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As a newbie to buying off shore, say a secondhand Discovery from Japan.
Anyone use custom Brokers? In the case of your spare parts again how does one organize importing through customs. :(

Cheers jono

you can import anything under $1000 value fairly easy. once you go over that there are alot of fee's that require paying. jump on the customs website for a better look.

cheers phil

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Originally Posted by discowhite

you can import anything under $1000 value fairly easy. once you go over that there are alot of fee's that require paying. jump on the customs website for a better look.

cheers phil

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Thanks for the lead...I found I'm unable to import a Land Rover no later than 1988, so thats a dead end. Turns out that what we have here is well priced anyway. On $1000 or less sounds great for spares...:D

jono

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Originally Posted by discowhite

small spree:twisted:
im bringing in a set if silicon hoses, a half length cargo barrier, cross drilled/slotted front disc's, front pads, front and rear headlight/tail light guards all landed for 800aud...now in aust a half length cargo barrier is over $450 + freight...and dont get me started on the price of the light guards:mad:
ive saved quite a bit.

cheers phil

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Gday Phil, did you get all that from 1 place ?
Did they organise shipping or you, the Disc's and pads sound good I need to replace all 4 of my Disc's..You can PM me there name if you dont want to post it up here.

Cheers and Thanks Ean

it should probably go in the recomended suppliers?
but all i can say about lrseries.com is brilliant.

that list is all from the one place and they organise all the freight, UPS. everything i have got so far has arrived in under 7 days.

really good stock list too!

cheers phil

I got a pair of Firestone Coil-Rite airbags from Truckspring this week.
I've even fitted them already :)

I'll be keeping my eye out for other stuff too.

I want some flares for my D1, anyone know of a good place in the USA to get them from. The pommies are well priced but the delivery is expensive. I am hoping it might be cheaper from the US.

any leads appreicated ;)

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I got a pair of Firestone Coil-Rite airbags from Truckspring this week.
I've even fitted them already :)

I'll be keeping my eye out for other stuff too.

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yes ours are on the way also:D

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yes ours are on the way also:D

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I had to trim the supplied top coil mount thingys to get them to go up into the hole. I also made some bottom spacers from plastic cutting boards which you will have to do too as I presume you have lifted springs.

Other than that it was pretty straight forward and they have performed flawlessly for two days now :D

They took seven days to my door (5 business days).

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Originally Posted by Utemad

I had to trim the supplied top coil mount thingys to get them to go up into the hole.

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I also made some bottom spacers from plastic cutting boards which you will have to do too as I presume you have lifted springs.

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Other than that it was pretty straight forward and they have performed flawlessly for two days now :D

They took seven days to my door (5 business days).

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no we dont have lifted springs they are going in the back of the defender which is standard...how ever we were still told by a friend that we need to do this