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Also have a read of http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...967#post1359967 nOOSE recommended that I should post what I had written up there, here but its long and I don’t know how relevant it is to this thread, If you guys reckon it is, let me know and ill post it here. But it is worth the read!

I would strongly advised against installing intrusion bars yourself, you can serious mess the way your metal and paint work runs on the doors. This is commonly the problem with professional jobs, and they are the pro, and it still looks shit. I can speak for myself, that the guys at Jap Part did my car you can’t even tell it has intrusion bars. Make sure you ask him to see if they can rivet them in, and not weld them in. Welding can cause rapid rust development if it isn’t properly prepped, and this has been documented in quiet a few compliance FAQs. And incase your worried you can’t even see the rivets as they are hidden under the door sealing rubber. Phils Mechanical also does complaincing and does intrustion bars, and I’m sure both of these guys will sell you intrusion bars if requested. His contact details are as follows Phone: 08 9493 3069 Email: [email protected] Plus he is a SAU forum member his ID is Philmech, Just make sure you mention you got his details of SAU as referred to you by Andrew, he also knows to look after us. But hey I would strongly recommended against doing it yourself, you got to remember that these guys have to sign off the engineers report, and if your workmanship isn’t up to there standard, it makes it very hard for them to sign off on it, as it is there arse on the line if the shit hits the wall, and a major FINE and loss of RAW.

Oh also, another quick point. I would strongly advised against installing intrusion bars yourself, you can serious mess the way your metal and paint work runs on the doors. This is commonly the problem with professional jobs, and they are the pro, and it still looks shit. I can speak for myself, that the guys at Jap Part did my car you can’t even tell it has intrusion bars. Make sure you ask him to see if they can rivet them in, and not weld them in. Welding can cause rapid rust development if it isn’t properly prepped, and this has been documented in quiet a few compliance FAQs. And incase your worried you can’t even see the rivets as they are hidden under the door sealing rubber. Phils Mechanical also does complaincing and does intrustion bars, and I’m sure both of these guys will sell you intrusion bars if requested. His contact details are as follows Phone: 08 9493 3069 Email: [email protected] Plus he is a SAU forum member his ID is Philmech, Just make sure you mention you got his details of SAU as referred to you by Andrew, he also knows to look after us. But hey I would strongly recommended against doing it yourself, you got to remember that these guys have to sign off the engineers report, and if your workmanship isn’t up to there standard, it makes it very hard for them to sign off on it, as it is there arse on the line if the shit hits the wall, and a major FINE and loss of RAW.

yeh Temp permits covers you for third party, but hey this can be costly, make sure you plan yourself out, as permits only last for 48 hours, you got to plan yourself out, so you can get the most done in that 48 hours, I believe by the time I finished I had spent nearly 100$ on permits. But I just under estimated myself and general hold ups. You might want to try and get your insurance company to give you a cover note over this too, I managed to squeeze one out of my insurance company which I heard isn’t a common thing for an unregistered vehicle. Just be friendly and sweet talk them hey. All you need is your import approval and you will get your Permit to move you car. When they ask you what you are doing, just say to them, you got to drive it around to get it compliance for putting over the pits. That way when they type it up, they leave it open for you to move it all over Perth in means of compliance, I know one person who told them exactly from and too suburb he was moving it from, and yeh that is exactly what they typed on the temporary permit.

