Hi folks,
Long time lurker in this forum and recently moved to Europe from my home country Virginia, USA. Wife insisted on bringing the zed over, with less then 17K miles, I agreed. I dealt with EU and French import regulations. I did all of the paper work and technical mods, but still have few mods that I need to complete on permanent basis. Paris is known for city of love, locals refer to it as city of strikes - I finally got my tags after 9 months !!!
My plan is to do the following this month.
1) Enable rear fog lights - this is done
2) Get rid of the run-flats - done - put on Michelen pilot sport
3) Change the front corner parking lights to white from orange - I coded it out to pass customs technical control (they have to be off
or white) Finding the location to replace them took me long time - no you don't need to take the bumper off.
4) Paint rear bumper sidemarker light lenses black and code out the light bulb (only US spec cars have this)
5) Retro-fit power folding mirrors and code per his/her key - not required but it's a must have where I live now. Getting in/out of the
building garage is like doing night traps on a carrier !
6) Address the infamous sticky steering
7) Test the DSC wheel sensors and/or the module - yup orange brake/DSC light in the dash
The picture is where I picked up my car from customs in Le Havre. 2005 E85 3.0i 6sp manual....Looking forward to meeting my European side friends.
Long time lurker in this forum and recently moved to Europe from my home country Virginia, USA. Wife insisted on bringing the zed over, with less then 17K miles, I agreed. I dealt with EU and French import regulations. I did all of the paper work and technical mods, but still have few mods that I need to complete on permanent basis. Paris is known for city of love, locals refer to it as city of strikes - I finally got my tags after 9 months !!!
My plan is to do the following this month.
1) Enable rear fog lights - this is done
2) Get rid of the run-flats - done - put on Michelen pilot sport
3) Change the front corner parking lights to white from orange - I coded it out to pass customs technical control (they have to be off
or white) Finding the location to replace them took me long time - no you don't need to take the bumper off.
4) Paint rear bumper sidemarker light lenses black and code out the light bulb (only US spec cars have this)
5) Retro-fit power folding mirrors and code per his/her key - not required but it's a must have where I live now. Getting in/out of the
building garage is like doing night traps on a carrier !
6) Address the infamous sticky steering
7) Test the DSC wheel sensors and/or the module - yup orange brake/DSC light in the dash
The picture is where I picked up my car from customs in Le Havre. 2005 E85 3.0i 6sp manual....Looking forward to meeting my European side friends.
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