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Originally Posted by BudVlad
The car conversion to European standards is theoretically simple. That’s what I thought but it took lots of running around and lots of hustle. The question is if it’s worthy. Last year I was thinking of bringing another car from Canada but with the experience I had I decided to by the car locally.
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Well from my point of view, I bought a fully specced out 2008 335i in the US. It cost me around 50k USD. I shipped it here and that cost around 1500 EUR. I got the conversion and TUV approval by a specialist firm and that cost me I think just under 900EUR. Now ok, I do still have my US spec adaptive xenons - the conversion guy got that by the TUV and saved me a packet(advantage of having a specialist take care of it all). And ok, my BMW assist doesn't work, which i expected and my RTTI isn't working, which i didn't expect. BUT....
In all, I bought the car in the US when the exchange rate was close to 1 EUR = 1.50 USD. So I have a fully specced out 335i for under 40k EUR that if I was to buy here, it would cost me over 80k EUR. Is BMW assist and RTTI worth 40k EUR??? I think not.