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Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Wed, 02 June 2004 11:40
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I'll be finshed school soon...so i'm gonna work full time for awhile to buy a car.
I've been looking at imports and asking myself 'is it worth it?...is it cheaper? worth the trouble?'
I would like to gather abit of info before i do anything so any helpful input would be greatly appeciated.
I was looking at this site, the cars are so cheap!
http://home.iprimus.com.au/jverban//
Anybody dealt with them before???
this is wut i'm thinking.
1989 NISSAN 180SX turbo 5 spd 82,000 black ($6900uncomplied)
+shipping (?)
+tax(?)
+complience (i have a workshop i can go to)
Any info would be helpful!!!!!!
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I supported Toymods
Location:
sydney.au
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August 2002
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Fri, 04 June 2004 01:42
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Rules have changed since 30 April, Dept of Heritage and Environment got involved and you'll need clearance in english of the type of A/C gas approved BEFORE it gets here ie get it removed, changed or a cert saying it's R134a.... Real prick. And if it does get here, don't expect to get it off the wharves without.... this was done to cut the imports down and effects ALL cars... My FX-GT has sat in quarratine for the past month due to this and I bought it over there on the 25 April... complete B&^%!@$t I've gone through.... but I do pick it up sometime today 
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sydney
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May 2004
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Sat, 12 June 2004 14:35
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thankz guys, helped alot!
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perth WA
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June 2004
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Thu, 17 June 2004 12:13
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Have a look at PRESTIGEMOTORSPORT.COM.AU He has good articles and is more than happy to have a chat to you to see what your after and whats availiable. Also there is an import cost calculator which will give you a good idea on import costs and duty's to be paid.
Cheers
Jeff
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Fri, 18 June 2004 08:10
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I'd strongly suggest you look into insurance before you buy an import as your first car out of school.
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Adelaide, SA
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May 2002
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Tue, 22 June 2004 04:18
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I second that. Insurance will be nightmare on an imported car, esp turbo. It could cost you more to insure it over a few years than you paid for the car.
Australian delivered still carries a lot of weight in the Insurance business - for example the guy who bought my ma70 (australian delivered) with 1jz conversion actually pays less to insure it (as a modified car) than he was paying for his much less powerful but grey import Ga70 (1g-gte).
Why waste so much money just to get the car you want but don't need.
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Newcastle
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June 2002
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Re: Imports! Your thoughts, experience, information?
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Fri, 09 July 2004 19:39
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remember information provided by import web sites is shonky. They want you to use them as the middleman so they will tell you that it is far to difficult to import yourself.
It is easy to import a 15YO+ car. Just do some research. DO NOT PAY SOMEONE HEAPS to do a little bit of running around for you.
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