sendarius

This picture is from a car that I did NOT buy.
What IS that button next to the hatch release?

AO

Headlight adjuster.

Stinaris

Sorry to tramp, but what's the button on the passenger side.
Mine seems to do nothing?

Cheburator

Opens the boot, but I think you need to have the driver's door open to activate it. At least that's the way it works on my RHD '84 S2 5spd and LHD '90 GT-R

fabric

Yes, the door needs to be open for the hatch release to work. I'm not actually sure if which door matters - I think as along as *a* door is open, you can release the hatch from either side.

JHowell37

The one NEXT TO THE hatch release is the fader for the stereo that was outdated when it was introduced.

Hilton

The fader control is only on the early cars.

On the S4's and onwards the **** by the hatch release its a headlight adjuster that tilts the lights up/down slightly to compensate for heavy loads in the back of the car.

Its a hydraulic system up to '89 and electric motors from 90 onwards.

I think in US cars it had to be disabled to meet federalization rules? I know Euro cars going to the US had to have it disabled.

Sendarius - your car may have had it put in during its life in Japan? Your **** looks like the electric one to me (unless my hydraulic one is just missing some position markings on its dial due to age).

atb

Sendarius, if you do buy a car that is 90 or newer with the switch, I will buy it (the switch, not the car) off you.

Ian928

I wonder why it's not legal to have this feature in the US? Is it a bad ting to be able to adjust the headlight so you don't bother oncoming traffic? And to think it is so illegal you have to remove the whole system from your car when importing it!

Well well, we have strict/stupid laws also... For many years it was illegal for Norwegian cars to have side marking lights. American cars had to have their lights painted over by the importers. But a couple of years ago Volvo started to advertise them as a safety feature, and suddenly the law was changed!

Randy V

The reason is that the euro (ROW) versions use the H4 headlight that has a much sharper beam cutoff and thus the need for the headlight adjustment.

When ROW cars are imported to the US, the headlights are replaced with H5s and the adjusters disabled.

fabric

I'm pretty sure all the new cars with xenon lights are self leveling in the US. That seems to be the way to go. I wouldn't rely on most US drivers to get a manual height adjustment right on their cars anyway.

jheis

It is because until fairly recently, under our antiquated lighting reg's, the only "legal" headlights were sealed beams. Took the US about 30 years to catch up with the rest of the world.
James

davek9

"I wouldn't rely on most US drivers to get a manual height adjustment right on their cars anyway."

+1

Nicole

From what I hear, those headlight adjusters are a constant source of trouble on the European 928s. We can almost consider ourselves lucky we don't have them...

largecar379

agree with Nicole----

everything I have read as well says the (hydraulic) adjusters were useless after a year or so......even after you fixed them.

can't say about the electric ones though?

I have the hydraulics on my 80 Euro. Don't think I'll waste the time or money to fix them.

---Russ