>you can't swap engines in Czech Republic WHAT THE FUCK

>>17684024

Here in Spain we can, but you have to pay like 500€ for a professional to approve of it. Europe was a mistake.

>want to swap engine
>if you want to import it(you most likely will),good luck with the shipping
>then customs
>then getting it registered
>then more paperwork
>then talk to your insurance
>then spend some more useless money
tl;dr just buy 3 ebay turbos

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>can't drive faster than c on the autobahn
>feelsbadman

Poortugal here, same. If you wanna take a nice big fart in your car you gotta pay tax for it and get it inspected to make sure it's no a health hazard. The result is the "tuning" scene here is either people who pay tickets 24/7 and rebuild their car with stock parts every year for our early inspection or people who just rice the fuck out of their car because there's literally nothing else they can do but make it sound like a fartbox.
They're also upping the taxes on imported cars the little shits, no fun allowed ever.

In my country we have shit tons of regulations, but you can just not follow them and bribe the first official that notices

Here in NZ we can mostly do what ever the fuck we want as long as its still drivable and wont explode

>you can't murder people in Czech Republic
WHAT THE FUCK

>>17684028
>Europe was a mistake.
While it is somewhat true, lets take the fact that 75% of EU member countries would literally turn into shitholes similar to drug infested Latin America countries.

>>17684024
I R gonna get a V8 Superb and no one can stop me

>>17684076
>>can't drive faster than c on the autobahn
I bet some freak at RWTH and another freak at TU München are working on it....

Mexico has no rules, if roads were good it would be the best motoring place in the world ):

Victoria Australia
You want to make more power? Get an engineer.
You want to get bigger brakes? Get an engineer.
You want to put coilovers in? Get an engineer.
You want to change the wheels? Get an engineer.

>>17684160
>You want to change the wheels? Get an engineer.
Even if you just want to change tires?

>>17684177
Consumables like tires, fliters, fluids are fine. Literally everything else must be OEM spec or engineer certified.

>>17684143
>75% of EU member countries would literally turn into shitholes similar to drug infested Latin America countries.

Only southern and eastern state-... countries. Not that EU isn`t turning itself into a shithole, laws, or no laws.

>>17684198
>>17684143

Spain has never been a drug cartel run Mexico-like country before joining the EU. I have no idea what you are on about.

>>17684024
Dutchfag here, laws are fairly reasonable by yurop standards but GOD FUCKING DAMN EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE WHAT THE FUCK

>>17684250
I meant that every average or poor EU country without union would go bankrupt and be empty like Chernobyl.

>>17684285
insurance is expensive as hell
taxes are expensive as hell
fines are expensive as hell
but apart from that our laws are pretty okay
as in, shit like a misfiring system is legal as long as it doesn't produce more noise than 90 dB
that's pretty nice I guess, you can do a lot of shit legally

>>17684577
Yeah, you can get away with a lot and even do so legally as long as you're willing to pay up.

Fucking einzelabnahme desu

>>17684288
Chernobyl was a disaster you fucking mongrel stop speaking

>>17684663
>Chernobyl was a disaster
Do you even read my post? I said WITHOUT EUROPEAN UNION, all Euro countries would be empty just like Chernobyl after disaster. Average and poor euro countries would literally have falling apart economy.

>you can't work on your car unless you own a garage

Pretty sure this is repair shops colluding with the government

>>17684863

But that's bullshit, you are literally making stuff out of your ass. Iceland is not part of the EU and it's doing just fine.

>>17684024
in France you can, but you can't legally insure your car once its engine is swapped

>>17684024
Ireland, heres one of ours:

Cant insure cars over the age of 15, without having been insured on them before they turned that age.
You have to then wait until the car turns at least 20 before you can get classic insurance, but for this you also need a daily driver that is fully insured in your name and cannot use your "classic" as a daily.

This has basically killed any good 90's to early 2000's shitboxes here.

>>17684863
I dont think you should be posting on /o/ in the middle of your meeting mr european minister.
Get back to work turning europe into somalia.

>>17684160
Can you put different but still OEM wheels on it? Like, if it had steelies could you put the optional alloys on it without getting an engineer's certificate?

>>17684898
>But that's bullshit, you are literally making stuff out of your ass
Then explain me where poorer countries would get money from?

>Iceland
>doing fine
How do you know?

>>17684989

>Then explain me where poorer countries would get money from?


By not having their own industry halved to protect the market of economically weaker countries, by not having to care about retarded EU regulations which benefit Germany more than anyone else.


>How do you know?

