What's the diff between JDM and USDM tails? Or noone ever wondered, or I'm lacking search skills...

Riz.

 

nothing.


unless you get S4 tails from japan, it says "rotary turbo" or along those words.

 

yep. The JDM ones make you go faster though

 

Amen! nah there is little difference than the prev. posts in this forum..

 

dang tofuman, your avatar looks vicious! *rawr*

 

the diff is, they are made in japan.

OWAIT, all our cars were made in japan. just ours werent destined for the jap market... Vert/euro tails....thats a different story though!

 

you guys are wrong! the JDM ones are not DOT approved! lmao i dunno lol

 

Umm well here in australia, we have 2 sets of lights. Aus models have a more open garnish part for your rego plate, JDM ones have one the size of their rego plates.

Not too sure of you guys over in America, but there is a difference here. If you show me a pic of your standard ones i can compare it to my Infini's ones.

 

do the euro cars have a fog light??

 

I now got Euro S4 lights in a S5, but wanna get the wider S5 tails, so there's less space for a licence plate... I will then get the smaller plates which IMO look better, especialy on the front. Need a set quick though before i import the car from Germany. The reason I asked was because I see alot of JDM sets on eBay.

Thanks anyways guys, anyone got a set of US or Jap tails with licence frame?

Riz.

 

yeah i agree i have an aus delievered RX7 and its got a bigger space where the rego plate goes my mate has an imported one its got a smaller space the where the plate goes he had to bend his plate on the ends to fit it other then that i don;t think there is any difference

 

So is the Aus holder different from the JDM/US one, or is the Aus one like the US and different from JDM? Maybe it's easiest to compaire dimensions? Width and height?

Riz.

 

JDM/Jap/US are all the same, AUS is different from those three. JDM/JAP/US vert tails are different from the coupe tails, which are both still different than the AUS tails, that help clear anything up??

 

Yeah, THNX... JDM would be Jap, but yeah... Now I'm curious about the convertable tails though... HaHa!

 

If you want to fill the area, for a smaller plate, then use the US/JDM spec convertible/Cabriolet license plate section. It fills the area so that the standard US/Japanese plate fits in with a minimum of open area.



The US and JDM spec taillights for the convertibles are the same size as the standard Euro light (in fact I had Eurospec S4 tailights on my old vert for a while so I could use the rear fog light).

 

yes

 

THNX guys, you helped me out alot! The vert plate piece looks good with S4 tails IMO, but not so good with S5... Since I wanted to return to S5 anyways (now got S4 tails in S5), I think I'll get a complete set of USDM or JDM S5 tails...

THNX,

Riz.

 

So much mis-information in here.

Ok here are the main differences and the reason why JDM tails are filled with awesomenessticity.

1: They have pure JDM dirt in some of the empty spaces and holes!
2: They have JDM battle wounds and scratches from late night touge battles and wangan blasts.
3: And this is the rarest of all but for those lucky few some of them even had JDM bugs hiding away in them or burried under the rubber seals.

I can sell any of the above JDM treatments at a measley 20 dollars a set! That is to say you ship me your tail lights I will dirty them and with JDM dirt, scratch them up against a AE86 or GTR or whatever you prefer, and even catch some JDM beasties and tape them inside the housings.

OK ok sorry for the long joke but if you do decide you want some S5 FC tails (yes jdm) feel free to PM me, as I have a couple sets.

 

HaHa! PM sent...

 

Wrong post

 

My 93 touring came with R12 but once that became unavailable I was able to run R134a in my stock system without any issues. The charge oil is different but other than that I have not had any issues. I know the o-rings are make of a different material and I did change those out in 2020 when I was pulling my dashboard to replace my leaking heater core. But I had no problems running it before that.