My long-awaited EURO Mustang EcoBoost: please welcome The Italian Pony!

[papinist]

You can't imagine how many people ask me "How could you have bought a Ferrari??!!"

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[nicktechla]

The EU has very stringent pedestrian-strike regulations. My guess is that it's supposed to deploy in the event of a strike, thus cushioning the impact of a person rolling onto the car.

interesting! I had to google it, i needed to know more.

http://www.nissan-global.com/JP/TECHNOLOGY/FILES/2010/09/f4c84c419e6167.jpg

 

[papinist]

Welcome to the group papinist...

if you ever get the chance to remove the front or rear bumper, please take pictures so those of us in America can see if Ford is using a different bumper support for the rest of the world.

In America the bumper support is extremely heavy.

After some time I finally managed to remove the bumper and send headlights to install tribar led drls!!

I did many photos and want to create specific thread for removing bumper and lights, but I have some pictures that are perfect for this thread.
First of all, as per Schu request, pictures of the front support:

Inside the bumper I found a strange sensor, not reported in all other videos I see for removing bumper:

Guess what? I believe these are the pedestrian impact sensors!

Euro fog light: no led but 'old school' H8 halogen bulb

Despite Ford create these very cool tribar led DRLs, they don't give them to the rest of the world, so we have these small bulbs inside fog light housing (both with the H8 halogen) that are our ugly DRLs..

Different HID ballast (25w instead of 35w)

and different bulb (damn stupid euro regulations)

Since I removed taillights too , took some pictures in the trunk:
this should be a key fob antenna

Don't know if US has this too: an FM antenna hidden in the trunk left side!

That's all for now! :cheers:

 

[Ericc B]

So from the looks of this we could easily swap the H8 foglight for a 'xenon look' H8 halogen bulb? I had a set of those in my previous car. They are not an improvement in terms of light efficiency but they did match the xenon headlights better in hue.

 

[Ace]

You can easily switch the bulbs, too bad they arent legal here in germany. I will change the whole drl/foglight to a white LED one from Osram (called LEDriving Fog Light) which luckily are allowed here :headbonk:

 

[Ericc B]

You can easily switch the bulbs, too bad they arent legal here in germany.

Thanks. Here in Holland we get at least our outragious car taxes worth by a government that doesn't really give a damn about what we modify on our cars

Btw my car's front-end looks exactly like Papinist's at the moment since my head lights are also in Poland, getting the DRL treatment. And with the bumper off it should be a piece of cake to swap out the fog light and parking light bulbs for blue ones. Can't wait for the results.

 

[Flak]

I am curious with the Schengen agreement if you modify your vehicle and then drive to another EU country that doesn't allow it can you get cited/pulled over or is it based upon your country of residency/registration?

 

[Ericc B]

can you get cited/pulled over or is it based upon your country of residency/registration?

Luckily it's the latter. It would be impossible to travel around Europe by modified car otherwise.

 

[Dennis_]

Schengen = no more border checks, no more checkpoints and you can drive freely into every country. No borders at all.

Your car should be legal as it is in the registered country. If the car is registrered in Danmark it has to obey the rules of Danmark. Even if you are driving in another country with different rules.

 

[Excelerater]

fantastica..

Looks great,I like the subtle euro differences

 

[Voodoo077]

Beautiful car and very nice topic with all those good pictures.
Only question is why did you take the alu option instead of black around windows and trims?
Ciao!

 

[papinist]

Thanks Voodoo077!

The chrome windows trim is included with the euro premium\custom pack, and I want the pack because there were rumors that it will have included better interiors, that when first euro cars were delivered we found it was true

 

[Voodoo077]

Thanks Voodoo077!

The chrome windows trim is included with the euro premium\custom pack, and I want the pack because there were rumors that it will have included better interiors, that when first euro cars were delivered we found it was true

The chrome actually looks nice on your car but I had a preference for the black rimms and black around windows. Took all of the same options as the premium pack and it comes 300€ or so cheaper but different Leather. I do not think the difference is big, I would have prefered it too but not possible.
But more important the other chages you made, make your car even more personal and special

 

[papinist]

me too would have preferred black rims but after seeing in person the differences, I'm glad to choose the custom pack
You can find a thread where me and a friend compared the same car with and without custom pack.

 

[Mustang1260]

Fantastic news and pics. So glad you waited out the process. ENJOY some backroad hill town drives this spring! Your gonna be a star.

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