Iceland economy is well known to be a very stable one, and a success story of it's own. Anyone who actually knew anything about the topic would know.

>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Iceland+economic+status

>>17684143
Found the Brit father whos daughter's being cucked by ahmed

>>17685012
>daughter
>being cucked by ahmed
You mean her boyfriend's taking Ahmed's dick up his ass while she watches?

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>>17685021

>>17684620
How about a shitton of einzelabnahmen vs a fuckin expensive komplettabnahme?

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>insurance is expensive and will cost more than your car

> insurance claim culture, very expensive premiums

>no more normal cars circa 2040 apparently

god save the queen, /o/.

here you can swap engines, at least in older cars with less strict emissions, but you are limited to increasing displacement by 25% and power by 20% (compared to the largest/most powerful car in the model series). this means that if you want to do an LS1 swap, you have to start with something like an S-class Mercedes or an American muscle car.

>Just drive the fucking car without telling anybody you've done an engine swap

Why so hard

>>17685601
This. My state doesn't have any of these bullshit laws, but whenever I read about states that do I wonder how anybody would even find out about that shit anyway. Do cops pop the hood when they pull you over?

>>17685601
>>17685621
Have fun explaining that no, that's totally what the stock engine looks like, to the guy inspecting your car every 1-2 years.

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>mfw I found out it's illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey

>>17684024
swap the car around the engine instead. checkmate, government.

>>17685667
then you'd have a new car with a old/broken engine
um...

>>17684288
Retard alert

Theyd be better off without it. Only benefit they got was free movement and ability to work where you like. Otherwise the EU ruined the economies of Italy, Greece, Spain, you name them. Any country that isnt germany or france was ruined by the euro

>>17684899
Why the FUCK does that make sense to anyone

>>17684929
Oh my god, thats probably the shittest law Ive seen so far. Shit like this makes me despise beaurecracy

>>17685694
>on /o/
>political talk
>pretends to know anything about the EU
>>>>>>ruined the economies of Italy, Greece, Spain
wew
do you even know what the EU is

can you stop posting now before you educated yourself on the topic?
those countries would be way worse without the EU

captcha: Baltic EINFAHRT

>>17685435
Just drive with a dashcam, be careful and dont buy insurance. The insurance Jew has you by the balls

>>17685667
This guy living in 2117

>>17685737
>can't drive without insurance in my country
hurrrr

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25 year importation law

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>>17684143
Spaniard here, the EU stole all of our car liberties with their War on Cars. Now we need to pay lots of taxes from everything, and you need to do a shitton of paperwork and pay lot of money to make most car modifications, you even need to report cosmetic changes like painting your car to your insurance and Technical Vehicle Inspection. And I'm not gonna talk about politics because we are not on /pol/, but the EU really fucked our economy, demographics, and national security.

>>17685754
Jesus. Thats why its so expensive then. People dont realise this well intended shit fucks people

>>17684250
>Spain
>not Mexico-tier

Ur just delusional

>Bulgaria

You can swap... But only if the replacement engine fits all of the below:
>same manufacturer
>same displacement
>same power
>same year or newer

People go around it by just not selling the car. Sometimes swapped cars are sold with a usage contract.

>>17685732
See >>17685780

Because Greece hasnt needed to be bailed out twice and is begging for a thirs, Italy hasnt gone to the dogs due to corrupt officials, high tax and the migrant crisis and isnt on the brink of economic collapse, and Spain hasnt been fucked by a recession that has lasted nearly 10 years. Id go on and post sources but your retard brain would either let it in one ear and out the other because hurr durr the EU is good or just shut it out completely as you scream autistically that the EU was a good thing that united europe. I reckon youd be the same kind of idiot who would consider a successful reich a united europe also. Its a totally failed experiment, and a way for unelected largely socialist officials and career politicians to exact their wills on countries they have no business telling what to do. Theyre like a shittier version if the UN because unfortunately, europe listens to them.

Im sure youre now dragging your Neanderthal-esque knuckles across your desk to type out a half-baked ad-hom reply in beastly, childish anger, which I by the way I will not be reading.

Fuck off back to the bank, Bernstein

>Can swap if its from the same manufacturer
I wonder if on technically you could sneak an LS into an Opel

>>17685866
The Kapitän, Admiral and Diplomat literally had a Chevy 327 option.

