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Hi guys,

My car is coming in pretty soon and I really don't want to lose my xenon lights during compliance. I was reading the RAWS manual and it says that you can re-export or destroy the parts. Are there any restrictions on re-exportation? As in, can I send them to a friend in New Zealand, and then get him to send them back to me? Or does it have to go back to Japan?

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Michael

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can goto NZ i presume, may be an expensive excercise tho wouldnt it?? :S

I always thought you just had to replace all the parts on it with stock stuff to comply it if its under SEVS...

how would it work and they be able to check it if you brought over a container with ur car and said it had all the aftermarket parts sittin in the back seat or the boot??? like im bringin parts in for mine that i have accumulated that while i have been over there but arent on the car yet, but also, my car doesn't need to go through SEVS compliance...

dojobi Experienced

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It'd be expensive, but probably not as expensive as rebuying the headlights.

The xenon lights don't comply, even though they're stock. It sucks, but that's SEVS for you.

I really don't know how it would work if the parts were in the car. I'd say they wouldn't worry about them. I can't exactly bring the car in without headlights though.

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You buy or borrow some Halogen ones and keep the Xenons at home. You do not have to destroy or export them. Any workshop that says you do is trying to stiff you. After your car is complianced and on the road, what you do with the xenons is up to you.

There is a user on here called Drifft or something like that who posted up info on this quite recently.

dojobi Experienced

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Yeah I just read that thread, but then read the RAWS guide that he posted, which seemed to indicate export or destroy were the only options. So I was a little confused.

If I could find someone that had Chaser halogens, I'd put them on it and hope for the best.

He's definitely right that they are MY lights, so what I do with them is up to me though.

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