Thread: uk imported vehicle

Originally Posted by garrycol

Hmmm no as Daddy would have to take the vehicle back with him when he leaves - there is is huge bond that travellers have to pay when they bring the vehicle in and if they leave and do not take the vehicle then that bond is lost.

Get Daddy to take out citizenship and all is good. .

Garry

Ahh bless the dual citizenship. Although what happens when such incidents happens as most recent in the cricket...what side do you get on. The winning one of course!

Originally Posted by crawal

Some one was telling me the cheap way is to buy a vehicle from the UK and import it here.
Car Sales has such a vehicle - good value for a HSE
2008 Land Rover Discovery 3 Series 3 HSE 08MY Sports Automatic

Has any one done this or looked at the costings ?

Buy that one, all the work has been done, cars already here.

Besides, local car of the same spec would be around the same price once all the shipping and other costs are added, not to mention all the bull**** you have to go through.

Baz.

There's also the consideration of how rusted all the bolts will be on a UK car. I lost count of the number of times that I was doing a job over the weekend and needed more hacksaw blades to get rid of a few awkward bolts, usually just after closing time!

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

This isn't allowed I believe. Also I am not convinced it would work. When I brought mine over under the scheme I had to prove I was in the country with the car, and that it was legally in use for the full 12 months prior.

Photocopies of every page of my passport for instance, along with insurance documents etc on the car.

Simply buying a car and storing it for 12 months will not meet the requirements.

This ^^^^^

I brought my RRS over a little under 2 years ago, but I've owned it for nearly 5 years now so met all the criteria. No changes are needed to the car to meet aus rules, Land Rovers are one of the very few European cars that need no additional modifications to meet the relevant standards (much to the annoyance of the engineers who need to sign off the paperwork).

I'd do it again, the paperwork isn't that much of a hassle. It's the import duties that are annoying when you've owned a car for so long, along with the scam that is port side steam cleaning. Don't get me started on that

Originally Posted by Mike_S

This ^^^^^

I'd do it again, the paperwork isn't that much of a hassle. It's the import duties that are annoying when you've owned a car for so long, along with the scam that is port side steam cleaning. Don't get me started on that

Don't get me started on the port guys.

We had wheels, steering wheels, gauges, body kits, inter-coolers and all sorts stolen off some of the cars when we bought them in from Japan.
A few guys in QLD were tracked down and um err reported to the police as they were selling the parts on Ebay.
My car had the GTR Mats, steering wheel, boost guage and rear strut brace pinched.

Originally Posted by rb30gtr

Don't get me started on the port guys.

When I brought my Jag in, it had the burgular alarm stolen. They had to deliberately go looking for it at it was well up under the dash and not visible at all.

I know it was taken when on the wharf at Pyrmont in Sydney as part of its security features was the car would not start if removed and the car was driven to its spot on the wharf.

I had to pick up the car at Pyrmont and drive it across Sydney to Botany to have it steam cleaned for quarantine and it would not start. Connect wiring back to standard and I was able to drive it dropping quarantinable pests all over the roads of Sydney.