>>17684989

Because its a majority nordic country with little to no minorities. Also they fucked up parasitic banksters good.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-simanowitz/iceland-has-jailed-29-bankers_b_8908536.html

>>17684024
Dutchfag, we're not allowed to drive drunk. The FUCK

>>17685877
I was thinking more along the lines of the last Omegas and create a Commodore Hoonmobile in Europe.
But I am too big of a poorfag to get my hands on an LS and our DMV are full of Lawfags with whom arguing is impossible
>NO, IT IS WRITTEN LIKE THAT AND SO IT IS AS SUCH
>But, you see, Opels are made in different factories, and the cars of different brands can also be made side by side. So I ask, what is a manufacturer? An assembly line, a factory, a brand? Or perhaps, it is the parent company of all? And Opel wanted to make a V8 anyway so basically LS is an Opel engi-
>NO, IT IS WRITTEN LIKE THAT AND SO IT IS AS SUCH

>>17684024
>If you want to import a used car, you must dimantle it first parts by parts at importer's country
>also add tax 300%

>>17685923
It'd probably be cheaper to just import a Commodore at that point. Sadly.

>>17684028
And it has to be same make and same year manufactured or newer, stupid as fuck

>>17684024
Land of the free here

Faggots always talk about the US being a shitty kike controlled country, but I and everyone here has the freedom to do almost anything as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others/endanger them.

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>tfw 3rd world

I can do whatever I want

>>17688511
eyy same here. Downside is there's only a single dyno shop in my entire 6 million city.

>>17684159
I know a guy in Guadalajara with 4 Supras
. I'm thinking he's either a drug dealer or stolen .

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>>17688635
don't need to stinky dyno, tune it on the highway

>muh American freedumbs
And
If I moved to America I wouldn't be able to afford anything because your government is one of the only two in the entire world who would tax my money before I declare it as profit

>>17684028
>Europe was a mistake.
Europe hasn't existed since 1918

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>>17688511
>argentina
Can do whatever i want but there is not enough moni to do it

>>17685848
lithuanian here, i hate the EU more than anything
i hate the politicians that ruin this country all of them are ex communist windowlicking drunk idiots. they ate up all the retarded propoganda about EU. yeah it was ok when they gave us some money but now its ugh oh! payback time goy. not even talking about how royally we been fucked energy wise because we had to close one of the most modern and safest nuclear plants in urop because a goy cant have energetic freedom, now we have to buy shit from russia and russia pays germany.
i hate i hate it i hate it. remove jEwU

>>17684024
I think in Croatia you can't do any kind of performance modification, but then again, who's gonna know? The car inspection guys only have a look under the hood like they even know what they are looking at, test your suspension, steering and brakes. Then they check if your power windows and other shit works inside (?). And even if they notice discrepancies, you can always bribe them.

>tfw british
>people shoving YBs and V8s into minis and such for the bants
>absolute madman building a mid engine renault scenic because he liked that old concept F1
>sleepers everywhere, cossie engined royal mail vans, LS engines in MX5s
>all you need is an SVA which is just a box ticking excercise and a new registration

ofc this is all until 2040 when we ban all fun completly and england goes full on Heaven's Gate.

>can't change exhaust without homologation
>can't ride motorcycles with more power than 35 kW until you're 24 or have been riding motorcycles for 2 years (I wouldn't mind this one if the limit was a little higher, since I know several great bikes with 37 kW that I can't ride)
>have to carry first aid (which has an expiration date) kit all the time (I understand the thinking behind this one, but in practice it doesn't help anyone)

>>17685844
>same displacement
>same power
did they really expect бaй гaньo to give a shit about that lol

>>17688511
i am a turd worlder and i have kind of this >>17685933 law

what's your argument?

>>17689495
just give the inspector a $5 and go your way

>>17684024
> Be NZ
> Fuck all rules
> Cunts in hot rods with rebar engine mounts
> Hot rodders cars start breaking causing damage
> Rules put in place

Man, born like 30 years too late, fucken hot rodders ruining it

>>17689318
si to ti, janez?

Fairly sure you cannot do an engine swap if the new engine has over 40% more power than the older one.

>>17684929
Man about a few months ago heard a radio debate. Some fella from the capital said "look how good the fellas in Hungary did. They banned old cars (>10 years or so can't remember) from entering certain cities unless you pay a tax that allows you to go with it for X ammount of time". God I hate public transport shills.

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>>17684024
You can't swap engine either in France and a new law has been voted which will pass in 2018 :

> Cars built before 2000 will be almost forbidden on the streets

> You'll have to pass a check-up every 6 months for a car built before 2000, every 2 years after (composed of 450 different points and costing around 90 to 150€)

> Changing parts will become illegal and if you get caught your car gets confiscated + a salty fine

Which means you'll have to change parts at your constructor's garage and they have to change them, you can't do it on your own

My country is OK but I'm really thinking about moving out because of these laws

>>17689517
it's become hard time by time...........
don't forget you need to arrange the legality too

>>17684028
It's like that in Australia too
>>17688017
Wait, what? We only have to get it approved if the car didn't have that engine as an option. So swapping in higher trim/turbo engines requires no government approval.

