RWDBajan

Hi all,


I recently bought a 2003 350Z which came with a set of Spyder Auto chrome DRL HID projector headlights.




Whoever installed them did a crap job of adjusting them. They are way too high - I'm sure that I am blinding oncoming traffic and I can't see squat on the road.


The adjusters look like this though (view from the top). From reading the manual the OEM headlights adjust from the top, with a long screwdriver. I see no way to adjust these that way.


Does anybody have any experience with these?

RWDBajan

DRL's aren't connected either

dkmura

iTrader: (64)

Sorry to say, most of us have avoided Spyder Auto like the plague. Not sure if you'll find any owners who have much experience with them.

uk buster

hi,just fitted a pair of these to my Z.ref the DRL s i disconnected the green and black wires on both lamps ,run an extension from the right hand lamp to the left then ran it back into the cabin and spliced into the 12v power stock in the passenger foot well....i now have DRL s on from the moment i turn the key.hope this helps.

RWDBajan

Thanks, helps with the DRLs. Guess I will have to pull them off and see how to adjust.


dkmura, why is Spyder to be avoided? I would have preferred the stock lights but they seem to fit ok. Looks wise they are not bad.

dkmura

iTrader: (64)

Their taillights are tacky and cheaply built, pure and simple. The headlights look to be more of the same, although they look a bit better. Most of us prefer the OEM versions, particularly the '06-08 models.

RWDBajan

Well I do agree that the OEMs are better. Wish whoever changed mine had sold the originals with it.


The tails are kinda tacky too. Not OEM, but a multi LED thing. Once I sort out the other stuff wrong with it (wheel bearing, clutch, broken outside passenger door handle, paint, CEL and airbag light.....) then heads and tails are next.

uk buster

the adjust you have in the picture does left to right from what i remember .. theres another adjuster (10mm headed bolt) slight higher up that adjusts up and down.

travlee

iTrader: (8)

so with all these problems.... what did you pay for the car, just curious

RWDBajan

Bearing in mind that I am in Barbados, where a new base model Mercedes CL-A hatch costs US$90k thanks to our ridiculous import duties.... let that sink in...


My Z is valued at Us$27k, I got it for $19k. There are fewer than 10 here and because of the age there will likely never be any more.

travlee

iTrader: (8)

man that is crazy, but to be in a crowd of few.... worth it

RWDBajan

Thanks, but there are two screws in the pic. The brighter one pointing towards the camera, and below it to the right a dirty gray one that's horizontal. Neither has any visible way to engage a driver whether screw, nut, Allen or spline.

travlee

iTrader: (8)

oh.... since you are from there.... let me get a local opinion on something. Kaniche xo rum

RWDBajan

I've never actually seen it here. They export our aged rum (probably Mount Gay) to France it seems, and re-age it again. The base is very good (I'm almost exclusively a Mount Gay XO drinker when I drink) so it should be good. Kinda pointless to me though . Whenever I go to Canada I carry along a couple bottles of XO for my friends in Halifax.

travlee

iTrader: (8)

funny you say that....prob same thing rebranded

http://www.proof66.com/rum/kaniche-xo-rum.html

"Kaniche rums are made in Barbados and aged in that hot climate in ex-bourbon barrels before being shipped to France. There, they are aged in small-cask French oak barrels for a period measured in months rather than years"

RWDBajan

Yeah.


http://www.mountgayrum.com/#/section/landing


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gay_Rum now owned by Remy-Martin in France.


By the way, rum was invented here

Enriquez2000

Old thread but here is your answer