Has anyone ever fitted headlights from another USDM vehicle to an X8?

[Big Fuckin Shooter 0]

Because the inspection authorities and cops around here are cunts, I'm anticipating they will fail my headlights at certification inspection for not being DOT approved (JZX81 Mark II) or I will get pulled over and get a VI because of same.

 

Which leads me to my question: Have any of you ever fitted headlights from something else to your X8, or do you know of anyone who has? Trying to think of alternatives in case I run into this issue. AE92 Corolla looks like it could work, but do you bros have any other ideas?

[Gordo 0]

I've always liked the 1960 Licoln headnlamp style:

 

But what may be doable is using the rectangler lamps from something like the Mk3 Supra.

[Andrew 0]

i know alex lee had a upside down silvia head light on his old cresta

 

[haymaker 0]

ls400 headlights maybe?

[NAC 0]

Can you just tell the cop that you are running USDM cressida lights?... the cops around here wouldn't know the difference...

[bradlee 0]

ES250

[Kyle 0]

what in the actual fuck?

[huckersideways 0]

Lol

[swim 0]

rig whatever in there to pass inspection, go back to mark headlights after you get your sticker

[Big Fuckin Shooter 0]

That's fine for a short term solution, but when I get pulled over by the Traffic Gestapo they'll look for that shit and send me back for another $300 inspection + all the time to switch all the little shit back to make it passable. No thx. You don't know my hell.

 

I think I'm going to try early 90's legacy, camry and corolla. Time to raid the junkyard.

[Austin 0]

So its legal to import and register that car, but not drive it? Im so confused.

[Big Fuckin Shooter 0]

It's legal to drive it, but the traffic cops here make it their mission to fuck with car enthusiasts, especially those with right hand drive cars, by pulling us over and requiring us to have full light vehicle inspections if they can find ANYTHING on your car that doesn't meet standards. For example they can subjectively say that because it appears you have ANY negative camber, just by eyeballing, that your alignment must be fucked and therefore your car is unfit to be on the road and must undergo a full inspection before it can be allowed back on the road again. I have seen them do this to a brand new bone stock M3, it's ridiculous. So if I get the wrong cop on the wrong day, he would look over my car with a fine toothed comb and pull it off the road because my headlights aren't DOT stamped.

 

Anyways I got it back on the road without having to change to DOT/USDM headlights so that's cool. Apparently licensed mechanics don't view it as being as much of a safety issue as the cunt traffic cops do.

[ChriSOL 0]

the only way to combat that shit is to:

 

1. quit fucking with any kind of car that gives cops hardons when they see you in traffic

 

OR

 

2. move the fuck away

 

personally, i will always choose option 2. i don't give a shit if there's NOTHING and NOBODY within a hundred mile radius of where i end up living, if i never have to deal with someone telling me how to live my life again.