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    Importing Costs

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    ahhhhhhhh well that makes sense then =)

    well yeah - steam cleaning may or may not leave you with a clean / rock free car - and it may leave you with a bit less money in your wallet :)

    hope your importing experience has been a smooth sailed one (wow... excuse the pun) and welcome to the forums! :)

    edit: wait what??? customs guy you're dealing with??? why are YOU dealing with customs? are you self-importing? or going through a broker..

    and why is a customs officer quoting you on anything??

    see this is what shat me about importing... everyone wants to throw in their two cents about something that didn't concern them - i got told by a (nameless) RAWS mechanic that i would have NO hope in HELL of getting my car registered if it's been complied over east.. and was told that unless i brought the car into him FIRST THING when i get it so that he could work on it - i'd have no hope of getting registration.

    ..if he has that opinion then fine, but registration is not up to him? so why did he go off his tree at me for choosing not to register in WA?

    Hahaha thanks mate. I actually went through a company called Prestige motorsport. The guy who runs it lives in Perth and I'm in Syd. He - himself was actually quite good in regards to being prompt in replying and has always kept me updated. Although now I'm dealing directly with the compliance workshop (in syd) that I've been referred to as well as the Custom's agent who is taking care of my car. Tho the customs agent so far hasn't been that great.. So yeah, hoping I won't be running into any dodgy "double steam cleaning" garbage. Btw, I've got a couple of friends who have gone through this and they told me they found Japanese lollies + jap condoms in their cars after they got it back hahahaha did you find any of that stuff besides rocks and dirt :P

    Importing Costs

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    ^^^what he said.. not that im angry at the steam cleaning guy - i'm happy to pay money to a small business - what im saying is - it failed first inspection because it needed "steamcleaning" then passed the second inspection..

    soooooooooooooo if it passed the second inspection with rocks and foreign sand and everything - then it should have passed the first time - clearly this second inspection is just fees from AQIS. (my opinion)

    and as you said - tax on a tax..

    but.. in reality - if i get my car that i'm absolutely happy with and totally in love with with all it's porny goodness and high spec'd features... and get it for a price lower than what i'd otherwise pay for a toyota yaris.. then australia's import system cant really be that bad.. :)

    oh, side note - 7grand AUD car cost for a 180sx seems a bit steep for me? i haven't seen the car obviously but a majority of the 180sx's are graded R and don't fetch much :P

    EDIT FOR QUICKDRAW MCGRAW!!!! ^^^

    the what he said was at mister ironchef..

    as for you, mister.. can you please elaborate what you mean by "customs shops"???

    that seems a bit suss.. are you sure you know what you're saying when you say "customs shops"? are you sure you're not saying $7K for:

    shipping from japan RORO

    taxes + GST

    aqis + Customs

    steam clean

    towing

    compliance

    ???

    Haha I'm at work and I'm pretty lazy when I type... but yes the costs come from all of the above (shipping, towing, "steam cleaning" etc - Though compliance was actually quoted about $2200 and the other 7k quote was from the custom guy I'm dealing with. Ripped off?

    Importing Costs

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    I'm looking at importing something (thinking 180sx, r32, r33, haven't really decided yet) and so I've been researching tax, GST, shipping, and all that other stuff.

    With "Carizma" as my source, there is a 10% GST, and a 10% import tax (http://carizma.com.au/Pages/Import%20-%20Regulations.htm)

    It costs roughly $1000 to ship a car, and an additional $200 for insurance (http://carizma.com.au/Pages/Import%20-%20Shipping.htm)

    I've found a nice, clean, late model 180sx for less than $7000 AUD on "Tradecarview" (http://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/nissan/180sx/4929207/)

    So all this will cost around $9600, which is a pretty good price I reckon.

    Thing is, this seems too small a price to pay. I've been looking around on SAU and they say there are other costs that cost several thousand dollars.

    FOR WHAT?!

    Anyone who has experience/knowledge on this topic, please share your wisdom!

    Thanks everyone :P

    Btw, yeah you're just looking at the real base fee's... There are a lot of other things you need to take into account from my personal experience. Not sure how tradecarview works although some of the fee's are: Buyers fee (from the auction) was about 100k yen and compliance (for me was $2200) which is actually a pretty good price considering there are a sh*t load of dodgy workshops out there that may not do a good job + customs which is usually where it gets ya.

    This is from the research I've done + what I'm looking at paying next week.

    Anyways, hope that helps.

    Importing Costs

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    checking whether it needs steam cleaning of foreign dirt - let's not lie..

    customs / quarrantine etc are basically the government leg of australia's stitched up secretive corrupt lucrative shipping industry..

    case in point my soarer was inspected n paid for, them steam cleaned, then re-inspected and re-paid for..

    i get the car and there's japanese rocks n sand n god knows what still in the car - no work was done.. it was just fees.

    sorry to make such a swooping generalisation but yeah - they charge you the fees they want to charge you to do no work what so ever - and because it's government we have no choice BUT to pay it..

    so - we pay for these fees then we take our cars and try to screw a RAWS down on the cost of our vehicle compliance.. irony?

    Mate I honestly hope this isn't the case with all the Customs shops. I just imported my 05 v35 and it gets here next week, they've quoted me around 7k for the customs rubbish

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