>>17689555
might as well wait another few months for those cheap honhon shitboxes, you can come over if you want but please don't vote to make shit worse than it already is
>t. neighbor with slow af bureaucracy

>>17689555
>shit drivers
>kebabs roaming the streets
>these laws
Just run away

>>17689555
This sounds bad.

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>>17684106

To develop on this, any imported car no matter the age has to pay taxes as if it was a new one, and on swaps you have to cover the tax for the displacement increase, again as a new car, adding to all the legalizing bullshit on swapping it. I think I even told the story once here, a friend of mine was building a Mitsubishi Colt Gti replica out of a 1.3, he gave up halfway because for the increase to a 1.8 they wanted him to pay, and brace yourselves because your body is not ready, 7500€. That's right, seventy five fucking hundred euros.

>>17684024
What about EV conversions?

>>17689555
>France bans/limits cars built before 2000
>Prices of cars built before 2000 will drop down like rock in France
>Even with the prices down, most of cars will be exported, because no one will buy them inside France
>tfw MASS export to eastern europe
Actually feels good, man. Finally I'll be able to buy good old shitboxes and comfy premiums for quite less cash.

>>17689555
>literally illegal to work on your own car
>no cars before the year 2000
It would be easy to make a "lol muh yurop" joke, but...

Damn. That's actually really sad. Sorry man.

>>17684024
You can't change your wheels to something bigger without asking for approval (and paying) in Portugal.

>>17689846
>You can't change your wheels to something bigger

Or smaller. Any tyre size not listed on the car's registration cannot go in, period. And having to get written permission from the fucking manufacturer for any extra size is the icing on it.

imported cars here are taxed to SHIT so they could "protect" and "encourage growth" of our national, totally not localized Mitsubishis that's half the quality and reliability with ridiculous pricing. it's been going on since the 80s which makes little sense to maintain it today

>>17685725
Its not really a "law".
Its the insurance companies acting rouge without the government regulating them.

>>17689555
>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-bans-vehicles-registerd-before-2000-fight-city-air-pollution-france-emission-reducing-a7542921.html
what the fuck
>get your A grade sticker goy
what's stopping me from flooring it in 1st gear in my 4L/100km ecobox constantly

>>17689642
>7500 euro for a 1.8 litre shitbox swap.

Wow, America is fucked, but we're not that fucked.

>burger here

Why does it always seem like Europe hates freedom?

>>17694426
Don't make that mistake, Europe loves freedom and the EU pretends to love freedom while it takes it away to ensure diversity and multiculti while eco-lobbyists talk them over into all sorts of bullshit like electric cars.

The EU doesn't seem to care much for the European.

>>17694515
That no ICE law is gonna backfire for Europe.

They make the same mistake as people did in the 60s who watched the Jetsons and really thought moving sidewalks and robot maids and flying cars was gonna happen.

Star Wars made this expectation even worst.

>>17684577
The RDW (equivalent of US DMV) inspection fetishism is so annoying

Registration says it seats 5? Gotta get it reinspected for 600 euros if you rip out the back seats
Want to convert a 50cc 2smoke to electric for the lulz? Gotta get it inspected for nightmare-inducing prices
Want to do an engine swap with the same fucking engine but with 16 valves instead of 8? Inspection motherfucker
The list goes on and on. I'm actually very surprised there's no inspection attached to changing a vehicle's color.

Also, fuck the co2 tax. Jesus fug it's expensive. I'll wait with buying a non-shitbox untill I move away from New Arabi- ehh Europe

>>17684024
40kmh (25mph) over is an auto impound

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>>17689555
>it's real
What the fuck, France? What is going on with you and cars?

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>>17689555
AAAYYYYYY
t b h pham it sounds like dudeweedcity and rotterdam.

Pic related, rotterdam
>NOOO YOU CANNOT HAVE A DIESEL FROM BEFORE 2002
>THINK OF THE CHILDREN YOU BAD FILTHY GOY
>CARS ARE THE CANCER AND THAT MAKES YOU CANCER TOO

>meanwhile a cruiseship having it's engine idling for 3 days straight blowing out pic related's smoke is perfectly acceptable.

