner!) I might go look at his cars in his yard and see to what extent he frankensteins them.

Still...anyone with some other ideas is more then welcome to elaborate! Please

Scott

[slippylotion]

Only suggestion I have is to buy another set when you get the car back from him. I can see his point as he could get audited on that car and catch him out. RAWS choose cars to audit at random so you can't say it won't happen and it covers his ass. Im lucky I got to keep mine

[stagman]

Only suggestion I have is to buy another set when you get the car back from him. I can see his point as he could get audited on that car and catch him out. RAWS choose cars to audit at random so you can't say it won't happen and it covers his ass. Im lucky I got to keep mine

Yeah, had the same thing with my last two cars. Guy's let it slip as long as i said i put them back in ha.

By sounds of it, my compliance guy is an old prick with a grudge for cars with HID's; to quote, " You know how bloody dangerous and annoying it is all these high end European imports with the lights that blind you"

[barnze]

Hey sorry to hear about the problem with the lights, over in N.Z there are no issues with having them..why are they dangerous?

[slippylotion]

The issue Australia has with them is that they aren't self leveling so they can shine in the eyes of on coming cars. I don't know why they couldn't keep them but disable the manual height adjustment and just have them at a fixed lower point than the manual adjust will allow.

But Australia apparently knows best.

Edited October 6, 2011 by slippylotion

[stagman]

That and that there is no auto wash for the lights..... like the windscreen spray except for your headlights....another silly ADR

[jasevr4]

Again, my lack of knowledge is staggering in these parts, but would you be better off purchasing non HID's and supplying them to him, and then keeping the lights that came with the car for a latter date?

[stagman]

Yeahhh I know... But I think there's a fair bit more involved then just that... they literally drill a hole through the back where the factory hid's once fitted. I guess Ill further negotiate with the prick haha...unless someone has a pair of halogen M35 lights sitting about!

[Ross]

I have a M35 and V35 both complied here in Perth.

With the stagea they removed all the HID gear, although it was easy to replace.

The V35 they simply removed the bulbs and cut the wires, so when the car went over the pits i just put in the hid bulbs and reconnected 2 wires.

[Paramour]

Yeahhh I know... But I think there's a fair bit more involved then just that... they literally drill a hole through the back where the factory hid's once fitted. I guess Ill further negotiate with the prick haha...unless someone has a pair of halogen M35 lights sitting about!

Another option is to take delivery of the car and arrange for another workshop to comply.

[slippylotion]

That's a hard one thing to change as that workshop would have the import approval so you can't just take it to any compliance shop unless they agree for you to do so. I doubt they would agree as it's money lost for them.

[Chris Rogers]

since you are brissy based - which RAW?

[iamhe77]

The problem is though when they install the halogen lights...they butcher the dream boats beyond repair, I have seen it numerous time(Anyone care to differ?). I would have to buy the entire back half of the light again in order to re-install them.

Northshore complied my Stagea back when they used to leave the halogen's in there.

Was driving around for a while with halogen lights, then decided to go back to the factory Xenon's.

Northshore had left all the HID gear in there and all I had to do was remove the H4 globe, unclip the + and - wires (they use a clip so it was very easy), then put the globe in and plug it in (the Xenon wiring was tucked down in the headlight housing).

Just saying, they don't have to butcher the factory Xenon's when installing halogen's.

Edited October 6, 2011 by iamhe77

[jasevr4]

Is there any way to tell if my NM35 RS Four had Xenons?

Does it make any difference? It doesn't have them now - if it had them before would it be easier to put the standard Xenons back in?

[iamhe77]

Yeah, take your headlights out (remove front bumper to do so) and look for a black plastic box that looks like it is attached to the grill side of the housing, if the plastic is a slightly different shade or if there is a hole.

The box is the ballast for your Xenon's.

If it is still there, look inside your headlights for a large silver plug (it has a mesh protecting the wiring).

If you are lucky and still have that, you have your Xenon's in tact, just remove the halogen globe and wires and plug in a D2R globe

[Dunc]

From memory Jase, when your headlights turned on in the garage the colour looked like it was the same as mine is with the Xenons in it.

Scott, I might have the internal wiring for hooking up Halogens - I can double check it over the weekend if you'd like.

[jasevr4]

Surely they would have picked up on my lights taking it through Regency if it had the Xenons? And if it does have Xenons, they must be pretty average Xenons - my Evo lights were WAY brighter and only Halogens..

[Dunc]

Surely they would have picked up on my lights taking it through Regency if it had the Xenons? And if it does have Xenons, they must be pretty average Xenons - my Evo lights were WAY brighter and only Halogens..

The only way to be certain it has/hasnt got Xenons is to take the front bar off so you can get the headlights out to look at the fittings; so I dunno if regency would have gone to that effort. I assume itd be possible to get a higher lumen rated D2R bulb but I've never looked into it. I do find my Xenons a lot brighter than the halogens compliance put in though!