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Post by wannabe on Apr 6, 2020 9:58:32 GMT
Or is there a Rolling Road tuner you could trailer the car to and then book a day on the rollers?
Not to do any tuning, just to use the rollers as a form of (variable?) resistance for the engine to work against? (If I'm not totally misunderstanding how they work.)
To ask a stupid question... how are you going to drive it within or drive it out of Switzerland if it's not road legal anyway?? lol
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Post by zoona on Apr 6, 2020 10:17:29 GMT
No idea. Possibly never... I need to find somewhere to drive it don't i... You have the Swiss version of the MOT, don't you? Could you book one and drive it there? Not exactly 1000 miles, but... It isn't (and can never be) registered as a Swiss car. It is on a temporary import, and I have to get it out of country by October. So I have no insurance, or a uk mot. There is just no way to drive it in the road here. And it's not like the UK where you could be a bit cheeky and talk your way out of it. They get very upset if you try to break the rules here... I need to find a private industrial estate or something. Not very hopeful... |
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Post by zoona on Apr 6, 2020 10:20:30 GMT
Or is there a Rolling Road tuner you could trailer the car to and then book a day on the rollers? Not to do any tuning, just to use the rollers as a form of (variable?) resistance for the engine to work against? (If I'm not totally misunderstanding how they work.) To ask a stupid question... how are you going to drive it within or drive it out of Switzerland if it's not road legal anyway?? lol That is another possibility, but I hate to think what the bloody rates would be here On the back of a transporter. That's how I got it here, and it was a bloody mission. I should have just spent 2 weeks in the UK to fix it there I think. Would have been a lot easier and cheaper. Except covid19 would have screwed that up It all seemed so easy on paper... But has turned into a bloody nightmare. |
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Post by dadbif on Apr 6, 2020 12:15:31 GMT
If you don’t intend returning to the UK what are you going to do with the car?
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Post by zoona on Apr 6, 2020 12:26:34 GMT
Umm... Very good question.
Either send it back there, so it is available for me to fly back for track day weekends. Or formally import it here, and then trailer it to other more motorsport-friendly countries.
When I decided to bring it over here, we had only just got here so really had no idea what we were doing in a year or two years time. Having spent two years here now, I wore like it... Apart from them being massive ducks about cars in general.
The main goal is to get it running, so it doesn't suit for ages with a rebuilt but never run engine b it has already been in that state for nearly 2 years now. I just want to prove that o have actually built a working engine, rather than some expensive scrap.
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Post by wannabe on Apr 6, 2020 17:19:53 GMT
You have the Swiss version of the MOT, don't you? Could you book one and drive it there? Not exactly 1000 miles, but... It isn't (and can never be) registered as a Swiss car. It is on a temporary import, and I have to get it out of country by October. So I have no insurance, or a uk mot. There is just no way to drive it in the road here. And it's not like the UK where you could be a bit cheeky and talk your way out of it. They get very upset if you try to break the rules here... I need to find a private industrial estate or something. Not very hopeful... This sounds like a legal nightmare, lol. If it has no UK MOT, is it legal to drive on any road in the EU? Or is it just a UK requirement for UK roads, so one could technically drive to a port on the last day of a valid MOT and then drive it round the EU without one for the next year (or whatever) on a UK insurance policy?? Could you run for the border and use the drive back here as 'running in'?  lol |
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lol
le sigh