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Reefshark,
sounds like our cars were federalised by the same shop! My fog lights come on with the high beams as well, as long as the button is pushed, and when I push both the front and rear fog light buttons the running lights and front and rear fogs get brighter. Needless to say fixing this is on my to-do list.-

Jadz928

The inner auxilliary lights are supposed to turn on with high beam. That's factory for Euro/RoW cars.

Are you sure it's the outer foglamps that are turning on with high beam?

BRB-83-911SC

What Jim said.

For Euro OB/S cars, the outer front bumper lights are dual purpose - dim running/parking lights, and bright for fog lights. The inner set is the auxilliary high beam.

• Headlight switch on, low beam, fogs off - headlights + outer lights dim + inner lights off
• Headlight switch on, high beam, fogs off - headlights + outer lights dim + inner lights on
• Headlight switch on, low beam, fogs on - headlights + outer lights bright + inner lights off
• Headlight switch on, high beam, fogs on - headlights + outer lights bright + inner lights on - full attack.

US laws prohibit fogs running with high beams - so, they *may* get disabled during federalization. Mine escaped that fate however.

NordicSaab

My Euro S is the exact same. I have been meaning to do the exhaust, but did not want to do so until a set of MSDS headers was in the equation. The Welds look like spray painted bubble gum...

Aspkiller

Back in the heyday of 3.44 German Marks to the US Dollar, I brought in quite a few cars (MB and Porsche only) from the fatherland. Every U.S. citizen, regardless of age, was allow to import one vehicle, at least five years old, without having to do EPA federalization. DOT work was still required. I brought in one car initially, sight unseen. The seller was the owner of a pizza shop in Ahlen and I bought it on the advise of another importer friend. It was a 280C, manual tranny, velour interior. My friend and I picked it up in Long Beach and I think he is still laughing today at my expression when they brought the car out of the impound lot. Horribly ugly brown, with a totally faded beige interior that appeared to have blood splattered all over the back seat and headliner. Pretty sure someone died to make my purchase possible.

Anyway, it ran like a champ and after a paint and upholstery job, sold it for about 3K profit. Bought a ticket to Frankfurt the day after it sold and started a short but fun career as a grey marketer.

As I was doing it for profit, I used a fairly high quality shop in Southern California. IIRC, the full on DOT/EPA work was about $2,500-$3,000. I was aware of other shops, mostly in Houston, that would charge as little as $1,000 for the same work, or so they said.

About 6 months ago, I finally destroyed all of my files, so exact details of the work and copies of the release docs are no longer around, but the fond memories still are.

michael j wright

I ran a carfax on mine, it stated the day it arrived in Huston and the day that it was released from impound. Might be worth trying.

ReefShark

Just had the time to check out my brain on MY85 Euro. Here are the numbers.
928.618.124.03
I read the "link" where one Euro had the brain changed during federalization, from what I understand, mine has a US brain, is this correct?

Fabio421

Here is the o2 box that was added to my 85 euro during federalization. It has three wires. Two are tied into the fuel injection computer and the third goes through the firewall and looks like it used to be tied into the 02 sensor. That wire going to the o2 sensor looks to have been disconnected for a long time.