Used S13, S14, S15 and 180SX Headlights From Japan: Prices (2026)

Yes, you can still buy genuine Nissan headlights for an S13, S14, S15 or 180SX from Japan, but almost all of them are used, sold one side at a time, and sold as-is. Sold prices observed on Yahoo! Auctions Japan between 19 April and 14 October 2026 (235 complete factory units out of 608 listings read): S15 HID pairs ¥20,000 to ¥120,000, S15 halogen pairs ¥24,200 to ¥102,000, S14 pairs ¥10,500 to ¥100,000, S13 square-lamp pairs ¥35,000 to ¥180,000, and 180SX pop-up pairs ¥40,000 to ¥209,980. Everything here was checked on 15 Oct 2026; dollar figures use ¥160 to $1.

Whether Nissan still supplies any of these new is not confirmed on an official page as of that date, and the discontinued OEM parts guide explains why no factory reproduction programme covers the S-chassis. The used market below is the market.

What do used genuine S-chassis headlights sell for in Japan?

These are closed (sold) listings, not asking prices. We dropped brackets, harnesses, bulbs, covers, aftermarket units, repainted or modified units, and the Suzuki Hustler lamps whose part numbers happen to contain “59S14”. Where a seller wrote ジャンク (janku, junk) or 現状品 (genjōhin, sold as-is) the sale still counts, because that is what you will be bidding against.

Three things jump out. The S13 square lamp, the plainest of the lot, is now the dearest: near-new pairs went for ¥246,000 (72 bids) and ¥260,000 (52 bids). The two S14 kouki pairs above ¥80,000 were the HID projector version. And on the S15, the one store that quotes Nissan part numbers sold late Spec-R HID pairs (26010-85F29 right, 26060-85F29 left) at a fixed ¥220,000 four times between July and October, singles at ¥111,940, and halogen pairs quoting 26010-85F27 and 26060-85F27 at ¥143,000. Those titles do not say new or used, and we could not open a public parts catalogue page for the numbers on 15 Oct 2026, so treat them as listing claims until a dealer confirms them. A seller-described new halogen pair sold at open auction for ¥149,000 after 19 bids.

How do you tell a genuine unit from a replica in the listing?

The word 純正 (junsei, genuine) is in every title above, and also in the titles of converter harnesses, repair lenses and FRP covers, because sellers use it as a search keyword. Read past it.

ORIGIN Labo.’s Combat Eye is the opposite case: a new FRP panel that replaces the headlight outright and is sold as such. If the car will run covers anyway, the Combat Eye guide and the S15 ORIGIN Labo. catalogue are the cheaper route. If you want working factory lights back, there is no new part to order, which is why the table above exists. For the rest of the listing vocabulary, use how to read Yahoo! Auctions drift parts listings.

What do 180SX pop-up listings actually include?

The 180SX is where the title decides what arrives. The complete retractable unit is the housing (the frame that rises), the motor and link rod behind it, and the square halogen insert in front. Of the 12 pairs we counted, 9 titles said モーター付き (motor included), モーター動作OK or 動作確認済 / 実働 (confirmed working, removed from a running car); the 12 together were the ¥40,000 to ¥209,980 sales. The IKI 1113 inserts alone sold for ¥1,500 to ¥5,500 a pair, new genuine link rods for ¥23,000 to ¥24,000 a pair, and one seller listed a new right-hand housing as 廃番 (haiban, discontinued) at ¥38,000, which is a seller’s claim and not Nissan’s.

So a “180SX headlight” at ¥5,000 is an insert, a ¥20,000 one is a junk side or a bare housing, and ¥80,000 to ¥85,000 is what four complete pairs went for between August and October, three of them described as working.

Where does a ¥100,000 pair get broken?

Here is the step that ruins headlight buys, and it is not the bidding. The seller writes 現状品 (sold as-is) and ノークレーム・ノーリターン (no claims, no returns), photographs the lens face and not the back, and ships the unit domestically in a reused carton. A proxy service receives that carton, weighs it, often re-packs it into a consolidated box with whatever else you bought, and books EMS. Nobody in that chain checks the plastic mounting tabs, a crack on the rear of the housing (one S15 seller wrote 裏側に割れ、欠け, cracked and chipped on the back, and sold the side for ¥10,000), or whether a 180SX motor still cycles. The first person to look is you, two weeks later, holding a unit that cannot be returned.

Can a headlight pair go by EMS, and how should it be packed?

By size, yes. Japan Post’s English EMS limits page, checked 15 Oct 2026, allows 1.5 m maximum length and 30 kg to the United States (length plus circumference 2.75 m), the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand (3 m), but only 1.05 m and 20 kg to Australia and 1.05 m and 30 kg to Germany. No S-chassis headlight is near those limits; a boxed pair is a light, bulky parcel, which is where courier volumetric pricing can beat EMS. The comparison is in EMS vs courier for drift parts.

The line that matters is on Japan Post’s own how-to page: Fragile and This Side Up handling are not available on overseas shipments, and the advice is double packaging. In practice that means one rigid box per side, the lens face padded, the tab and plug side filled so nothing can rotate, then both boxes inside a second carton with the gap filled. If the parcel still arrives cracked, the claim runs from the Japanese end, so read damaged or wrong parts from Japan before you pay rather than after.

A used factory headlight from Japan is a good buy when it is the right unit, inspected from behind, and boxed twice. Most of the ones that arrive cracked skipped the second and third steps.