Europe, not even once

>Live in Bongland
>Import Japanese/American engine, only have to pay VAT (20% on purchase price)
>Drove engine into any car
>Phone up DVLA
>Tell them "Hey I put engine 00000x0x000x000 into chassic xxxxx00x0x0x00x00"
>Pay £25 and they send you a new rego document
>Car is now 100% legal to use on roads, assuming your insurance knows about the engine swap

And people think we have bad car laws! We're second only to America in legality of dumb shit.

>>17689555
You forgot the whole having to buy and bring your own sealed breathlyzer test with you, or did they stop that?

Jesus that was a clusterfuck

>>17689555
Any sources?

>>17685782
You can't drive without insurance in the US and my rates are pretty reasonable.

AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN
WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE

>>17695727
France hates cars and since new government is pro europe, they'll blindly follow anything they will suggest.
Driving in France makes you angry because of all the dumb things they made to fuck your journey/commute.
>>speedtraps everywhere, so many different ways to catch you doing 6 qbove
>>stupid desynchronized red lights to make you stop and go multiple times instead of keeping the same pace and get all green
>>fucking speedbumps sometimes barely legal due to height or incline
>>and a lot of stupid drivers who know shit on how to get in a roundabout (thank god there isn't 4 ways stop, that would be a massacre)
>>roads poorly maintained and lights turned off on freeway to "save on power" and "keep drivers alert"
>>numerous taxes and fucking pricey petrol

I hate this country for many things, but this really piss me off

>>17685674
no, you get the new engine and keep it stationary, then swap around it. easy.

>>17695265
The Randstad is basically our Commiefornia though.

>>17695788
I'm Dutch but I sometimes go to France with my parents for the summer vacation. What amazed me was how Paris seemed to have traffic jams all the time. We were there at 03:15 in the night and we STILL were stuck in traffic.

One upside (I think?) is that cyclists in France aren't protected by law like ours

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This paint job is a felony in Florida:

>>17695863
How is that even possible?

>>17695837
>Stuck in traffic because cyclists now all drive cars due to laws
>At least I'm not held up by cyclists

>>17695863
>This paint job is a felony in Florida:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1067596625959808540&q=Van+Teamer+v.+State,&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48&as_vis=1

>man gets pulled over in green chevey
>tags say's it blue
>i just had i painted
>wait is that pot
>now changing the color of your car is reason to be stopped

and other shit

>>17695893
wewest of lads

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>>17695876
Why wouldn't cyclists just get scooters and scootercycles?

They're all about being minimalist and saving on gas.

>>17695905
That stuff requires a license. Bikes don't.

>>17695909
If they didn't, it wouldn't make a difference

>be in US
>the point of a license is to prove that you know the laws, mostly. actually knowing how to operate your vehicle is pretty much optional.
>nobody follows the laws
>cyclists: lane splitting is illegal LETS DO IT ANYWAYS you can't go muh law you were going 15 over the speed limit and changing lanes without blinkers stay btfo cagers
>car drivers: 5-15 over the limit at all times, no signaling, tailgating, running over cyclists

Remember no matter how fucked you have it, you are not australia.

Cons:
>A guy who did 3 burnouts got more jail time than a refugee who raped a child in a park and beat her half to death
>The general public considers you worse than a pedophile for having a modded car
>Cops have obscene powers to declare you guilty until proven

Pros:

>None of this is enforced outside of main cities and towns
>Great car culture
>Lots of great roads outside the city

Just be careful never to do anything in the city here. You will get treated worse than if you raped a grandma.

Latvia. Can't register RHD cars here. Only LHD is allowed. Can't pass the inspection with a rollcage, gutten interior, etc. Rebuild to LHD must use the LHD factory parts. (So cars with no LHD versions are a nogo.) Basically no fun allowed. Fuck this shithole ay

>>17684160
>get engineering degree
>certify all your own ridiculous mods
>>>>>>>Software Engineer :{DDDD

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>UK
No side exit exhausts

>>17695863
Do you have gay police.

" those colours, on that car, OMG I'll have to fine you you bitch"

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>>17695875
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=321.02&URL=0300-0399/0321/Sections/0321.03.html

Literally anything black with a tan top is illegal in Florida and they slap you with "Impersonating a cop" for it.

Does pic related look like a cop to you?

>UK

No, snow chains, doesn't bother me, might bother the Scots in the Highlands.

