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k, got it, but you'd still have to find someone to do compliance on it. There are plenty of cars eligible on the SEVS list, but no one's doing. A workshop would have to comply about 20 a year to make it worth their while to add it to their list.

It would be ok if they sold them at a reasonable price though...

Yeah also they came out 2004 too I believe, I think the only way we can do a new car is if the major manufacture is not in Australia and the car meets all the criteria.

Well since they came out in 2001....they are used

Right, but a RAW can only do used cars, and emissions are harder on used cars than new cars. I don't have the numbers in front of me, so can someone check the SEVS emission requirements (from 2006/7?) versus Japan ULEV? k, going home now....Jon might be replying from now on for today.... -david

Wasn't sure how to cut and paste multiple posts, so I'll try to simplify what might be some misunderstandings below. Basically, it makes sense to look at Nissan's options, which leads us to our (compliance workshop's) options. option #1: Nissan brings in more than 100 R35's to Australia (within 18 months of release). result for us: sorry, only Nissan can bring it in. option #2: Nissan declares they will bring it in under SEVS (like Mitsubishi did with EVO) result for us: hooray, let's all get compliance and import R35's. option #3: Nissan can say, "we're not bringing it in" (which they probably won't do) result for us: wow, thanks for the heads up Nissan, that was kind, now let's bring in R35's. option #4: Nissan doesn't bring them in for 18 months, but brings them in later possibly result for us: we can bring in the cars built during those date ranges (same as S15) don't think there's an option #5

sorry, you lost me on that post. Why do you think this car isn't for dealers? We've had dealers asking about bringing in evaluation vehicles already, and we told them pretty much what I outlined in the above post. I understand what you're saying about 'waiting for others', and that definitely seems like the smart way to do things now, but I don't know how you can say it 'will not be hard', because it might be IMPOSSIBLE, which is more than hard. As I said above, Nissan has 18 months from release in Japan to bring it in themselves. Until that 18 months passes OR Nissan writes a letter to DOTARS giving up their import rights, no one can bring them in under SEVS. Our dealership wouldn't bring in a car in this range, simply because we could buy about 10 R34's for this price and turn them over much quicker. It becomes a simple calculation of your rate of return to see if it's worthwhile. For us to add a new vehicle to our schedule, we'd have to do about 20 vehicles per year to make it worthwhile for compliance, granted with a car like the R35 it'd drop, but still, we're already maxing out our plates so why bother?

S15 steering wheel?

There are no Jaguars eligible under the current sevs system. http://rvcs-prodweb.dot.gov.au/sevs/sevsindex.htm cheers, david @ carizma

Look, we don't want to troll or dash any hopes out there, but let's face it, there are a ton of unanswered questions about the R35 out there that we just don't know yet. STILL, it doesn't hurt to guess any of these answers, right? We (me, Marc, or Jon) hardly read this section of the forum, because it's all so speculative, but this is our opinion here that it's just not worth even thinking about the R35 at least for another year or so, for the following reasons. Here are two (what we believe to be) facts people should keep in mind when thinking about doing compliance for this car (remember, we have 19 models on our compliance list now, largest in Victoria, we know what we're talking about at least a bit): #1. The new Nissan R35 GTR has now been released in Japan. Unfortunately it will be 18 months (from October 24 2007) before it is eligible for import under the RAWS scheme unless Nissan provide a letter that they will not be importing it to Australia (unlikely I think). The word is that Nissan are trying for Full Volume approval for some time late 2008. (This 'word' comes from an engineer we know) Bringing in a Vehicle for market evaluation is a big risk at this stage as it may never get to the stage of being eligible for compliance. (I.E. there has to be a period of 18 months where Nissan doesn't bring it in themselves, or else it will never be eligible) #2. On top of that the new sevs emissions laws are making it so tight that no new raws vehicles to date have passed an emission test. This could be how the government is trying to squeeze out importers. That's about it, really....we'd love to be wrong about this stuff, so please start the flame war now. I realize that everyone's quite excited about this car....but if you're bringing in test cars, I'd recommend having a backup plan or at least thinking about the issues I've outlined above. cheers! david @ carizma

very impressive thread revival, mate. pre 90 cars are easy to comply, just go see an engineer about it, they grow on trees in queensland. cheers, david @ carizma

Hi DNGRUS, $2000, and we've got all the spare parts to swap on if needed. cheers, david @ carizma

+1 for RE Customs

correct, Nissan brought in the R32 GTR only, but that doesn't matter. It's just the R32 part that matters, so the ruling applies to all R32's, regardless of whether they're GTR's or GTS-T's. From chassy number (R32 GTS-T) HCR32 271123 onwards is ok..... took us a while to figure that one out....if you need to know the chassy numbers for non-turbos, gts-4 and gtr's, email me or give us a call.... might cost you a beer or two, haha. david @ carizma

Haven't heard about any changes.....usually people put Halogens on for compliance and registration, then swap them back.

Nice car...... I assume you've got a compliance workshop already, but if you don't we can give you a good deal, and we have all the stock parts you need. (we swap during compilance for free, we don't pull b.s. about tyres, extra charges, etc.). Give us a call at our showroom 03 9415 7150 if you're interested. (ask for Jon) cheers, david @ carizma

can I bump this thread, since I haven't gotten a response yet? Honestly, we have a 1993 R32 GTR up for $18,900 that's only gotten about 82 views in the BT section.....a similar post (R32 GTR) in the Private Sellers section has 800. Please help us out with this.....I have to justify this monthly expense to my boss, and 82 views makes it difficult, 800 makes it much easier.... Cheers, david

sucks....is it accruing port charges? maybe use a different agent next time.....

what happened to the $20,000 budget? If you've got any extra cash, send it my way please.

Hi Cefiro, I've never heard of anyone being exempt from importing air con gas. How did you get this idea? That regulation is put in place for environmental reasons, not economical ones, so it applies to all cars, regardless of who imports it. It applies to just about anything that contains air con gas, and not just automobiles. The custom's agent usually just processes the paperwork, but services offered vary from agent to agent. I'm sure you could find some good recommendations of agents on this board if you ask around. Anyways, best of luck with the car, I wouldn't worry about this situation too much, every import process has at least a couple hiccups that are bound to happen. cheers, david

It has to be complied with a stock exhaust on it, but we can let you borrow one for free if you comply it with us. cheers, david @ carizma also, feel free to start a new thread if you'd like, I'm sure the moderators won't mind.

It CAN be complied if it's manufactured in June '92 or later. Check the VIN to see what month it was made in. Other than that, it can't since Nissan brought in those models themselves from mid '91 until mid '92. who holds the import approval?

A reissue is a lot of work. You should contact your original compliance workshop to see if they'll help you out. You MIGHT be able to do this yourself with DOTARS, but it'll also be a lot of work. We put all our plates in the passenger door pillar for this very reason. I thought most other workshops do this as well, but since I don't use other workshops to comply cars, I guess that was just an assumption. Anyways, I'd start by calling DOTARS to talk to them, since this is definitely not the first time this has happened, and post here what they tell you, since I'm sure other people would like to know as well....oh yeah, and for people out there, ask your compliance workshop to put the plate on the passenger door pillar, since it's fine to do this as long as it's on the paperwork that way. cheers, david

Not to put down every broker out there because there are some good ones but we are brokers and hold compliance for 18 different models of vehicles so everything is done in house and our fee is the same as everyone else. Why risk importing though someone who has to rely on other business to get the job done. We make sure and guarentee that a car we orgainse the purchase for will not have any compliance problems.

Thanks mate....let us know when you're ready to get another one! cheers, david