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Well unfortunatey I hit a roo this morning and damaged the LHF guard, smashed the light and some other bits incl the front radiator carbon fibre support. 60kmh 50 yards from holiday home....just jumped from a high block beside us in to my left headlamp.

Killed the eastern grey kangaroo unfortunately.

All the lining under the guard is damaged as well as the left parts of the rad support that supports the light assy. I think that will be a full replacement as not sure they can repair them.

Drove 300km home ok after the Racv guy used a crow bar to clear the wheel. No issues at 110kph so I am figuring all is well mechanically.

I am insured but I was wondering about parts and good repairers in Melbourne...

1. Can infinity headlights be adjusted for RHD.

2. Where can I point repairers for parts other than Nissan au....who say they do list the parts but have to import them.

3. Any good repairers in Melbourne who know these cars.

I am concerned more about availability of parts and quality of repair.

Sad day.

Gibbo

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She still drives great and 100k so there is nothing mechanical and still gets 9l/100km at that. They are awsome cars to drive.

It was just one of those things the roo just jumped right into my left hand HID headlight. Left it's fur in there and buggered the globe as well.

Had I not just been 50 m from my other home but on the open road it could have been much much worse and the car would have probably been totaled. Fortunately the air bags did not go off.

Regardless of opinions I am going to invest in an ultrasonic shu roo device as I have one on the 4wd and never hit a roo ...I figure that would have may be been the only thing that could help. Second roo I have collected the other one at 90kmh and that one flattened itself across the entire front bumper of my SS with almost no damage to the car.

So glad it was not a person but sad for the roo as it had a very young joey in the pouch... and I am one of those folks not that happy about culling.

Thanks for your thoughts.

***** Hey ...Can the USA headlights be used for Right hand drive cars (I'd doubt it). $600usd in USA $5000au via Nissan go figure.

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I wish they were and would like tom find out for sure first.

As Chris says the lights have a 15 degree offset to the passenger side in each country so that would mean the US ones would need to be ale to be adjusted 30 degres to the left. If they can then sweet it opens up a huge cheap market for us - $400 ea (plus shipping) rather than the $2500 each Nissan charge.

Can anyone confirm if this is possible please?

Gibbo

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Hi I was in the process of getting lights from the US, and Chris is correct (is the guy ever wrong) about the 15 degree adjustment, so there is not enough adjustment on the US lights to stop them from pointing towards on coming traffic. The place that complianced my car confirmed this as well. Frank bought the 2006 lights on his car. He can probably provide a more detailed account of the upgrade.

cheers

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