>>17695949
side exits are legal as along as they exit behind the front wheels AKA no FWD drag cars with a pipe coming out of the front bumper.

here in germany you can barely do anything. i dont actually know anything about car laws here though because you need minimum 5k€ to get your license+first shitbox

>>17695905
the reason people ride bicycles if because you can buy a good used one for 100€ (or just steal one like any sane person). the "saving on gas" or "environment aware" people are just too poor for a car, it's excuses. the "minimalist" option is a skateboard

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Germany:

Vehicle inspections (TÜV).
Every vehicle part either
*has to be the OEM part
*requires that the manufacturer of the part had experts create a safety&emissions assessment (not feasible for small manufacturers or for parts with little production volume)
*requires that you have an inspector do the assessment (expensive).
And "every" means everything. Not just engine, exhaust or other emissions-related equipment but also things like mirrors, headlights, fenders, bumpers, seats, installing a brodie knob (!), installing wind deflectors (!!) or changing the bulbs that illuminate the license plate from incandescent to LED (!!!).
You can only install things like cellphone mounts.
And the emission standards are harsh and include noise "pollution", so no fart cans.
As soon as you use a part that isn't legal the whole vehicle stops being legal. That means the police can impound it and if you have an accident the insurance can refuse to pay out, even if the part wasn't related to the accident at all.

Also dashcams are illegal.

On the other hand... pic related.

>>17696521
>Also dashcams are illegal.
What the hell, what is the reasoning behind this?

>>17696550
Probably something about privacy.

t. not German

>>17696550
>>17696553
Yes, privacy.
In the US you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.
Not all countries follow that prinicple.

Here is the law in english (§6b): https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bdsg.html#p0153

>>17696553
>>17696582
Might as well ban smartphones and tablets too because they can record audio and video in public as well

>>17696593
>Might as well ban smartphones and tablets too
This would be nice, to be desu.

>>17696593
You're allowed to have a dashcam in your car, you just can't "monitor publicly accessible areas" which means you can't have it recording all the time or automatically.
Same with cellphones, you can't record all the time.

By the way, devices that are used to defeat traffic control like a radar detector or an app with a speed camera database are also illegal (75€ fine and 1 demerit point just for having and not using them).

>>17696616
>or an app with a speed camera database
how are they even going to find out about the apps downloaded on your phone?

>>17696550
Only the government is allowed to record people without their consent :^)

>>17696632
It's hard to enforce. So I guess it's a
>>17684024
>stupid law
?

>>17696616
Once a court in Germany ruled that automatic overwriting of film material after x minutes is sufficient for filming legally.

here in California, engine swaps are only allowed if they are another engine of the same car (due to smog laws). ofcourse no one gives a fuck and just takes their cars to be smogged at shady chinese shops

>>17696593
It's about the intended use of said electronics

>>17696521
>include noise "pollution"
Tatsächlich gut, weil Deutschland eine einzige riesige Legebatterie mit viel zu hoher Einwohnerdichte ist und Lärm hier wirklich überall nervt.

>>17696582
The dashcam is not illegal, but you're not allowed to share the videos with anyone.

Video = good
Video on youtube = bad

>>17684024
>Austria
>Additional tax on engine power
>200 HP are almost € 100 a month in addition to all other taxes and insurance
>Another additional tax on new cars based on the cars value including extras
>Results in cars being 25% more expensive than in Germany

Cucked beyond believe

>>17696689
>viel zu hohe Einwohnerdichte
Ist generell einer der größten Gründe warum dieses Land so scheiße ist. Alles muss vom Nanny-staat totreguliert oder verboten werden, es könnte ja andere Leute beeinträchtigen.

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Meanwhile:
I can change anything on my car whenever I want.
Yearly inspection costs around 25$ and consists of:
-Checking wear of suspension and brake system
-Checking if rust doesn't make it dangerous to drive
-Checking if headlights works properly
Highest speed limits on highways in EU (140kmh)
High emission? Pfft, just let me take my 30yo old Diesel and floor in the middle of capital city.
CB Radio, Dashcam? Sure, why not
No displacement tax, maybe bigger cost of insurance, that's all.
Oh, and cheapest twingo costs around 200$

>>17696996
Slavland is where cars go to die, 90% of the cars on the road would have to be scrapped if the inspection was actually meaningful.
And if you want to swap a car legally you have to have it done by a certified workshop and then go through a whole bunch of legal hoops and pay a 200% premium on your insurance forever.

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>>17684076
>he doesn't convert his car to pure energy to bypass the mass threshold
Did you just get your license or something?

>>17696521
>not being a rebel and doing it anyways
There's going to be a golden age in the underground German automotive scene when the refugees become such a problem that the cops can't enforce public order. It's already happening on French highways.

