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Owning a left hand drive car


abtin90

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A friend of my dads is looking to sell his Mercedes G Wagon on the cheap and is happy taking trade in value for it rather than trade it in at Mercedes for a new one.

 

Now this is one of the cars on my list that I would like to own and am quite key to buy it however the fact that it is LHD is putting me off. This will be my new daily if I buy it and was wondering if any members have owned or currently own a left hand drive and if it made any difference, or if they experienced any difficulties?

 

From what I have read online insurance can be higher and was therefore wondering what the mark up is on insurance (if there is one) when insuring a LHD car?

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tooquicktostop would be a good guy to ask. I'm pretty sure he's had quite a few American cars.

 

The first thing that always comes to my mind when someone mentions LHD would be having to reverse through the McD's drivethru :D

 

ha ha that is a major downside, also ticket barriers/entry to places in general can get anoying unless you have a passenger to do the business :)

 

Driving wise you get used to it within literally a few minutes of driving, the only thing i hated was overtaking, its a lot more difficult when you have to lean right over to get a good view of whats coming the other way!

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ha ha that is a major downside, also ticket barriers/entry to places in general can get anoying unless you have a passenger to do the business :)

 

Driving wise you get used to it within literally a few minutes of driving, the only thing i hated was overtaking, its a lot more difficult when you have to lean right over to get a good view of whats coming the other way!

 

Haha good point didn't think of ticket barriers those will definitely be a hassle when coming out of car parks.

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