Picked these up from an Australian member (thanks, Nic, good seller BTW).

I was sick the end of this past week, so I haven't had a chance to get to my garage. I have to work this week, so it might be a while before I get them put on.

Australian/UK grill
AUS clear corners
AUS amber signals

Getting the grill painted will be my biggest challenge, especially matching 17 year-old Aztec Red. The signals are very slightly different color from each other. I can't explain that one, maybe it was parked in the sun a certain way.

 

ibtheysitinthegaragecornerfor2years...

 

Great find on the grill & corners! I've been lurking around eBay UK for months (lol actually closer to a year) trying to find one of the stock UK/AUS spec grills, but to no avail. Any idea if the member you purchased these from has a way to get one more grill?

 

The car might sit in the garage...but, I should be able to put the corners and signals on after work easily sometime this week.

Getting the grill painted might be a longer story, just because I don't want to screw it up.

 

Very nice!!!

Heard the shipping was astronomical though...

Mind me asking what you paid (in shipping that is)?

 

The shipping is a funny story, he paid $58.60 (?) AUSTRALIAN dollar (So about, $35-40 ish USD I think), for standard shipping, the post staff put the wrong sticker on the box, and it went via priority air mail, got there in about 10 days, if that.

Its weird seeing a picture of my old stuff on the other side of the world.
Dont have an explanation for the different tint of orange either dude...they seemed very slightly different when I posted them (not enough to notice unless you put them right next to each other), but in that pic they look alot more different to each other...hope theyre not fading out.

 

Don't worry about the signals, it's not your fault. They are identical and both have the Nissan emblems on them. Mostly, I wanted the clears and the grill, anyway.

I wasn't really in a hurry to get them, but the mistake by the AUS postal service was a nice bonus.

I think the parcel made it from AUS to the US in 3 or 4 days, but I was a bit scared that customs was going to confiscate the lights (non-DOT approved) because they sat there for almost a week.

 

Well, can't you technically still buy non-DOT approved items anyways? You just can't have install it on a road legal car; cars that are strictly for off road use only aren't subject to DOT laws.

 

ooohh... nice. are you gonna paint the grille all-red? or the frame red and the fins black or chrome or something?

 

Nice man, those corners are clean. I've had a white version of that grille sitting on a shelf for about year and a half. Thrown it on the car a couple times, but still don't know when i'll have it painted, got an 89-91 version, plus one corner like yours and one fully smoked on the way, as well as some things I ordered almost a year ago from Nissan. The waiting is so annoying, that's cool you got your stuff so quick, saves much anticipation..

 

Nice Cliffy. Always liked the uk corners. Hard to find.

 

Yeah, but I know another guy that had a 4th gen and he bought some Cefiro lights and they were all confiscated by customs and destroyed. The scenario was a bit different, in that he bought quite a few sets of them to resell.

My plan is to paint it red, but if it looks too "loud" I might go back and put black on the inside of the fins, like a stock US one.

 

personally i would do he black fins... just a little something to help 'lead the eye' so to speak. that's my main beef about the new '09 Challengers... there's NOTHING to lead the eye on the side of the car (pinstriping, molding, fancy sporty decals, etc).. just a big, flat expanse of color. For some reason it really bothers me.

 

sweet, been awhile since ive been on here ( had a 4th gen) good to c ya. later

 

Croikey! (spelling?)

 

95bkackmax18s, that is one clean lookin 4th gen man. Very nice

To the OP, nice find, sweet on the fst shipping and +1 for the black fins

 

methinks it's spelled without the "o"

 

Crikey*
Nobody seems to say that anymore since Steve Irwin died...the coolness in saying it kind of left when he did

 

Yeah i always thought everyone there said that lol. And i never missed The Crocodile Hunter when it came on. It's too bad...

 

Update:

I added the corners the other day. They look very nice, IMO. The wiring is different, including the plugs, so I took out the insides from my USDM ones. No parking lights on the AUS corners, only the brake light bulb that gets brighter when you turn on the signal.

For now I have no parking lights and I am deciding if I want to cut open the inside of the AUS ones so I can use them. I also had blue ricer bulbs to go with my old fake HID headlights. I need to replace the blue with some regular bulbs, since I did the 9007 conversion last fall.

