Moving to Australia and bringing the Disco

[Daisy Driver]

Sorry if this is not in the right place. We are planning a move to Australia in August. Our Disco has 90k miles and is on the original clutch and exhaust. We've had her since '07 at 22k miles. Only faults to date have been a duff clutch master, injector loom and the parking sensors threw a wobbly last week. The car is clean and (almost unmarked) and if we weren't moving we would be keeping her for at least the forseeable. With lots of kids we need a 7 seater. Cars in Australia appear to be expensive by comparison so importing ours is beginning to look attractive. Does anyone have experience or thoughts about this? Are there any Australians (or ex pats) with thoughts or experience about this?

[bee utey]

Some recent info here:

My visa has been granted !

[twodoors]

Greetings,

Our biggest regret was NOT bringing over our 'fleet' of vehicles!!!

I came over with a group of 80.... WE ALL REGRET NOT BRINGING OUR CARS OVER....

That said look at the cost of shipping said vehicle... If it goes in a container with your households they WILL NOT fill the car with personal stuff... ( so don't think it as an easy way of shipping stuff) Approx £2500 - 3500 we were quoted..

Allow a couple of Aus$ grand for tax/rego/adr compliance etc..

Vehicle will need some mods... child seat restraints/speedo.. also car will need to be totally de-gassed aircon wise.

Now work out what you can sell your truck for over there...

THEN google over here and do a price comparison of what you can get...

The selection of vehicles from state to state varies quite a lot...

Transfering ownership between states will cost you a %age value of the declared value of car!!!!Best to buy in the state you are living...

HOWEVER you will be bringing a car you know the ins and outs of and that may well be worth $4000 in itself....

If you do bring over make sure It is fully serviced and ALL the BIG SERVICE ITEMS / CONSUMABLES ie Discs/Pads/clutch/Maf/Fuel Pump... (Make sure No leaks....) are done over there as prices are a fraction there compared to here.... Also big tyres/snorkel/lift etc stuff...(paid $225 for a britparts dog guard here....£150ish... UK listing is £56!!!!!) You may already be friends with Rimmer Bros,Paddocks,Craddocks RPI V8 Engineering make them relatives before you do the move!!

As I said it may have cost us just over / equal what we 'have' here BUT it would have been less in the long run...

Hope this helps

WE moved over here with Ridgeways... VERY VERY GOOD.

Give us a shout if I can assist further....

P.S Bring everything you can!!! There isn't a Screwfix /B+Q here!!

James

[Milkman Dan]

There are a couple of threads I believe around about personal importing.

Good luck.

[jerryd]

A move I'm sure you won't regret for you or your family I opted out of bringing our Landrover with us as you can find good rust free examples here, although with the dollar rate as it is, it might be in your favour to bring it with you.
Good luck with the move

[p38arover]

Unless it is totally rust free, I wouldn't bother. Getting rid of rust is expensive and you will need to do that to register them here.

Rust free vehicles are easy to find here. When I sold my '86 Rangie in 2002, it was like new on the chassis - not a trace of rust.

[blackbuttdisco]

There is no pound or dollar cost to the hassles that can occur. Moving is a big enough job and traumatic anyway. Make life easier for yourselves, buy a LR in Oz. You can still buy your parts from UK and you will not pay UK VAT! So you save 20%.

[muddymech]

That said look at the cost of shipping said vehicle... If it goes in a container with your households they WILL NOT fill the car with personal stuff... ( so don't think it as an easy way of shipping stuff) Approx £2500 - 3500 we were quoted..

we were allowed to fill 90 when we bought it over from uk. only space i left was for driver.
might depend on which shipping company u use.
ian

[twodoors]

we were allowed to fill 90 when we bought it over from uk. only space i left was for driver.
might depend on which shipping company u use.
ian

All I can say is as we found/were told at the time.... Its not to do with the company BUT the authorities... The car is supposed to be removed and taken to bonding,pending the checks etc immediately and items NOT to be separated from it...... Unless legislation has changed... again differing states.. different countries!!!.. And Law.....

James

[twodoors]

There is no pound or dollar cost to the hassles that can occur. Moving is a big enough job and traumatic anyway. Make life easier for yourselves, buy a LR in Oz. You can still buy your parts from UK and you will not pay UK VAT! So you save 20%.

Again advised 2 others to bring over and they 'cleaned' the car... drove it into the box. Forgot about it for 4 weeks... Made an appointment for checks.. Made an appointment at the fix it garage and another vehicle check immediately after. Waited 3 weeks.... Turned up with jump pack spent 6 hrs with check, ADR alterations and re-check paid their money and drove home....

Trauma Nil

BIG Smiles - LOTS

Again do your research in advance... Life is then easy and potentially cheaper than taking on an unknown bag of nails... Especially as they have known their car from as good as Birth....


AND again it would appear he is talking about a Disco from 2006ish and won't need to worry over rust anyway...

James