Im glad it helped. Its a bit of work, but I guess after time it becomes something like an aquired skill and you get better at it, thus it get easier. We would hope.

 

Yeah, and by the sounds of it, if you do it lots you know everyone by name and it kind of becomes a routine. I just got off of the phone with AL from Courtney Agencies and hes the one that will be hiring to do the paper work. By the sounds of it the fastest this all can be done is over night since they do not allow same day pickup. So with me getting him to handle everything that will save me on hotel room costs and extra cab costs. He will be contacting me the day that he has the release form in his hand which means the car can go. So I will eather fly down later that day, or first thing the following day. This is definatly worth the $250+GST. If you lived in Van in might be worth doing yourself as you don't have hotel/cab costs, but for out of towners such as myself. Definatly not worth it.

Thanks once again Alak, that link made my decision much easier to make.

 

I am bored at work So I figured I will do a Tally of all of my expenses so far, and the Expenses that I am planning on having with a final talley at the end.

$1530 as a deposit before I can bid (150,000JPY)

$4250 purchase price of the car-deposit(575,000JPY-150,000JPY)

$1000 approx for shipping 100,000JPY

$275 customs broker fee ($250+GST)

$290 Duty (6.1%)
Duty and GST only applies to purchase price of the vehicle (575,000JPY- approx 100,000JPY broker fee for Jap used cars.
$285 GST (6%)

$100 A/C

$43 CFIA clearance

$10 Protect and terminal fees

$25 Abstract fe (not necissarily needed)

$150-$100 terminal fee (ill count it as $150 to be safe)

=

$7958 Total

And since I am most likely going to be going with a Roll on Roll of shipment the car will be cleared faster so I will avoid storage fees and a possible $350 for Drayage costs which are only applicable if shipped by container. I'm not too sure what has to occur for you to be charged that Drayage cost, but I'm not going to risk it.

If anyone can think of fees that I may have missed, or miss calculated please let me know. I tryed to go a little on the high side just to make sure I dont come up short.

 

FD under 10 grand thats running fine, is worth all the headache for a month imo

 

I'm hoping so. lol.

 

My heart will die a little everytime a ricer brings an FD over, disrespects it, does stupid ****, races it and blows it the **** up. FC I can understand, but an FD? That would be like driving a lambo thru a sand storm without air filters.

 

yeah, and the sad thing is that there will be alot of that happening. But don't you all worry, this FD will be my baby. i already have a DD so this thing will get nothing but the best treatment. Plus I hate riced out cars, so this will stay nice and clean.

 

Hey read through your post, just wanted to say good luck and hope it all goes through as planned. Enjoy her once you get it and treat her well!

shawn

 

Usually rice cars are civics, 'sup-ped' up but slow, even if an FD was riced up, after it passes you i doubt you would be worrying about the ricer, but the fact you can't keep up with it lol!

 

True, but part of the reason rice cars are mostly Civics is because they're cheap, and ricers are typically relatively young/poor/living with their mom's/all of the above. Relatively inexpensive FD's might change that a bit - but we can hope that because it's some work to get one imported, it'll still keep them out of the hands of wannabe mad drift kings with no sense of taste. Not having them show up in any more F&F movies will help!

 

if you have done it once you dont need a broker.. even if you get someone who has done it to help you.. can save some money....

i've peronsally brought in one.. 1989 Camaro with 36,000kms

a good friend of mine brought in 3

1978 mustang
1989 rover mini (Mr. Bean style)
1990 Nissan Skyline GTR with 64,000kms

and i know of a few others that have done it too few benz.. 300zx etc


its a fun drive back but i would def get any rotary checked out before i drove it 1100, kms nothing beats the open mountain roads at 3:00 am though :P


just so much fun...


Prôdigy

 

I have e-mailed rotary shop in northern Van to see if they would be able to check the car over for me and do some routine maintenance on the car aswell just to help ensure that I can make it home. I was thinking about doing it myself, but once I realised that you aren't able to get the car the same day that you file all of the paper work I figured it isn't worth it due to hotel costs and cab costs. I might save myself $50-$100 but I will also be away from home for longer and this will save me a big headache.

 

Let's hope for the best

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/173583

 

I hope that doesn't happen. Its funny. Shipping insurance is $50 and the only thing that it covers is the car sinking.

 

Well I just finally recieved my shipping/storage quote. I will be sending the money to them on Monday and I will post how much everything costs after the funds are converted to Canadian and I pay all fees involved with wiring the money to Japan.

 

omgomgomgomg congrats!!!

 

Just try and learn if it starts and runs...

We had a flatbed drop off a 2001 AMG E55 at the shop by a gent who bought the car from a auction in the US. I spent a few hours documenting the cosmetic condition and whatever electronics I could test. I came up with a two page report of problems including... the side curtain airbags had been removed and the holy-**** handles on all four corners GLUED back on to appear solid, and the three main computers in the car were missing. To get the car back to road-worthy and cosmetically acceptable shape it is going to cost about $24,000. Still not a bad deal considering he bought it with under 50K km for $18K USD. The car up here stickered for $125K.

Good luck! Keep us up to date!

 

I am not able to get too much of an mechanical inspection done on the car before purchasing it. Their company has people that go to the auction, listen to the car run, and do a visual inspection on the car before purchasing it, but other than that there is no other inpections done on the car. So it is a fairly risky situation.

 

this is my updated tally, the bold writting is my new costs.

 

I have just recieved an e-mail saying that my car will be leaving Japan May 1st. So I should have it landed by aruond the 10th and hopefully back home by the 14th or 15th depending on if they can get my car through customs before the week-end or not.

 

That's cool man. Nice of you to keep us updated even though some may not appreciate. Can't wait to see the pics.

 

It's no problem. I know alot of people on here are interested in importing a car so they mineswell learn from my experience. Also alot of people on here doubted me so in a way it will be nice to prove them wrong if all goes well. But if it doesn't work out that way I guess I'm not forced to man up to it. haha. I'll be sure to take tonnes of pictures when I get the car. I'm driving it back from Vancouver to Calgary so there will be tonnes of good picture oportunies.

 

I'm rootn' for you...

 

hmm out of curiousity. would they happen to ship it to the Halifax harbour?

 

Too bad it looks like you'll be 2 days late to come out to the Deefoot mall meet. If you happen to get it back by May 13 you've absolutely gotta come out to the meet!