The amber turn signals also have a different plug than the USDM clear ones (I have no idea why they need different plugs). They are easy to swap, though. I am just deciding if I like the clear better.

I found someone to paint my grill, but he is out of town for a couple of weeks. I haven't figured out a good way to remove the Nissan hamburger without damaging it.

Here is a pic of the AUS corner (yes, I have some nasty rock chips on the front of my car -- they use gravel in the winter instead of salt -- at least the car is rust free):

 

odd looking little suckers but me likely

 

paint the grill and throw it on already. damn tease

 

Our park lights are inside the main headlight assembly, not the cornering lights....thats weird, but it explains all the pictures Ive seen of both cornering lights on at the same time.

I say pry off the hamburger and use the one off your current grille, that'd look awesome. Not sure how it sticks on, looked like a stupidly fast setting glue thats likely to be illegal everywhere except Mexico - but I'm sure you can find some.

 

interesting..... pics of where the parking lamp bulb attaches on the Aussie headlamp assy? i know you guys have a different (better) front glass than the USDM ones.. i had no idea there was a 2nd bulb inside there tho

 

Yeah I can get a pic, I'm not sure which is headlight, high beams and parks...but theres 2 bulbs towards the grille, and a lone bulb on the outer sides of the assembly.
*..** grille **..*

So your park lights are alot dimmer than cornering lights yeah? or if your driving, are both sides of the car illuminated by the park lights?

 

using my old avatar as an example..
we have the amber bulb at the back. it is on the parking light circuit. the dim white bulb (clearance lamp) is on with parking lights as well, and usually dim. however when the headlights are on and you use your turn signal, these light up bright in the direction you are turning (i love this feature). and in the front it's a single dual-filament bulb that takes care of high and low beams.

if you do what i did, you can get the little amber ones to blink too (craig brace mod #1... only on right side tho). and i'm going to wire my clearance lamps to be full-bright when i have my highbeams on (to help spot those evil lurking deer.... do you have deer in Australia?)

 

I need to get in touch with the guy that can do it for me. Hopefully, in the next month or so. Depends on timing and days off. He is out of town a lot.

I just happened to go by the boneyard today to try and find an emblem for the grille. (Hectic, it was the old U-Pull-It on Foster -- can't remember the new name).

$1.99 for five emblems and $.50 charge for some type of environmental fee.

The top emblem is the original:

Bonus points if you can tell me what they are from...hehe



Here is the original on the grille:

It is smaller than anything I could find at the yard:



This is the smallest one I could find:



This is "under consideration" but it might be hard to get to stay on there without ruining the grille. The blue matches my license plates, too:



(close up)

 

^^^^^^^^^^^

2nd row from the top on the left from a 350z? just a guess

 

No Deer in Australia, but plenty of animals that can mess up our cars (my first J30, where that grille is from, was previously owned by my parents, and driving interstate, hit a Kangaroo (dont laugh y'all) at 100kmp/h, the car needed a new radiator, fender, lights, hood, allignment and paint (pearl gold), mirror, etc all up about $7'000 - could have been alot worse and put its 150kg+ body weight through the windshield and killed us)

Cliff, I think the smallest looks good, just need to polish the background to get rid of that circle on the paint from the original...
Is it just a glue that holds it on, or was it a clip or pop rivet?

Badges (my guess)
Mine
350Z - Stagea
4WD (Patrol maybe?)
?? - Murano?

 

The original emblem was glued and also had two straight pieces that went through holes on the grill. I guess it was just to make sure it was lined up, since there were no clips or rivets holding it in. I am going to have the grille painted before I use it, so the circle mark will be sanded, primed and painted over.

haha, we don't have a Patrol or Stagea here.


Since it was at a junkyard, I was looking for similar emblems.

The top one is the original AUS Maxima

The next row are trunk emblems (metal) left is an Altima (95ish) the other is from a Stanza (with the blue background). I thought maybe the Altima would be cool because I could paint the inner part Aztec Red, but it's a little large to fit on the grille correctly.

Center is from the back of an 88ish Maxima. I grabbed it for no good reason.

Bottom row are: 94ish Sentra (back emblem, smaller) and Quest Minivan (larger emblem).

All came from the back of vehicles. Most front emblems were chipped up or missing.