I disagree. Not that much hassle if you are handy with the tools, and (assuming the LHD country you are moving to is anything like France) a MASSIVE cost saving.
There are people on ebay offering the conversion for about 700 quid, but i hear very bad things about the quality of their work. I converted mine myself with relative ease.
Mine is a 2001 td4 which I picked up for under 1500 quid in UK. The conversion cost me about 250€ in used parts from a breakers. To buy a LHD equivelant here would leave me no change from €4500.
While the dashboard is symetrical; allowing the instrument binnacle to be moved to the left and the storage gubbins to take its place, there is a little more work underneath to be done. The bulkhead is not symetrical, so you will need to remove the steering column mount from the right (drill out the spot welds) and re-weld it on the left. The mounting for the clutch master cylinder will need to be replicated on the left too. It would be possible to drill the welds and remove the relevant section over, but it was quicker for me to knock up the form in sheet steel and weld it in. The brake master cylinder and servo fit in an existing hole; which just needs bolt holes drilling - I believe this hole is used for the air con pipes, but mine doesent have AC so I couldnt tell you about re-routing these pipes. I shortened the existing clutch hydraulic line. The brake pipes from the ABS pump to the master cylinder will need to be replaced or extended. There are various wires in the engine bay to shift, but nothing major. The dash loom can be unclipped and fitted the other way round, but you will need to make up an extension piece from the dash loom to the fuse box. This consists of about 30 wires. Good quality heat-shrink crimps and some patience will get this done in an hour or so.
The cabin air filter will need removed and replaced with the LHD version on the other side, which requires a hole being opened in the scuttle panel.
The steering rack needs swapped for a LHD one, with the matching PAS hoses. This is a straight bolt-on swap on the existing mounts though.
I got the rack, brake lines and a few other bits n bobs from a crashed freelander in a breakers here. Ideally I would have got the cabin filter housing etc, and a few other bits n bobs, but the cabin was too badly crushed for me to remove much, so I never bothered with the cabin filter on mine.
There are a few wee things that you could swap, but I am happy to do without..... the carpets etc have the rubber mat fixed to the wrong side now, but thats not a major hassle, the lumbar adjustment is also still on the wrong side, but I never used it anyway. stuff like the one-touch operation of the elec window still operates on the right hand side, the RH door is the first to unlock from the fob and the lights on warning buzzer works on the RH door (i have figured which wires to swap at the central control unit buit have not got round to fixing this yet). The only niggle I have is I still have the RHD wiper setup which is not ideal, but I have not yet found a LHD mechanism in a breakers for reasonable money.
If you can do this sort of work yourself its a no-brainer, but having to pay a garage to do it would cost a lot, probably not worth it I would reckon.
You just need to weigh up the advantages of having a cheap LHD car that you know the history of against the costs and risk in buying a LHD car that might turn out to be a lemon.
Look carefully into re-registration costs where you are going too, In France this adds another €500 or so onto the bill....Certificate of Conformity, Control Technique, Carte Gris, plus since mine is a Commercial variant, which was allegedly never homologated for France I had to do an equivelant for a partial SVA test here which cost a further €150 or so.
