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cossack · 09-05-2013, 01:47 AM

Good luck with the move. I know there are three real csl's in the US. The last one was imported into puerto rico first somehow, then brought over to Florida. Since Puerto Rico is a protectorate of the US i believe they are more lenient. In any case it won't be easy after your one year is up. You'd have to change the front bumper so it could have the yellow reflectors, the intake to the standard version, switch to OBD, change the headers, change the cats, change the rear glass. Everything else you could probably leave on, don't take my word on it though.

The other way would be buy a US M3, bring over your csl. Do a mass part swap so the vin would be a US vin, however all the parts would be from your csl on the US M3. If you did it this way buy a CS (ZCP) so you don't have to change the steering rack. Also a couple of other parts are shared with the competition package M3. That's the way I'd do it, since ZCP M3's can be had for less then 20,000 usd.

09-05-2013, 01:47 AM	#22
cossack S3 - On the open road Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California - SF Posts: 90 Casino cash: $1237	Good luck with the move. I know there are three real csl's in the US. The last one was imported into puerto rico first somehow, then brought over to Florida. Since Puerto Rico is a protectorate of the US i believe they are more lenient. In any case it won't be easy after your one year is up. You'd have to change the front bumper so it could have the yellow reflectors, the intake to the standard version, switch to OBD, change the headers, change the cats, change the rear glass. Everything else you could probably leave on, don't take my word on it though. The other way would be buy a US M3, bring over your csl. Do a mass part swap so the vin would be a US vin, however all the parts would be from your csl on the US M3. If you did it this way buy a CS (ZCP) so you don't have to change the steering rack. Also a couple of other parts are shared with the competition package M3. That's the way I'd do it, since ZCP M3's can be had for less then 20,000 usd. Last edited by cossack; 09-05-2013 at 01:54 AM.