Converting a 928 from LHD to RHD
02-12-2010, 01:19 AM
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Converting a 928 from LHD to RHD
I may relocate my life to somewhere that will only allow me to have an RHD vehicle. My mint condition 1-owner 1986 928 is more than just a car to me and because of its sentimental value, I am left contemplating what if I were to convert it to an RHD from LHD so that I could import it.
Has this ever been done? How difficult is such a feat? Am I also to understand that RHD 928 parts are hard to come by since so few were made in the first place?
Any information would be most appreciated!
Has this ever been done? How difficult is such a feat? Am I also to understand that RHD 928 parts are hard to come by since so few were made in the first place?
Any information would be most appreciated!
02-12-2010, 01:23 AM
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Someone has asked this before and there is a thread on it... I recall the final verdict was the amount of work required was FAR BEYOND DAUNTING! Entire new wiring harness would be bad enough... but that was just the start!
Good luck and I can imagine how hard it would be to give a car that you bought new that is so special!
Good luck and I can imagine how hard it would be to give a car that you bought new that is so special!
02-12-2010, 01:27 AM
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It would help to know where you were wanting to move from and too.
It is doable, but the level of work is rather nutty, and beyond what most would consider doing as you have to literally remove EVERYTHING from the car.
It is doable, but the level of work is rather nutty, and beyond what most would consider doing as you have to literally remove EVERYTHING from the car.
02-12-2010, 01:36 AM
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She would be going from Canada to Hong Kong. I have looked up the relevant laws on it which state the car must be RHD (and after paying some ridiculous amount of tax on the car like 35% if it falls within the first bracket and some cars can be subject to 100%). But as I feared, sounds like the amount of work and cost involved would be far too great as I would have to pay someone else to do it....
What to do what to do....
What to do what to do....
02-12-2010, 01:54 AM
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Move to the US...or Mexico, or central America...lots of Ex-pats in Panama these days I hear... Or stay in Canada...pretty nice country and get a winter home in HK and spend summers in Canada!
02-12-2010, 01:58 AM
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Canada is too cold! The 928 only gets to dance on the asphalt 3 months a year at most. Hong Kong would have been ideal, it would have become my daily driver... the way things should be! hah!
Might just have to find a way to keep it and just play with it whenever I go there for a holiday. As a 928 lover I just might have to find a way!
But importing one from Japan to use in HK doesn't seem that bad of an idea considering how nice those GTS' look!
Might just have to find a way to keep it and just play with it whenever I go there for a holiday. As a 928 lover I just might have to find a way!
But importing one from Japan to use in HK doesn't seem that bad of an idea considering how nice those GTS' look!
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02-12-2010, 04:08 AM
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02-12-2010, 09:04 AM
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I think the best way to convert a LHD to RHD would be also what I consider the best way to convert an auto to manual. Sell the LHD car, and buy a RHD car. And I will tell you the same thing I told my brother that spent way too much restoring a van he said had "sentimental value." I have underwear with sentimental value, but when the elastic dies, it gets holes, or skid marks that don't wash out, I still throw em away and buy new ones.
02-12-2010, 01:32 PM
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It is a bit like gender change surgery and trust me the car would never be the same.......or 100 % correct. Plus with the car any and all future problems you would always wonder was it cause by all the tearing apart and reworking....In addition getting someone in Hong Kong who could work on it is just about impossible. I had customers who had 928s there and it was a nightmare. Heard of one guy who shipped his car to California for service !
02-12-2010, 02:26 PM
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If you are willing to import a car from Canada to HK, I'd just sell the 928 in Canada, buy a UK 928, and ship that over instead.
BTW, and bit OT, someone local to me was trying to sell a late 90's RHD BMW 528. It was the ultimate white elephant car. Nice enough not to want to part out, just expensive enough not to want to sell for nothing, but cheap enough that noone will buy it for export without losing a ton of $$$, and worst of all, not British. RHD Jag or Triumph--cool. RHD anything not British, blech.
BTW, and bit OT, someone local to me was trying to sell a late 90's RHD BMW 528. It was the ultimate white elephant car. Nice enough not to want to part out, just expensive enough not to want to sell for nothing, but cheap enough that noone will buy it for export without losing a ton of $$$, and worst of all, not British. RHD Jag or Triumph--cool. RHD anything not British, blech.
02-12-2010, 03:01 PM
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Man. I don't know. Have you tried driving in Hong Kong? I would love to live there, but I would just take a taxi. No place to open up a 928, to say nothing of parking it. For a tiny fraction of the price, get a long term storage situation and put the car on mothballs until you come back to LHD land. Lots of warm places to live that are LHD.