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Originally posted by a bloke on passionford
2008 rule changes

New, special regulations for the Nurburgring Nordschleife for next year during TouristenFahen.

- All German cars, (which must by law TÜV approved) will be allowed, provided that they can produce TÜV certificates/papers for any modifications on the car on demand
- Non German cars which are standard will be allowed(*)
- Non German cars which are modified will be allowed provided they can produce TÜV certificates/papers for all modifications on demand.


The reason for this is to combat the growing number of race cars which have been using TouristenFahren for cheap practice with a set of foreign plates on, and similarly cars with questionable modifications.

What the general thinking of this, is it will be enforced somewhat like the current noise testing etc, i.e. provided your car looks alright and proper, and you're well behaved you will be unlikely to get challenged.

However, in the event of an incident you'd get in a lot of bother, if you couldn't produce papers...

Similarly if your driving or your car attracts attention to itself, you might be checked...


Most parts (e.g. KW suspension, AP brakes) have TÜV approval, so you should be able get papers for them easily if they didn't come with your kit, by writing to the manufacturer if you have lost them.

Bits off race cars might be harder to explain though..

Can see, and understand why they're doing this from a safety point of view....
Similarly, its going to hope the local specialists, who might well get more business, as a result of perhaps non German tuners not understanding TÜV regulations...


If you have specialist components in your car, for which you don't have TÜV certificates, it is possible to get a SuperTÜV done, but its quite costly.

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Originally posted by Steve
need some clarification on standard really, are we talking a standard car with a remap wont be ok etc?

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Originally posted by willhouse
http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/tuv/index.html

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Originally posted by Steve
need some clarification on standard really, are we talking a standard car with a remap wont be ok etc?

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Originally posted by lee_wee
but it says non german cars will be ok with eu marks and eec etc?

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- Non German cars which are modified will be allowed provided they can produce TÜV certificates/papers for all modifications on demand.

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Originally posted by Robin

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Originally posted by lee_wee
but it says non german cars will be ok with eu marks and eec etc?

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- Non German cars which are modified will be allowed provided they can produce TÜV certificates/papers for all modifications on demand.

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Your best bet is to carry the paperwork that came with things like rollcages, aftermarket suspension, brakes, etc, to show that they have some kind of approval: TUV, FIA, EC markings

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Originally posted by Steve
need some clarification on standard really, are we talking a standard car with a remap wont be ok etc?

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As it's no longer a standard car, no.

I'm guessing they won't notice or care until you bend it, at which time the map will be read out and analysed and you'll be fined or something.

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