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I have had my 99' r34 GT-T for about 2months tops. In this time; my left head light has not worked, both low beams have not worked and now my right head light doesn't work? wtf is the deal with this. My car has a 3 year warranty, so it is costing me nothing to have them fixed each time. But it is a huge inconvenience having to take my car in to get it's headlights fixed every few weeks.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

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Did they give you any indication as to what they did to rectify the problems when you took it in?

Sounds like a faulty earth or connection or something, they screw around with the lights at compliance so who knows what kinda wiring is behind there.

Hope you get it all sorted out, i'm getting an r34 shortly hope this isnt a common problem.

As a side note my 2 year old falcon has had the same kind of problems with one of the headlamps.

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They stuff the good xenons and replace them with halogens at compliance shops .

Thats the reason you have problems with them .

I thought it was something like that, so there would be all new wiring for them. What a strange thing to do, the xenons must be to good I guess.

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I thought it was something like that, so there would be all new wiring for them. What a strange thing to do, the xenons must be to good I guess.

No new wiring at all , they use all the existing wiring , take out the balasts and destroy the xenon fiting to fit a halogen globe . Because the h/light is designed for xenon globes , the light is so poor you cant see at night when its rainning .

The hid globes are 35 watt , the halogens are 55w so the wires get hot and you get a voltage drop as well .

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Thats is a werid problem i just got my R34 GT-T and there is no light problems with it. Mine is a 98 GT-T, most times they come from Japan with Xeon Units and they are not allowed in Australia because they have auto focusing. For example the ones on Mercs and BMW are manual in the since that you can control the beams.

Iam fairly intested in this problem, tell me how it goes.

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When both lights didn't work (only didn't work on lowbeam) they said it was a relay problem. I didn't bother to ask about the one head light, but i will most certainly ask thi time around. Getting quite pathetic, sure am glad I have a 3 year warranty. :P

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Jitesh, I think you got it the wrong way round. The European cars are the one with an auto-leveler system (required in AUS) and the Japanese cars don't. The motor gear set required to make them legal would be out of question for most importers. Hence the switch to halogen.

Noxious, if you can get your hands on the original xenons from anywhere... GET THEM! They are worth it and will definitely give you less dramas... not to mention they look FULLY SIK (sorry, just had to add that :P)

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Jitesh, I think you got it the wrong way round.  The European cars are the one with an auto-leveler system (required in AUS) and the Japanese cars don't.  The motor gear set required to make them legal would be out of question for most importers.  Hence the switch to halogen.

Noxious, if you can get your hands on the original xenons from anywhere... GET THEM! They are worth it and will definitely give you less dramas... not to mention they look FULLY SIK (sorry, just had to add that :P)

To comply with ADR they have to be auto ajusting and self clean .

Xenons have excelent light thats the main thing but the h/light must be designed for xenon , not halogen and then converted .

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It's not auto levelling.

It's manually adjustable from the cockpit, which my R34 GTT has.

The thing that makes them illegal is the no sech washer system, but that means that there are several OEM cars which are also illegal.

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It's not auto levelling.

It's manually adjustable from the cockpit, which my R34 GTT has.

The thing that makes them illegal is the no sech washer system, but that means that there are several OEM cars which are also illegal.

Dont forget it all depends on the year the car was imported , the self leveling /washer for xenons only came in 3-4 years ago . There is plenty r33 gtrs with them on ( all series III have them ) and a few old 34's around with them but can't be done now , they have to convert them .

I dont know any oem cars that dont comply , here is an example 02 stis have xenons in japan , the local cars have halogens because they wont comply with the 02 ADR .

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How obvious is it if the xenons have been removed and converted to halogen?

My '98 GT-t has (had?) xenon headlights and I cant see any evidence of anything having been done to them during compliance (I bought the car ready complied and registered). No obviously changed wiring or engraving on the headlight unit or anything. . .

Pete in Perth

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i have an r34 gtt. they ripped the xenons out for compliance. i had problems with me left hand lowbeam flicking on and off it endined up being a bad earth so i earthed it a little better that was a temporary fix though it was burning out globes every couple of weeks. so i just converted it back to xenon using a kaixen kit from bos importing. works perfectly now i suggest you get a hid kit or change em back to oem xenon. or you will keep having the same problem. i dont know how i coped with standard halogens they sucked xenons are much better.

seeing as its under warranty see if you can get the car dealer to source you some oem xenons. from memory new nissan ones are $2500 good second hands ones were about 1000-1500

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I like how no one mentions the fact that the dept of transport and police or whoever knows whats legal and whats not about these cars know about the xenons and why they are removed and how illegal they are to have.

They have been removed for a reason. If you get cought with them its an instant sticker.

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I like how no one mentions the fact that the dept of transport and police or whoever knows whats legal and whats not about these cars know about the xenons and why they are removed and how illegal they are to have.

They have been removed for a reason. If you get cought with them its an instant sticker.

if i worried about what is legal or not when modifying my skyline i might as well have bought a commo dumped it put rims on it and be done with it. Half the cops out there have no idea anyway they just know if it is too low or too loud.

on the brighter side of things though i have been through a few brethos lately and no cops have said anything about the lights.

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Just went through a RBT on Friday night... copper didn't even notice the fact I had some brighter lights on the car than "legally" allowed.

As with what Mad34 said, they really only car if its too low or too loud... besides, how many new cars do I see with much brighter lights (Mercs and Beamers).

For those who want them, go back to the place where the car was imported... offer them a $100 to call you the next time a "fresh" car arrives so you can do a swap over before the lights get ripped out of that one for compliance :P Be WAY cheaper than buying from Nissan (think about it, they were yours in the first place)

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if i worried about what is legal or not when modifying my skyline i might as well have bought a commo dumped it put rims on it and be done with it.  Half the cops out there have no idea anyway  they just know if it is too low or too loud. 

on  the brighter side of things though i have been through a few brethos lately and no cops have said anything about the lights.

Alot of us try to obey the law and have roadworthy cars..

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