>>17697435
Yeah, because there are no new cars there, only one big junkyard of Europe.
About the law, not really. If you don't have engine number in Proof of registration, you can ride with swapped engine, as long as Police won't notice V8 in your Golf. If you want it 100% legal, you swap, you go with purchase agreement or invoice to Vehicle control station. Then you go to communications department, show them papers, pay 30$ for new fixed papers, and enjoy your LS1 legally. And insurance costs are such dumb thing (you could probably get 40$ cheaper insurance if you just move to other part of the city.) that I just leave it.

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>>17695167
France is Autophobic desu

We used to have a wonderful country back in the 70-80-90's when it came to cars, no speed limit, no speed-bumps, no speed-traps etc.

We also have the worst taxes when it comes to cars, everything is made to make you buy the shittiest shitbox you can

There's a whole fiscal horsepower thing going on, my Miata has 9 Fiscal Horsepower, had to pay 200€ just to renew its papers with my name on it. (And it's even worse in some departments)

And I'm not even talking about bikes... you can't drive a 1000cc before you're 22 and you'll have to get 3 different licenses until you get the right to drive it

Cruising for the sake of cruising is illegal too, if you get arrested and you say that you just drive around it might get you arrested

Wheelings and drifting could get your bike/car confiscated

You can get a fine for listening to loud music or smoking while driving

The government is paying subsidiaries for driving cars equiped with speed-traps (there's actually 420 cars of this type roaming our roads right now)

It's a living hell and it keeps getting worse, add to it immigrants, muslims, gypsies and you get the pinnacle of torment for any honest citizen

Had to get off my miata to fight off a migrant who was trying to touch me at a red light. You just can't relax

>>17697980
I really can't tell if you're joking

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>>17698035
Wish I was

Holy shit you guys, holy fucking shit. You guys just take that shit laying down? All those legislations and regulations? This is fucking staggering, I had no idea that the breadth of vehicle laws was so excessive in European countries. I know it's a meme and all but seriously how can you defend this? How is there even one person who could argue that Europe isn't an irredeemable shitcan for car owners? Holy shit it doesn't stop at car ownerships does it? Are there laws regulating how you wipe your own ass too? For fucks sake, fiscal horsepower? What the fuck man I'm horrified. In my state you just drive when you turn 16, the license test is mostly just a tongue in cheek show, they will readily give you the answers to that shit or tell you what to do so you can pass. No emissions tests, no tests at all, if it has at least 2 wheels and 2 headlights then it's good.

I'm not even that patriotic but goddamn am I happy to be American today

>>17698064
It's seriously illegal to just go out for a cruise if you don't have a destination in mind? Like a written law, in a French law book, that the police really enforce?

>>17698110
Now you know how Euros feel about American healthcare

>>17696996
however:
-you can't register a kit-car unless it complies with euro 5
-there's may be no "displacement tax",but there's a tax (~20%) if you buy anything new over 2000cc
-cops are completely anal about any visual mods
-socialist government that would extract metals from sewage if it would be possible

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holy fuck, both americans and europeans are fucking cucked

so happy I live in the 3rd world and can do whatever I want

>>17684160
does it matter what kind of engineer? and do you need to take a special course of get certified by the government or anything?

God damn the rest of the world fucking sucks. Thank you freedom land

>>17685635
>living somewhere that does routine car inspections

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There is a reason why I (and 90% of my country) drive little 1.2 liter shitboxes like pic related. Everything that is just a little bit fun gets taxed to hell

>im from holland btw

>>17684024
sand hill cranes are protected and stop up roads and highways

>>17684024
What can you do in the Czech Republic with your cars (even with the legal paperwork)?
Im looking too maybe do some long term stuff and cars might become a large part of it.

>>17684160
>You want to change the wheels? Get an engineer.
This is bullshit. Post whatever source you're reading from

>>17700593
My brother moved there and pays about £1500 tax on his 1.4 Fabia, I got the ferry over to visit and everyone stared at my 370z, its far from brilliant but you would think I rolled in on a Ferrari.

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Moving to Lithuania soon from UK
Wanted to buy a car in UK because there's much better choice for better prices
Then I found out that Lithuania you can only drive a right hand drive car for 90 days
After that you have to have it converted into a left hand drive
Fucking retarded country

>>17684285
Btw dutch consumers are retarded they pay way too much for cars, and i know about the BPM (dutch tax on cars) but you can get almost every car cheaper if you import it from germany and pay registration fees+bpm

>>17684024
Any car that has been approved by any of the EU member states can be imported to the Czech republic, because britain has the least rules many people build kitcars and engine swapped cars in britain and export them to their own country

>>17684024
CR and SK is basically funpolice, no mods whatsoever. In CR you can't even have a lightbar on a truck.

