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Euro/Lexus Style Clear Tail lights for NB series

Postby nyet99 » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:54 pm

Has anyone out there installed Euro/Lexus Style Clear Tail lights on their NB series MX5. I've seen them on NA's but not NB's. Also, no-one in Australia seems to sell them for NB's. MX5Mania certainly don't show them on their Web site. I can get them from the UK from MX5Mad....

http://www.mx5mad.com/product_info.php? ... cts_id=200

...but I am not sure if they are legal here. Also I was hoping to be able to get them locally, if possible.

Can anyone advise? Thx

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Postby RG.net » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:11 am

autojoy can bring them in for you, there is a store located in parramatta and narellen, i think they want somewhere between $160 - 200 for them (dont quote me on that)
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Postby nyet99 » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:34 am

Thx for that, I'll give the parramatta store a ring tomorrow.

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Postby Okibi » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:23 pm

If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.

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Postby Benny » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:57 am

I have the black tail lights on my SP, and I think they are legal as the indicators are orange, and not red, and the reversing lights work too.
There is a red section on the right hand side light which is really for a rear fog light, which is not fitted to Aus delivered cars.

I think they look good.
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Postby PUR157 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:43 pm

re: Okibis post

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Postby Fuzzlet » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:58 pm

I quite like the black lights...They would look good on an SE....or in bennys case an SP with SE headlights :P
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Postby ducktape69 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:55 pm

Benny wrote:I have the black tail lights on my SP, and I think they are legal as the indicators are orange, and not red, and the reversing lights work too.
There is a red section on the right hand side light which is really for a rear fog light, which is not fitted to Aus delivered cars.

I think they look good.


any pics benny?
ive been wanting to get some more JDM looking lights...
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Postby stevesports » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:25 pm

re: car car with those black taillights, what wheels are those?

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Postby Okibi » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:48 pm

these?

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Postby marcusus » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:00 pm

^^^
Seems a bit of a waste of money for that rear bar. Doesn't have any major styling cues except for a slight lip. All to move the number plate below the light line...

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Postby AB7 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:02 pm

Yeah, the rear bar is quite ugly IMHO.
Nice wheels tho...you notice that a lot of Euro MX5 have these type of wheels. 3 piece, deep lip and 16\" fat tyres.

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Postby marcusus » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:49 pm

I wonder if they used the original bar and just tried to extend the line from the bits that existed next to the lights and ended up with that. I'm really surprised that it looks so strange considering the rest of the bar looks factory (for the most part). Perhaps they need to take into account the bootlid a little more when deciding which lines to use.

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Postby stevesports » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:47 pm

yeah those 3piece wheels. Looks lovely.


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