Hey guys. The two best places to get your car compliance in Perth is, Jap Parts and Autoworx, but be careful, I would highly recommend Jap Parts as I have used them before, and they saved me ALOT money with letting me borrow stuff. You can even use my Name Andrew when you talk to them, they know to look after SAU forum members, ask for Rajesh I also used Brett Rayner, as my Custom Broker, the guy is a champion, I got my car first before most of the people that had cars on the same boat as me, plus he got my car released without any of that air conditioner crap they make you go through... This guy will go the distance for you if you only ask, ask nicely as he is a top bloke. Also his rates will blast away anything that other local import brokers will recommended, and he only charges a service fee, and everything else is at cost, you even get the cost on what it cost from customs. How cool and honest is that. I know a lot of people what got burnt going to custom agents [not brokers] getting over charged especially given the lack of personal service. I would highly discourage driving your car from the docks, if your car has been waiting in Japan for a considerable amount of time, my car hadn’t been waiting in Japan for that long less than a month, but then again my ride wasn’t a common GTS-t. I got it taken home, with 'Lightning Tow" He has a tilt truck, and he knows how to get low riding cars like mine, mine was like 5-7mm off the ground when i got it, onto his truck without it bottoming them out. This guy is good and comes at a very good rate, did me a cash deal i couldn’t of gotten any cheaper else where, his number is 0408 935 818. You can try and jog his memory, who I am, but I don’t think he will remember, Just say it was a very nice looking burgundy r32 skyline which he towed back in March. If your car has been waiting in Japan for a while, it is advisable to do a complete fluid change when you get it. This can be done by you, rather cheap, as your not getting charged labor. When it came to doing my own compliance, I started out with all enthusiasm, but that was short lived, I found it very hard to find parts, as per example, Repco or Supercheap couldn’t even help me out with fuel filler restrictors or child restraints brackets, (which unfortunately have to be mounted over your rear spear speakers, just under the speaker covers). But I did do my own, mirrors, which cost me 30$ :-/ I thought it was expensive, but its so easy to do, you will find a screw underneath your driver side mirror, which will release the mirror and electronic motor gear. Then it’s as simple as detaching the mirror from the motor which is just clipped in, and taking that mirror to a replacement glass place, they will replace it for you. After this I just decided it wasn’t worth driving around all over Perth for looking for gear to compliance my car myself at the cheapest prices, so I just took it to Jap Parts, Which was the best decision I made. A little about Jap Parts. Jap Parts is located 5-7 Jade Street Maddington WA, They have a new website up at http://www.jappartswa.com.au/ . The best thing about this crowd is that they will only quote on each and every individual part that needs to be done to get them to sign it off, So you wont get a quote for the complete compliance job like most other place will do, only what you haven’t already done, which makes it a real good thing for those who want to spend time working on there cars themselves. You will find most place will get really annoyed if you rock up with the job already half done, cause to them they see it as your wasting there time, they are trying to make money of you and your car, the more they 'have' to do, the 'more' time and parts they can charge. Another point I will recommend is not to mention the import broker you bought your car from when inquiring about getting your car compliance, as insider information, says it’s not uncommon for these import brokers to get a referral fee for the business, which is of course covered in what you will be charge. This is a rather big problem in this import industry and it affects us guys when we purchase our cars. Its fcuked, as when we pay broker fees, we pay a fee to get the best and utter most reliable information possible, but, all seriousness it comes down to what they do to maximize there profits, not what’s best for us, and yeah that is fcuked, but its all apart of business. You’re just another customer to them. Just remember this information I give you, I don’t get anything out of it, I do it, to put those who make money out of us, to shame. All this information is from experience, not just from me, but from a group of people who went through the same as I did, when I got my car compliance, but through different crowds. They even got there cars in on the last car shipment back in March. By the way feel free to do a search on all my profile to find all post I posted when I was going through the same thing you all are going through. Anyway I hope this helps some of you, I did spend a bit of time typing it so I just hope its not too confusing. Andrew

Try Jap Parts www.jappartswa.com.au I borrowed a seat of them for getting my car over the pits, They have a whole Rack of seats from the floor to the roof and the roof is high you need a fork lift.

Sounds great PSI-GTSII, Yes your car did make the boat. Well done. I got my car on the March boat that came into Fremantle, and went through it all getting it on the road and all. Drop me a PM if you’re interested in recommendations and advice. You will be going through ALOT with what, a group of us who had our cars come in on the last boat, went through.

Hey don’t know if Josh Frank is apart of Xspeed or if anyone here is affiliated with them. But does anyone know if they can do a PowerFC tune. I don’t have the hand commander.

ITs still there dont worry, you can see it through the FTP Im looking into it now.

