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James_F

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Hey all,

So today I got pulled over for an RBT and the cop decided to have a look my R34 GTT skyline and he was commenting on the hid headlights first telling me they weren't stock then after I convinced them they are he started telling me that by law they have to be self leveling and what not, he didn't try to defect it or anything but took all my details and is going to ring the RMS and find out what the go is.

Has anyone elce had this told to them, the way I see it they are as they come from the factory and when its been imported has complied to Australia's RMS regulations.

Keen to know if anyone has any info about it.

Cheers,

James

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During a proper compliance when the car is imported from Japan, they should/would have taken out/cut off the factory HID ballast and convert it to H1 halogen bulb.

But in the last few years, compliance seems to have stopped doing that, maybe because there's just too many cars on the road with HIDs nowadays, but it still doesn't make factory HID on R34 legal...

So yes, it is defectable.

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Short answer: Yes.

Apparently for HID's to be legal, the lights need to be self leveling and self cleaning. Now I don't understand the self leveling part because 1) there are so many dip shits with halogen lights that aren't leveled properly and glare oncoming traffic anyway and 2) halogens aren't self leveling and will glare in the same situations that HID's will. Self cleaning is just for glare purposes

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