Has anyone here gone abroad to buy a car and driven it back to the UK??

[Stanners]

Hi,
Speaking about L/H drive cars in the UK, have any of you had a problem driving left had drives on our roads? I had a W124 500E which I loved and drove every day, however I soon found driving a right drive car very difficult, my wife’s alloys on the SL are testimony to that. I found the whole L/H driving experience great, but as I said very hard to adjust back. I in the end I sold the 500E.

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by Stanners

Hi,
Speaking about L/H drive cars in the UK, have any of you had a problem driving left had drives on our roads? I had a W124 500E which I loved and drove every day, however I soon found driving a right drive car very difficult, my wife’s alloys on the SL are testimony to that. I found the whole L/H driving experience great, but as I said very hard to adjust back. I in the end I sold the 500E.

Personally, I feel more comfortable driving a LHD car in the UK. The only problem was for the first 10 minutes where you get the occasional drift in to the centre of the road!
After driving a left hooker for a while, I've found in the past that when I get in to a RHD afterwards, I tend to leave a lot more room when passing parked traffic on my left.

Our van is a left hooker as were the 2 before that and the RS2 was as well. If you're right handed, you're changing gear with your natural hand as well.










And it's better for kerb crawling.................apparently!

[vag80]

i'm just getting use to it just spent 2 1/2 hours in my 4000 and loved it, but when i filled up today i still go to get in the right hand side lol

[Stanners]

My car was an Automatic; I also agree I found I drove the car quicker especially round roundabouts. The Current Mrs Stansfield hated it as you are right you do drift a bit. She was seen holding on to the seat for grim death, as she’s was on the outside on the motorway. Happy days....!