Thread: Ordering parts from overseas

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I'll play,,
short motor sent DHL economy from England, (around 250 pound opposed to 450), despatched yesterday, supposedly 5-10 days.
will let you know when it arrives,,

So not much point sending the old short motor back to get the core charge refund.

er, no.
the old block is worth 30cents per kilo as it stands(with crank and pistons) from a scrappy, and around 90cpk if I take all the non alloy bits off.
I'd actually like to bring it home and take it apart in the garage,, but it would still probably only end up scrapped.


Late Edit;
given away to a good home

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I'll play,,
short motor sent DHL economy from England, (around 250 pound opposed to 450), despatched yesterday, supposedly 5-10 days.
will let you know when it arrives,,

arrived yesterday the 19th, so 5 days.

now DHL just have to get it to the Sunshine Coast,,,,,,

arrived at BOR on the 20th.

I installed the reconditioned fuel pump today.
They recalibrated it to factory specs, which is what i asked them to do. The price was pretty good in the end, could have saved myself months of dramas. but anyways

Take it for a test drive..... oh my.. I nearly forgot how gutless these things are in standard tuning. I may have tweaked it back up a little while i was out

SS
I had the same dilemma recently with an MB G Wagon.
Customer brought me a Euro spec temp grey import unit camper (looked like a Pope mobile quite frankly German family touring the USA )

The power pack was a MB 602 Turbo unit with an electronically controlled VE pump which was suffering with pumping problems .

Big problem! No such animal on this side, the same unit uses a 5 cylinder inline jerk pump for NAS imports. No info, no interest, no shops wanted to touch the vehicle so it got the Dracula sign. It ended up on my doorstep!

The instant remedy for me was to find one in the UK/Europe and that was my conclusion after calling a lot of pump shops locally and got a negative nodding dog syndrome.
Lucky I had used a pump shop for a similar pump shop in Oregon for the VW Diesel Jetta ALH engine, it too has a similar version but of course 4 cylinder type VE pump. So I shipped it to them. OK they had it for 6 weeks trying to get a test plan out of Bosch USA but eventually they came through and the truck went back into service. The pump repair charge was a reasonable $850 US.
The tourists rented a motor home and carried on touring
This allowed me to make a serious coin fixing it!--Fillet Minion was for dinner!
And I got a "Shoen & Dankeshoen".
Glad you got your pump sorted
Cheers & Best regards
Dennis

Seems karma has caught up with this turd

Blog

While I relish the opportunity to use my fist to drive this 's teeth down his throat, this'll do for now.

Interesting to read the delivery times from the UK in this thread. I've had to order parts/stuff from the UK a few times in the last eighteen months and the delivery times just keep getting longer. The last, a lightweight box (had a small sensor and a foam filter in it), took just over three weeks to arrive and it was sent by airmail. The previous, a vinyl badge that came in an ordinary envelope, was nearly as bad. Either they're using Tiger Moths for airmail or Australia Post is really killing delivery times once things get here.

I take it this stuff is tracked so you can tell how long the pommy stage takes compared to the Aus post stage? + are you factoring in the processing dispatching time etc ? I generally find 7-10 days to be the average across all formats once its indicated that the stuff has been mailed. Sometimes longer.
cheers,
D