Is there anything to change??
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CLK 500 Convertible
Is there anything to change??
Maybe one of you can help me with this. In about 6th month i might move to the US. Does anybody know what i ll have to change on my german spec clk so i can register it in the states. Do i have to change the lights and put orange parking lights on my car? Speedometer should be no problem i saw that i can switch that one over in milage. What are the things that i ll have to do? 
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i don't have parking lights at all. Are they a must be. Maybe one of you can tell me a site with the american regulations. Is there some kind of inspection!? Or can you just register it? What is there to do?
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If your car is a right hand drive, you'll need to convert, the sidemarkers don't really matter, people here do the euro conversion to eliminate the amber sidemarker lens.
The speedometer will need to be converted, other than that, you're good to go, oh... you may need a US Spec trunklid and front bumper for your US license plates.
The speedometer will need to be converted, other than that, you're good to go, oh... you may need a US Spec trunklid and front bumper for your US license plates.
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i have just look at some of pictures of the guys in this forum with a clk 500 and they don't even have them sidemarkers. so i guess they are not really law... hmmmh?
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Originally Posted by onkelmarknr1
Maybe one of you can help me with this. In about 6th month i might move to the US. Does anybody know what i ll have to change on my german spec clk so i can register it in the states. Do i have to change the lights and put orange parking lights on my car? Speedometer should be no problem i saw that i can switch that one over in milage. What are the things that i ll have to do?
The spedometer scale is different as well, KM/h vs. MILES/h.
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Don't you have to change everything from the rightside driver seat to the leftside driver seat?
Anything else in Europe is left hand drive. I'm British, living in Germany/Holland and my car is brand new and amazingly, left hand drive
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do you think we'll have to change the speedometer scale. in the digital mode you can switch it to miles i saw. so maybe we don't even have to change that. i ll check for you overhere. i don't have the xeon package. are you going to work for the american goverment or military overhere. if so, you don't have to change anything just to let you know.
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Originally Posted by onkelmarknr1
do you think we'll have to change the speedometer scale. in the digital mode you can switch it to miles i saw. so maybe we don't even have to change that. i ll check for you overhere. i don't have the xeon package. are you going to work for the american goverment or military overhere. if so, you don't have to change anything just to let you know.
