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m3gtr Grand Master

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Guys im wondering if i can get some advice on this. Ive found a red MR evo wagon id like to stitch up but something is bugging me.

The car comes with 3 years left on the factory warranty but if im exporting the thing to Australia next year, what can i do to secure a warranty for the car there? I understand this may be a dumb question but ive honestly no idea what procedures there are for this type of thing.

Does Mitsubishi transfer warranties? I know Nissan do...

What are my options, if any?

m3gtr Grand Master

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Warranties are only valid in the country of sale.

I was told Nissan will transfer warranties? Was i being told porkie pies?

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sewid Grand Master

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You can get a warranty for any pile of s... you want. They're called aftermarket warranties and they are worth precisely 0% of the paper they are written on so you may as well just piss on a pile of cash to the value of the warranty and call it a day.

m3gtr Grand Master

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Okay...now im really confused...

You can add a warranty to my privately imported Evo wagon? I pay $795 and im covered to a certain degree by your company?

*edit* I need to add ( ask ) that i will be bringing this car in as a personal import, i.e, owned and driven in Japan for a year and then exported into oz...

Is this possible..for example do you have a place in Sydney or Adelaide that can cover it?

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Beer Baron Grand Master

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I was told Nissan will transfer warranties? Was i being told porkie pies?

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yeah they transfer warranty within the country of sale. like if hiroshi in saitama sells his R35 GTR to kazu in shibuya then yeah you can transfer the warranty. but it's not international mate. no company would do that. so the answer to how can I get a warranty for my personal import is "you can't".

SEVS imports are often warrantied by the importing RAW. but for personal import you are on your own.

sl33py Mentor

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There are companys you can approach to provide a warranty on your car for an initial cost (I believe). One example is the Australia Wide Warranty Network www.aswn.com.au

Having said that, the quality of those kind of warranties really depends on the local workshop who they mandate will do any repair work. Plus you need to keep regular service records (which is fine for myself, but when someone is telling me I HAVE to, it's annoying :P ).

I should have haggled money off the price of my car, because the locals who support the 'warranty' are a pack of cheating, lying mongrels who I wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole. :whistling:

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