chrome headlight covers for sale

[Z-point]

who's got money enough?

for sale chrome headlight covers

[Zrush]

I've always loved those, but I don't love 'em enough to pay $600.00 for them. The guy that did all the polished stainless under our hood could fabricate those for less than half the price. I kinda thought they made a Z look like it was wearing a pair of glasses anyway

Vicky

[26th-Z]

Old news, Guus. Eric has had those for sale for quite some time. Watch who you are calling four-eyes, Vicky:finger:

[Bleach]

I wonder if they really are NLA. A guy in my Z club bought those just 2 years ago from Nissan for $120 each.

[2ManyZs]

Yup, they are now NLA as far as I know. I also bought a set about 2 years ago for about 120 each, and within a year the supply dried up and disappeared.:disappoin

FWIW, Erik's prices are a bit "optimistic" to say the least on some of his items. I've seen him list early FSM's for 250 bucks, while they are still available from another source for 75 bucks each.:cross-eye

[Bambikiller240]

Two or Three years ago you could buy OEM Gloveboxes for 240Z's also. Can't do that anymore either.

[lordbiotree]

WHats happening to all of our parts? Is it the fact that all the old parts left on dealers shelves are slowly drying up? Has Nissan just quit supplying the parts?

[2ManyZs]

Both......

Nissan has sold off most if not all of the inventory of old NOS parts for everything from the mid 80's on back. Without Nissan's money, the OEM suppliers won't continue to make the parts.

[1GENZED]

Thats why I feel envious for the American or British classic car Industry.

Man I wish Nissan/ Toyota/Mazda/Honda would have as much pride and responsibility, as Ford GM or even chrysler to maintian their heritage.

The Classic Japanese car niche in my opinion will never attain the recognition or respect it deserves for being a true classic, until an industry is established. No one wants to go hunting around for parts that don't exist or are priced well beyond there true value.

Come on Nissan back your heritage up.

unless Nissan steps up and takes responsibility and invests in NOS parts. The zed will be just another car that is a "sort of classic" That cost way to much for the amount of recognition it gets.

It would be awsome if all the Major Japanese car manufacturers

got together and started a common heritage product line.

What if Nissan brought back there NOS parts under the Datsun brand.

[2ManyZs]

Hopefully someone at Nissan will receive the "cranial-rectal inversion" that will allow them to see the lost revenues.

When I worked for a GM contractor, someone at GM saw the light. For years, GM dealers couldn't return many parts that were for the older vehicles and had to sit on them or junk them themselves. Someone finally realized that these were the same parts that businesses such as Year One etc were buying up for pennies on the dollar from dealers and making a big profit.

Hopefully someone will see that at Nissan and stop selling off their inventory of NOS parts, but for now, I guess it's up to us to buy up what we can and hoard the parts ourselves.:devious:

[EScanlon]

Quirky economic law in action. No demand equals no production for sale.

While many of us are looking for and buyiing NOS parts, there are many vendors who have painfully obtained reproductions or very close to identical substitutes. The problem then becomes that the "fear" factor of buying non-OEM parts sets in, and people don't buy it, or expect to get it for a fraction of what it's worth.

If someone were to begin manufacturing the Chrome HL Covers they would hope to gain back their investment in time, materials and hopefully make a profit. But what happens? The manufacturer is hoping to catch onto some of those $600 / set sales, but the buyers want them back at the OLD OEM price of $120 each or LESS. At that price it may take as many as 200 sales before the books are balanced.

Many of those original OEM prices were based on a large markup of course, but also on the massive numbers that they were buying in order to outfit the original car. So although the price as a replacement part may be 2 times what it's worth it nevertheless is 5 times cheaper than when they are manufactured 10 at a time.

Competitive pricing doesn't step in until there is more than ONE manufacturer making them.

Nissan isn't going to be interested in maintaining an inventory of parts for older cars, their interest is in selling NEW cars. They'll maintain a parts inventory for those vehicles that are deemed "current" or no older than ...

More popular models (based on their measure of popularity = TOTAL NUMBER SOLD) will have their inventories retained longer, but as their number dwindle due to age and rust, there is less and less reason to maintain an inventory.

It is the aftermarket provider that we must turn to. Remember how popular the Model T was? Well you can still find parts, but not OEM parts. Same with many other vehicles. Yes, there are some items that are used in various models, and those will be the ones that will be produced first, as well as retained longer by the car manufacturer. But when it comes to the specialized, hard to find, very limited number parts, then you either pay the price now, or hope that others do so and you can buy it later, hopefully for not too much more.

2¢

Enrique

[1GENZED]

I guess your right

from what I know some of the british car tooling for components were bought over by individuals as scrap and production was resumed.

Do you guys know if the tooling is still around for the zed car.

Most of the components look like they were made by Hitachi.

I was just wondering but are zed parts more widely available in Japan then they are here in North America or Australia. Is there a better network of zed parts retailers there then there are here.

Ahmed