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Hey Guys, I've had my Coupe for only around 3 months now.

The Poxy compliance globes have annoyed me the whole time, so I figured it was time to do something about it.

A bit of background, the Car was complied March Last year in Sydney & I am the second owner.

She's up for rego & the PS Headlight has only ever worked intermittently.

So, I pulled the inner guards out for a bit of a look.

f**k Me, what a Mess.

Both igniters cut off inside the Headlights & Turfed.

Both Ballast conectors cut off & Turfed.

No Cover on the PS Headlight opening & one of the crimped on connectors half off (hence the short.).

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So it looks like I'm gonna need some Parts.

Rang the workshop who did the compliencing & no go, quote " we throw all the parts we remove.

Friggin Great.

So Ebay it is then.

Found these, Genuine Nissan, used, in the US 2 of, I'll take em.

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And these, Generic HID Ballast connectors to use one end of.

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These Genuine Phillips D2S Globes

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And I'm in business.

Unfortunately the Headlights need to come out as the igniter wires were to short to allow for a proper repair.

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Glad I pulled them out for another reason too.

DS had 2 screws rattling around in it & PS had 1, they were the screws that hold the globe clip in, obviously the work of an unsteady hand.

Below, one of the igniters with cut wire attached.

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Unfortunately thats the end of the Pics as time was getting away from me.

I didn't want to get caught & be finishing in the dark.

Thats the Guts of it anyway,

Genuine in tact igniters, properly soldered & heat shrinked Ballast connectors & Phillips Globes.

All Back together now & working perfectly, including the headlight steering movement.

Forgot to add earlier, most of the clips holding the inner guards on were missing too,

So far between replacing broken & missing clips in the front I have put 30 new ones in her.

So its all good now, Looks factory, with no sign of the previous workmanship.

The HID's are awesome by the way, its a shame that compliance forces us to have the totally useless & downright dangerous Halogen conversion done.

Cheers.

Edited by mycarhasposessedme

Nice work there. Pity the compliance workshop made a dog's breakfast of it all. Might be worth mentioning who did the compliance work so that people know to avoid their services.

Thankfully, my compliance guy up in Brisbane (I'm in Sydney, mind you) did an excellent job and followed my strict instruction of making sure the modification was reversible. He left plenty of slack on the ballast 12V connectors for resoldering and glue heatshrink. The bulb connectors were sitting loose inside the housing so I had to make sure the AFS switch was set to off in order to avoid the mechanism getting jammed and upsetting the motors. The hole drilled into the housing to allow the 12V wiring to go to the halogen bulb was the bare minimum, which made it easier to plug the hole up with silicone thereafter.

At any rate, you've got it all under control there. Nice write up! I'm sure someone here is in a similar position who can take advantage of this.

Cheers Tony, yep all sorted.

Sounds like your guy is doing it the right way, good stuff.

Not real keen to name & shame in public, however, if someone really wants to know, send me a pm & I'll fill you in.

Nice informative post Trevor, something extra for us import owners to think about \ look for, after our Skyline's have been complied :)

Some of us are lucky and got to keep the HIDs

okay so my normal headlights are definitely xenons (blueish tinge) but my high beams are yellow (halogen)

did you replace the high beams too?

V36 came with bi-xenon headlights so low/high beam are the same HID bulb, you might be talkin about the built-in fog/down lamps which are a H1 halogen by factory. :)

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