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We recently built a new car using new parts in a bio sealed level 1 containment lab, located 1 mile under ground, all staff were sealed on site until the rebuild was complete, the car was then sealed in a vacuum container, and encased in 1 meter of Reinforced concrete, and irradiated just for good measures,
Upon arrival to Australia , customs requested the car to be cleaned 3 times. As it was dirty. :wasntme:
Tossers, the lot of them.... Pen pushers and job worths, ahhhhhhhhhhhh
An update to the sage:
First garage said the turbos were shot - I disagreed, since they were working fine when we drove the car into the container before shipping. He wanted $5000 to fix them.
Took the car to another garage - Kevin, who was recommended on here. His diagnostics said the egrs are faulty. Fair enough, since I've had them cleaned once before when the car was Tanzania. He changed them (part in Aus aren't cheap, for sure!), cleared faults and the fault light went off. Only to come on again a few metres down the road. Back in the garage, decided to put in a new battery - RESULT! Fault light gone, and today passed the inspection. Just waiting for compliance plate and registration now.
So seems only damage caused by the quarantine pressure washing/ steam cleaning is a torn sound deadener - the one stuck on the underneath of the bonnet.
Wish I had insisted they change the battery (see first post!) before they started putting in new parts, but the old egrs were a bit knackered, to be fair.
You should soon see a white TDV8 running around Perth!
Quarantine steam cleaning... I actually saw how it happened when I brought an old Porsche in from the UK last year. Basically a few wharfies pull out the gerney in a cleaning bay surrounded by tin sheets. Same stuff you do at the car wash for $10-
It seems to me to be one of those things they always do... Perhaps as an excuse for keeping the boys busy on a Friday arvo and maybe to raise a bit of beer money from private importers.
Funnily enough, my P car was stripped down for refresh when I got it home and there was massive amounts of organic material (dirt, plant and insect) through out! I would not suggest challenging the process though, better to pay a few hundred for the silly business of cleaning than have delays and storage fees added.
New batteries , spark plugs , radio valves ........... all a "first go" ,
before paying anyone to guess , at your considerable expense.
It's a gouging ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by DT-P38;1556153.
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Originally Posted by Mike_S
My first skyline from NZ was trucked across sydney to be cleaned.
having being cleaned in NZ.both cost $100.
it looked exactly the same as it left christchurch and had a dirty woolen jumper stuffed behind the headlight used to wipe the dipstick.
the other came straight through---both had be impounded for noncence reasons.
a few gents I know got aqis aproved so they could unload containers on site and save bucket loads in handling fees.
a neighbour used to import tractors from england-they had been fully stripped and painted and shipped in parts as they had to be repainted here again.I heard of a few trucks having issues due to the chemicals pumped through the chasis for cleaning and my neighours story sounded similar.the neighbour started exporting builders hiluxes to the UK and now has retired.