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http://raws.dotars.gov.au/rawswebpublic/RAWPubSearch.asp

what type of compliance plate does it have?

No, he can't. That's the whole point of the new system, to stop this kind of stuff. You're probably thinking of the old system. That's why the workshop damages the chassis #.

No, because it's an imported vehicle. Vehicle imports are governed by federal regulations (DOTARS), and only after your car is approved by them is it put on NEVDIS, which allows state governments to register it. When a vehicle first comes in for compliance, the workshop does an Incoming Vehicle Inspection Report. If your car was accident damaged, the workshop reports this to DOTARS and your car can never be registered. It's supposed to be exported or destroyed, but you could still use it for track use (or part it out possibly). But forget about ever getting it registered. No hope of repairable write-off VINS either, since the car is an illegal import as far as the federal government is concerned. Do you have the original import approval? Or a copy? Technically, you should also have the de-registration certificate from Japan, but I'm assuming you don't. If the original workshop already reported this vehicle as accident repaired to DOTARS, you can't transfer it to another workshop.

Ah, ok, understood. Yeah, it's failed compliance, that's what a workshop does when it fails compliance. They'll usually cut out the chassis number or mark it so it can't be complied. (Some NICE workshops WON'T do this, they'll just say they never saw the car and let you deal with it another way) Basically, you can never get this car complied, and you're supposed to destroy or export it, but you could use it as a track car, but forget about road registration cause of the failed compliance. I assume the owner who failed compliance put a new chassis number on just to sell it (highly illegal), but you can't legally get a new import approval with this chassis number. Try to get your money back.

We try to get them in to sell at $15,900, but with the current exchange rate, you'd be looking at more. See our website for our current stock list, and we have an online quote form you can use to calculate costs from Japan. Cheers, David @ Carizma

First of all, do you have an original dereg certificate? The car's uncomplied we're assuming, right? Second of all, if it is complied, you're not confusing VIN stamping with the original chassis number, right? Because you have to add 6U90000 before the chassis number, sometimes they just add stamps to the original chassis number and it looks dodgy but it's acceptable. Basically, we need more info about the current status of the car in order to help you out more properly. cheers, David @ Carizma

If you know the VIN, put it in here: http://raws.dotars.gov.au/rawswebpublic/RAWPubVehSearch.asp and you can see who imported/complied it. Do some research as that could give you a clue as to what type of cars they bring in. Feel free to cruise by our showroom, we've got an R33 Series II and R34's in stock now. cheers, David @ Carizma

Have you checked that you meet the qualifications for a personal import? The 2.0 litre isn't eligible as a SEVS import. david @ Carizma

It's listed at $17,900, see our website for more details. I'll put up some new photos soon or you can come in our showroom to see it. We're located in Richmond, 4 York St. 3121 We do trade-ins, but you'll always get a higher price with a private sale, since we have to resell the car ourselves. send us an email david@ or info@ with your trade-in info and we can give you a general price. Cheers, David @ Carizma

spotted a super sweet RS4 Black with twin sunroofs manual transmission in our showroom as we speak. It's an orphan and needs a good home.....any prospective parents out there?

I assume your car is a r32 with the non-turbo r33 engine in it? This car isn't eligible for compliance. As a general rule, if the import approval isn't a SEVS one, it can never be complied either.

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It was a crap Japanese hornet alarm system, and the guy didn't know where our workshop was.....but cheers for the ideas! Glad to know we got lots of eyes out there!

The car was ours, we just got it as a trade-in from a guy getting a V35 coupe. Whoever did it bypassed the alarm system somehow. Yeah, it was super clean. Loving the steering wheel idea, too.

Hey Guys, Our R32 GTR was stolen between Sunday night - Monday morning. It's gunmetal grey w works rims seen here in the photos. If you see it or any of its parts, let us know asap PLEASE. Rego: WEG475

Mean_R34: You don't lose your cash and your car. You'll get your cash back or you'll get to keep the car since GTA is an LMCT. The State government has a Motor Vehicle Compensation Fund which covers all LMCT dealers when they go out of business or lose their license. If they don't go out of business they're liable to pay you back for the car. eMsta: We comply 90% of their Japan imports. All their cars are mint that we see, and customers aren't allowed in our compliance workshop anyways, so I assume you saw their car at another workshop. All we can vouch for is that 90% of their cars (the other 10% go to other workshops) are the best imports we see compared to other customers of ours. (but expensive). Deanis: cheers for that mate, definitely some free beers if you come pick up the car here!

no worries. Well, that's strange that they said that. The RVCS scheme has a circular (0-3-2 if you're interested) that says: "The manufacturer must replace any label found to be defective. A replacement adhesive label or a letter of compliance may be provided where a lost or accidentally damaged label can be proven." It's a different scheme than RAWS, but they both use similar adhesive labels so I guess you need to look into a 'letter of compliance' option then. We've never done this, but maybe someone else here has. Get your painter to write you a letter saying what he's done, cause you might need that when dealing with DOTARS. Plus, it might be handy when you sue his az later.

DOTARS is a federal system, rego is a state system. Their only major links are through NEVDIS or the online evidence databases that some state transport agencies (VICRoads, etc) use. As far as I know, DOTARS has no way of knowing if a car's registered or not. Are you sure you were speaking with the RAWS team at DOTARS? It's a big agency so make sure you spoke with the right people. The other people at DOTARS don't know much about RAWS. The car we dealt with wasn't yet registered, but we got the plate fine.

Just peeling it off voids the label. If he finds the voided label, great, but not necessary. You have to go back to the workshop that complied the car and get them to do a stat dec to get a new plate issued. We just had to do this last week for a customer who put the wrong plate on a car.

It's definitely 'buyer beware' on tradecarview at the moment. I feel sorry for customers who get shafted by sellers on there. But we've also seen some ignorant customers (i.e. buying a civic and shipping it here to Melbourne with no knowledge whatsoever of the real process) who should have done more research. It's not like you're buying a SanDisk 2 GB sd card for F's sake, you're buying a car. Would you buy from someone with 0 feedback on eBay (tradecarview has no feedback system) if a car was interstate? (with no way to get an inspection, no way to verify anything basically). Most people wouldn't buy a car interstate based purely on trust, so it baffles me why they would do it internationally. Still, we've seen some decent compliance cars come through tradecarview, but also some rust buckets as well. Basically remember that the Japanese domestic still uses the auction system as well, so there's a good chance these tradecarview cars are coming from auction anyways. Just cut out the middleman and get a decent buyer in Japan yourself. There are tons of threads on SAU already about this. (Then call us for compliance, or use our buyer and we guarantee compliance).

sounds like coil packs.

Hey mate, bummer about the first r34. We've seeing r34 sales definitely outnumbering r33 sales lately, but if you can find a mint 33 that might be a good option for you. We've got an auto coupe turbo 34 coming in, selling for $14,900 after compliance (wholesale price). more info on our ebay page. basically the body is pretty different, so choose whichever one you prefer lookswise. You can get great performance out of either. cheers, David @ Carizma

how about Regency?

90kms is fine, 150kms is fine, too, like everyone's said, they'll go up to 300kms if you treat it right. We've had a 98 34 GTT come in from Japan with 27,200 on the clock (with logbooks). It was an auto, which usually have less from Japan, but it does happen. We try to buy cars with around 70-80 on the clock. More importantly, just go by the condition of the car. Get it checked out if you're not too familiar with skylines, or if the dealer seems dodgy. Or just get it checked out anyways, can't hurt, right?