Test it yourself, on both of the ftp's. I wouldnt know as im on dailup. But i would like to know what the second/mirror FTP is averaging.

Host: ftp.andrew.ihostingonline.com User name: [email protected] Password: skylinesaustralia ONLY download from this HTTP Link. http://andrew.ihostingonline.com/manuals Thus keeping the available logins for up loaders Upload only to the upload directory and once upload is complete it is your RESPONSIBILITY to move files to the home directory, for people to download with the HTTP link.

So so so true.

No worries

SideWaysChef Hey, my car is getting compliance by Jap Parts, now located in Maddington WA. I myself did some of the D.I.Y compliance. But in the end, I decided to take it to Rajesh @ Jap Parts, as my car was fairly unique. I was referred to him and have found him to be great for those who do there own compliance work, as when he quotes on each car, he doesn’t just quote on a job! He quotes on every individual part that needs to be done in the end for him to sign off on it for ADR. Give Rajesh a call on 9493 2191. Tell him I (Andrew), from Skylines Australia Forum sent you, and he will look after you. He pretty much already knows to look after the SAU family. So all will be good. Anyway let me know how it goes. Andrew

erm ok i beleive you. Ill get those people to install an updated version of adobe viewer thing what you call it.

Guys please upload only to the upload directly. And once it is uploaded then and only then transfer it to the Home Directory. Because I had 2 people PMing me, saying this isn’t working. I have moved those 2 files to uploads. Cubes can you finish uploading them, they a meg or so to go. Let me know.

Ok new ftp mirror, Host: ftp.andrew.ihostingonline.com User name: [email protected] Password: skylinesaustralia ONLY download from this HTTP Link. http://andrew.ihostingonline.com/manuals Thus keeping the available logins for up loaders Upload only to the upload directory and once upload is complete it is your RESPONSIBILITY to move files to the home directory, for people to download with the HTTP link.

Erm ill try and arrange a mirror FTP. and will allow people to upload and download and it wont go away even have http download

yes Car carrier. roll on roll off. ie drive on drive off.

It’s the import community this forum has plus it’s Australian, plus it’s the right demographic in catering to there means.

Out of interest what is your suppliers name and business in Japan, and did you pay Prepaid Freight? Speak to your broker about this shipping option and see if he can arrange to share a container for you, and yes you would get it quicker, than a RORO. Also another thing that helps sometimes is to actually ring your supplier up in Japan (don’t leave it to your broker, as its properly friendly talk when they communicate with each other, you know keeping a healthy business relationship). I have known people to actually ring there supplier many times during the week the boat is schedule to leave. Say a mehod of ringing, once a week before, again 2 days before the boat leaves, and again on the day it leaves. Just hope he can speak English. But you properly be amazed at what this communication can do in getting your car on the water. I believe it’s worth a try, who knows what favors he could pull his end.

5ky did you buy through a broker? Because you live in Sydney you will find a container won’t be that expensive, from what I’ve read other people are paying for them compared to a roro ship. I would recommend you, find someone to share a container with, share the cost. Your broker will be able to guide you on this, that’s if you purchased through a local broker. Good luck.

www.mytrading.org No more to ask, Highly recommend, save your 1100$ and go direct with him. I bought through him and got my car off the port here in Fremantle 40 days later, not 9 months like I continually read else where. Especially though that English teacher who deals part time on the weekend. Hell I talk to people who have been waiting 2 weeks for there bill of lading from that same dealer, even after there car has been off loaded from the ship 2 weeks ago. Don’t wait to long, Mark Hocking at www.mytrading.org is highly recommended. But if you are seriously about this, PM me your msn I can help you out with the information you need to know, I gone through this before, and have all the info you need, plus I’m in constant communication with people in the industry. I don’t do it for money, I do it to put those who make 1100$ out of us small timers to shame.

Hey I need to obtain an Airbox for my R32 Gts-t before Tuesday the 29th Must be from Perth. )

Hi I need factory R32 GTS-t airbox for my ride, compliance issue. Trying to arrange this by tuesday 29th. Must be in Perth.