15 Yr Old Car

[PurpleR32]

DOTARS are/were not accepting import approvals till before Jan 01, so its risky business if Jspec are bringing in 15 unapproved cars.

i agree. applications can only be submitted on or after 1st jan. DOTRS then take the mandatory 3 weeks to return the very simple application. As it is on a case by case basis, you also have to prove the car was fully paid for by the cutoff date as well. Only after you have the import aproval should you put it on a boat.

[funkymonkey]

they've got some contacts inside and last I heard they had the whole 10 cars sorted out. Its not a great deal of em, some of em are 1988 just arriving on the same ship. Come to think of it, most of em are RX7's n this pimped out Roll Royce

[ecenshu]

DOTARS are/were not accepting import approvals till before Jan 01, so its risky business if Jspec are bringing in 15 unapproved cars.

This is the reason why my car won't be laving Japan till mid January(estimate) and might actually be later. I am getting so impatient now...waiting....waiting

[jake32]

they've got some contacts inside and last I heard they had the whole 10 cars sorted out. Its not a great deal of em, some of em are 1988 just arriving on the same ship. Come to think of it, most of em are RX7's n this pimped out Roll Royce

what a load of crap !!!! contacts inside...j - spec have nothing of the sort...they will wait in the line like the rest of us I doubt if any 89 models will have import approvals before end of jan/early feb and cars should not be shipped till then or face the prospect of having them re-exported ...a freind of mine had 3 cars re exported because import approvals had not been issued before they arrived ...approvals arrived 3 days after cars did and they still made them send cars on round trip back to jp >bris

just a note my dealings with j-spec i found VERY difficult...you can get many answers for the same ? from these guys

[BIGBLOCKR31COUPE]

Car looks phat.

[funkymonkey]

they've got some contacts inside

that was sarcasm u tool... read what the rest of the post says before shooting your top off... 1988... but I know for a fact that they're looking at getting about 10-15 cars in under the exemption. Dunno when tho.

jake so you've imported thru j-spec then?

[jake32]

you'd be surprised... only a select few cars got in under the overlap period (where u can bring it into the country in jan) thanks to most people's hesitance to commit and confidence in the system. Whoever buys a 15 yr old car after Oct 8 2003 or thereabouts has to wait till the car reaches 15 yrs to the closest month. And in that time legislation can be passed to change the laws further. However then the same overlap will occur where if they show proof of purchase they'll be allowed entry under the old scheme (current scheme).

R32's came into production late in the year and finding a first run R32 is pretty hard... so don't expect more like yours to be in the country till at least Sept-Oct.

so these are 1988 models your talking about ?.. tosser

[funkymonkey]

you should know that R32's din start their production run till 1989...

[funkymonkey]

DOTARS are/were not accepting import approvals till before Jan 01, so its risky business if Jspec are bringing in 15 unapproved cars.

Maybe I worded that wrong... it should of read "applying for exemption" which is what I meant by "bringing in".