>get [part] with propper homologization
>instal part
>go to gubment mandated inspection
>Well, fuck you anon beacuse your [part] was homologized on it's own and not as a part of the car by OEM

The only way to do anything is to mod the car in Germoney, pay the TUV jew and import it back...

>>17689555
Alright, now a european country definetely has it worse than we do over here in Germany. Maybe that's because our car manufacturers have more power than PSA.

>>17685767
Move to Canada you dumb fucking American commie.

15 year import rule here, we get all the good cars 10 years before you, so we can beat on them for 5 years, then sell them to you dumb asses for more than we paid for them.

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>>17697980
>fine for smoking
>in France

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>>17684944
Yes you can do that, i believe you can even get away with swapping out different engine options ie. a 4.0L 6cyl to a 5.4L V8 on the B-Series Falcon without a mod plate, as long as it was originally an option from factory, goes for other cars too
Pic Related

Americans lobby to change laws. SC doesn't have a POV inspection at all (or need it, I'm a mechanic and we aren't in the Rust Belt) because dealers and the public lobbied against it.

Euros are such pussies they surrender to each other.

The king of citizen lobbies in the US is the NRA. Become like them and politicians bend the knee.

>>17703661
It's actually fine for smoking with children in the car

>>17703478
A fucking leaf

>Australia

>Aftermarket steering wheels that remove airbags are illegal
>Car's can't be lower than 100mm

>>17689208
That was a friend of a friend's car.

I saved this off his fb and posted it here and then I reposted it on 4chan.

After that it went viral.

>>17684024
You can't even upgrade brakes for better ones for that matter.

>>17695926
>>None of this is enforced outside of main cities and towns


Wrong, I am afraid to drive through Ipswich.

That city is full of cops that think anyone with a lowered vehicle is a bogan and I try not to drive through their and when I do I take the back roads.

>>17696676
Why do so many of those impala lowriders have LS engines and digital dashes then?

>>17696723
Haha, du klingst wie mein Ex. Wander doch einfach aus?

>>17700593
Can you at least lower it and change the wheels?

>>17705880
different California here. Gas cars older than 75 are exempt from smog, diesels older than 90. "Classics," are super fuck-with-able from the CA DMV POV, but then the problem is getting insurance to play ball depending on what it is and what you've done.

New model swaps can probably pass smog pretty easy, or they have a magic smogman who makes sure they pass smog.

Nightmare mode: Smogging JDM or EU imports.

>>17684028
>man I really wish Pedro from down the road could cobble together a road legal 500hp hotrod
said no one ever

>>17694557
>moving sidewalks and robot maids and flying cars
We have 2/3 of those though.

>>17705933
>>man I really wish Pedro from down the road could cobble together a road legal 500hp hotrod
You don't want this?

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>>17696712
this plus almost identical laws like germany.
can't even put rims on car if offset is 1mm different then OEM

>>17705961
Corners exist

>>17700654

Seems about right, buddy of mine owns an audi rs4 and people stare at it like he owns some sort of f1 car

>>17695893
>tag says it's blue
Where on your license plates does it indicate the color of the car?

>>17700675
>you cant have bucket seats here because seats have to be adjustable
the modification laws are fucking vague here, at least for me
i've red trough the guideline and it's basically
>"must not exceed/meet manufacturers specifics or if not present must not exceed/meet x values
i have no idea if you mod your car do they go for the 2nd part or if it's not passable because it's not OEM.

there is one good thing about EU - if your counties laws are shit you can just go to another, less restrictive country and pass the tech there

also about rhd i've red somewhere that you can get a special plate and/or licence, might have changed, dunno
non the less there are a lot of ppl who do rhd to lhd conversions here

>>17684024

>I can not drive faster than 80 km/h on expressway
>Police has recently increased speed traps on mountain roads (touge)

Welcome to slow Japan

>>17684024
Is that a holdover from the time you had 54hp porsche knockoffs or is it from after you became "free".

>>17696996
>>17697629
Which country you live in senpai?

>>17685844
My uncle bought a used car there this year, when he took it for inspection, the guy started bitching about why we didn't wash the engine since it was dusty, and that we wouldn't go to a dentist without brushing our teeth, so before a car inspection we should wash our engine bay before an inspection. This was just a dusty engine, no oil leaks or anything.

Also they use sheet metal screws to screw your plates to the car, and then a hole is drilled through the plates and the car and the plates get riveted to your car.

>>17703478
Not in Quebec, IMPORT LAW IS BACK TO 25
FUCKING FRENCHIES