Euro to USA
 

Hello Folks,

General question which hopefully someone can answer. If I purchased a LH Euro car and shipped it to the USA, will it pass emissions? From what I have read, its a pain to get a euro car shipped to the states.... No tax but a bunch of red tape.... Has anyone research this or even tried it??

Thank you for your comments in advance....

GeorgeM

I thought CsL was not legal in US. You will have to wait until it becomes legal which iirc is 25 years from manufacture (blimey CSL prices will rocket in 2028 - reminder is in my diary.

http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/02/14/im...united-states/

Just curious, is there an exhaust kit that can change out to make it pass US emissions.....? I would assume the US sold units have replacement parts that would drop in.... Sounds like a hassle but worth it on a low mileage car....

I guess it depends on which State, but the US exhaust has the cats closer to the manifold for emission compliance, so combined with these and a tweak of the ECU, I'm sure a good tuner can get it to pass, as you are getting cars retrofitted with CSL parts to pass okay?

Makes no difference.....its not legal, not crash tested, not legal........exhaust is irrelevant iirc

Maybe convince the powers that be that it is a "Substantially Similar" car to the standard M3 (perhaps even putting standard M3 parts on to get it to pass)?

I think BMW might have tried that!

Yet according to Cutters & Pistonheads they are the same car.

But they are. They said so :clown:

And that's why we are clever and they are all plebs ......... billy and Yanto aside :)