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I'm from perth, and my car took less than a month to get on a ship.  

If your interested in a car, i can let you know that Mark Hocking is a pro, with getting cars on a ship. He even has a website http://www.mytrading.org/

Mark is very good and easy to deal with direct, he is the first person I recommend for buying in Japan even for first timers and only one of two we use.

The only other person I trust is Japanese so I only deal direct with him due to language and time differences and if one of the two cant inspect it we dont buy it.

Well, my situation got slightly delayed, it missed the boat for middle of feb, and left yokohama port on the 28 of FEB. Does anyone have a car leaving on that date as well in a container ship? i am trying to find out which boat my car is on, but there is only one boat that left yokohama and that is a car carrier??

RE2, sorry bro for late reply but my car was dealt with my frend, Raheem, he speciallises in imports 15 year old.

my car arrived today, some ass hat thought that it would be a good idea to reverse with the door open and let it hit something. the door has a dent and has been pushed into the front fender... apart from that its all good.

hehe, nice to see i'm not alone in the big wait to get my car from japan :P

i bought my car in november last year, and just saw her 2 weeks ago, got to take it for a spin round the warehouse and all hehe, where it is patiently waiting to be able to board a ship to OZ...damn it, now i've driven it i want it to arrive here quicker!

still waiting to get her an import approval, then it's straight on a boat...not long now, it's an April 1990 build so can apply for approval in 23 days now :) not that i'm counting...ahh, the joys of importing...hehe

Bought my car in November from Prestige destined for Fremantle Port. Arrived yesterday and waiting for it to clear through customs. I don't think any level of harassing will get your car in quicker. I believe it's all in chronological order from when you bought it. Remember the shipping is pre-paid the day you buy it.

Pre paid doesn’t mean you will get it quicker. Plus it depends on your supplier to where or where not he charges you prepaid, Like in my case he did, but I was also disappointed as when the B&L came in, I found out I had paid 250$ more than what it actually cost, and another guy, who bought a car from the same supplier in Japan 2 days after I had purchased mine, didn’t get charged pre paid freight on his invoice. Still got it cheaper than me, and he has a 300zx coming in which is slightly heavier and about one square meter more :rofl:

GotBoost our cars are on the same boat mines a r32 GTS-t. What’s yours?

Did you get yours through Mark Hocking?

my car is at yokohama or tokyo or somethin whats the shipping like out of there at the moment... missed the first boat due to a commumication failure and the second kiwi boat is loading now i bet i miss that one and from then on who knows....

yeah i'm pretty sure mine is also in tokyo, my car's missed the last few kiwi boats and i've been told by my broker that he is in the process of changing shipping companies due to the stuff around that kiwi has been giving him.

From what i understand, alot of the other shipping companies are been more efficient and quicker to getting cars outa japan then kiwi is at the momment, again i think mainly to the high demand at the momment and with kiwi's main boat still out of service.

For those who have had thier cars shipped in the last month or so, which shipping companies are you using to melbourne?

my mate works at toyota as a some sort of logistics guy and he got his test car rx-7 s5 in 10 days after arranging transport himself. goes to show that if you know what your doing it's hella easier and faster than relying on a broker. but then again thats what theyre paid to do. but the excuse of missing ships is laughable, especially if its been 3 months.

ha, turns out the dent in my door is gonna cost up to $2500 to fix... hinges are stuffed need to get the whole side resprayed to match colour properly....

gonna get another quote then lodge a claim.

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