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you UK people are so lucky to be able to do this.
in france this is so much totally out of question to modify anything on the car performance-wise, else you have to re-homologate the car by bringing it to the 'DRIRE' (Direction régionale de l'Industrie, de la Recherche et de l'Environnement), which is a long, costly, and try-again process, and assigns the car a specific model number, and then insurance costs are so high you just buy a better stock car in the first place.
wha'ts more, there's some legal prerequisite that installing some parts must have them being approved by the car manufacturer, which is just completely insane: you will of course ever receive an answer from honda that fitting this ecu or that break caliper or even alloys is safe to use on the car.
yet the law contradicts itself as things like changing alloys are legal as long as the alloy does not stands out of the car body, and things like aero kits, lowering springs, air filters or performance exhausts are tolerated and never checked by the police, but could bite you back very hard in the event of an accident, simply nullifying the insurance contract...
so any half-serious performance mod makes your car a track one... or yourself an outlaw.
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