I am kind of in the same boat as you. I just shipped mine to Japan. Mine is going through emissions next month for my "shaken (Japan title)".
Then I have to get the JCI inspection where headlight aim, installing road flare in passenger cabin...and pushing the mph to kmh button comes into play. LOL! I do know in Germany and the UK they do have the rear fog light requirement. But I haven't found any real major things that differ between the models.

I think my biggest possible hang up will de at emissions determining if the JDM catalytic converter is different. I did return my car back to stock before shipping it though to keep it low key through the inspection process. Also, the Japanese are pickey with alignment settings. From what I researched the car should be at factory settings, but the toe should be 0 and no excessive negative camber. This is what I read on the inspection site, but my mechanic for the importing process is telling me different, He is saying only toe matters for the JCI.

Good luck, It'll be fun having your S with you!

 

I wouldnt thin the cat would be an issue seeing as our a emission standards are more strict than theirs, are you on Kadena?

 

No, I am on Mainland (Misawa, Japan) The reason I worry about the cat is my friend who shipped his cars here had to get Japan Spec Cats because they were more strict.

 

Didn't think you had to do anything if you were only taking it over there temporarily

 

I think I need to change my headlight deflectors to white and add a white buld, side markers need to be white with white bulb and add a rear foglight. What are they talking about when they say aiming of the headlights. Apparently our headlight slope a different way - whats this mean?

 

Our lights are aimed for driving on the right side of the road. The right light is aimed higher than the left for greater visibility. The left
can't be aimed high because it will blind oncoming traffic....So if you take a LHD car and drive it on the left side of the road you are going to blind oncoming traffic. You Just have to aim them opposite of what they are now. It wil be checked for any vehicle inspection in UK, Japan, where ever.

 

Since they drive on a different side of the road, I think they have to adjust the aiming of the headlights so it doesn't blind the oncoming traffic. In the states the right light is aimed slightly higher than the left, I would guess they would switch this arround for UK roads.

 

Oh okay cool. I might look into that and see what I can do. I'd hate to have to sell my car because it's going to cost $2000 to make it road legal in the UK.

 

$2,000.00 isn't a bad deal. You shouldn't have to replace your lights. Just take it in or look in the DIY for headlight aiming. I think Billman wrote a good write up on it. But you'll have to do opposite of what it says in there. Eiether way, you will spend 2,000 on a crap car that you can't keep cause you can't bring it home, or you can enjoy your own car and bring it home with you when you are done.

Mine is going to be $4,000.00 because I don't speak or read Japanese so I have to pay someone to do the emissions run through for me. They have to drive 10 hrs from Aomori to Tokyo.

 

Is this just a temporary thing?

I just talked to my mate who's lived in the UK for 25+ years and he seems to agree with me that there's nothing that you need to do to the vehicle in order to bring it over temporarily.

Edit: Just read what PCS means...

Here's a start:

http://www.import-car.info/modifications.shtml