Olsen's Tours and Training Blog

The wet season has meant a late start to our touring season, and a tough year financially, but with only a few weeks to go before we start our touring season, I am catching up on some overdue maintenance. There are some major things to be done, but I can’t begin those until Justine’s car returns from the mechanic – it has had a clutch replacement.

So today I spent some time fixing things that wouldn’t require the Patrol to be un-driveable.

Both headlights were in need of replacement having been damaged by rocks, and also being in pretty poor shape overall with the adjustment seized. The corner lights were also quite crazed and coloured and the retainer fittings were no longer holding them in place- oh you have to love the corrugations on the Canning Stock Route!

I began by removing the grill and then the corner lights, and then the headlights. I purchased corner lights off ebay at $98 a pair, and headlights from Cheapa Auto Spares at $500 a pair. Nissan wanted over $1000 a pair for the headlights alone.

Fitting the headlights was a breeze but in doing so, I noticed the moulding panels under the headlights were in need of replacement. Nissan wanted over $390 for these little pieces of plastic. I found some on the net for $88 a pair and ordered them, so they’ll be a few days away.

Headlights come well packaged from Cheapa Auto Spares

Brand new headlight

Brand new corner light

Old headlight

Old corner light