If you have a 300zx with an airbag steering wheel and change it for an aftermarket non air bag wheel then it will fail the MOT.

Supra owner over here failed his MOT with after market wheel with out the airbag so be warned.

I wonder how many testers are aware of what year of Z32’s came out of the factory with an airbag equipped steering wheel?

Edited January 27, 20223 yr by Joely P

7 minutes ago, Joely P said:

I wonder how many testers are aware of what year of Z32’s came out of the factory with an airbag equipped steering wheel?

Not many I would say so lets hope they can get the right info on the day. Mine has an after market wheel but its a 1993 model with no airbags. 

I reinstated mine, took me several years because there are variations, but I got there in the end.

Bet many zed owners don’t know what year either ?.

1 hour ago, Joely P said:

I wonder how many testers are aware of what year of Z32’s came out of the factory with an airbag equipped steering wheel?

Probably about the same number that know if/when HIDs were factory fitted to the projector low beams.

Mmmmmm, what's an airbag?

Also why do people keep cats in their cars

BTW 1990 was a good year for carzzzz . .

Only 8 more years to no more MoTs anyway!

How do they know it used to have an airbag, apart from the airbag light on the original clocks ?

 

I have an aftermarket momo but i also have an aftermarket set of clocks that has no airbag light.

My Z failed because of HIDs fitted. Plus brake pipes corroded. One garage thought the MOT tester was harsh about the pipes.

Changing the HIDs over is only a 10 min job. All bake pipes are now changed. Booked in Monday.

what year were hids fitted?

Facelift, 1998+, series 6.

Surely if it’s an import and there’s no warning lights they are going to struggle to know what was specific to the model at production. 
Luckily mines an 89 and has the better non airbag early wheel anyway. 

On 27/01/2022 at 22:21, AndrewG said:

Probably about the same number that know if/when HIDs were factory fitted to the projector low beams.

Exactly - and I have never had an issue with HIDs either ? 

So how does the HID situation work if you retrofit genuine Nissan hids to an older model z32.

11 minutes ago, JaiKai said:

So how does the HID situation work if you retrofit genuine Nissan hids to an older model z32.

Before I bought the '99 spec OEM HIDs headlights  I asked my MOT tester about fitting them and the MOT test.  He told me that since they were

manufactured by Nissan for the Z32 and I could show that and the bulb and projector were designed to work together he would pass them. He

wasn't bothered by a lack of the "E" symbol on the glass. The fact that the car doesn't have self leveling fitted didn't matter either, but the UK spec

headlight washers need to work. 

Of course my experience may be down to an individual examiners interpretation of the rules, but two MOTs later no issues.

My zed failed on HIDs fitted last month.

56 minutes ago, arthur said:

My zed failed on HIDs fitted last month.

First time I've seen a 4.1.4 (c) Arthur. Was that the same tester who (presumably) passed the car previously with the HIDs fitted?

 

8 hours ago, AndrewG said:

Before I bought the '99 spec OEM HIDs headlights  I asked my MOT tester about fitting them and the MOT test.  He told me that since they were

manufactured by Nissan for the Z32 and I could show that and the bulb and projector were designed to work together he would pass them. He

wasn't bothered by a lack of the "E" symbol on the glass. The fact that the car doesn't have self leveling fitted didn't matter either, but the UK spec

headlight washers need to work. 

Of course my experience may be down to an individual examiners interpretation of the rules, but two MOTs later no issues.

I had the same experience - 99 spec's are designed for the car so they had no issues. My daily driver has aftermarket HID's fitted so they failed it. Took them off to pass and all good. 

I cannot remember if I changed them over as it was a couple of years.

tbh Andrew I was being lazy as it is only a 15 minute job to take out the hid’s

Having said that I think it was a bit petty as I have used the same garage for the MOT since importing the Z