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Hi 1Bill.
I don´t know if you guys in the States have something comparable, but in Germany there is an authority called TÜV (you could call it an authority for technical surveillance).
If your car is not TÃœV-approved, you are not allowed to drive it on German streets.
There are so many stupid rules over here, for example what tyres in combination with what rims on what car you are allowed to drive. If your car isn´t in the list, you have to let them do a single-check, costs about 80 $ (I had to do it with my rims and tyres).
There are even rules what parts - they must have a TÃœV-approval or at least a document that confirms they are not harmful to anyone out on the streets - you are allowed to build onto or into your car.
So we cannot do such great mods on our cars as you can do in the U.S.
The most stupid thing I got to know recently: You probably know the alu-race-pedal-covers? In Germany, the TÃœV has to check, if your installation is correct (means: as the supplier tells in his manual), and that alone will cost you about 40 $, only to get an OK from TÃœV.
Ain´t that shit?
Every two years we have to refresh our TÜV-approval, and in my case it could be, that the man at TÜV knows, how my mirrors should look like and won´t give me the approval for my car if I drive it with the US-mirrors, so I probably will have to change the mirrors back again (at least the day I go to TÜV, haha).
That´s why I can´t trade my mirrors, so sorry.
The risk that I might need them again, if TÃœV or the police tell me so, is too high.
CU,
Michael
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