Imports Through Dickson

[Guest 180Chick]

Hey guys and girls!!

Just wandering if any of you have had any experience with taking 'freshly' imported cars through Dickson after they have been Australian complied.

Ie what is needed to be done, what are the rules that Dickson go by for imports (what are you allowed/not allowed to have on the car)....

Any input at all would be heaps appreciated!

Thanks!!!

Jo

[Terminal]

if it's freshly imported i can't imagine there being a problem with it, although compliance and roadworthiness can be different. usually only stock cars are allowed to be complied which would mean a freshly stock car would have a very good chance

[leech_]

Is it a skyline or a 180 ???

My car was a fresh import. Things you will need from memory (this was over 2 years ago)

Compliance plate in the engine bay

Compliance papers

Owners manual (if it doesnt say the weight of the car get your car weighed at a weigh station i had to go get this done)

Make sure the wheel/tyre sizes eg 225/16/55 match up the placecard in the door sill.

Mine was stock when i first got it so i didnt have any problems getting through.

good luck

[R3sp3ct]

x2

[SKYLVIA]

someone PLEASE make a thread on dickson and get it STICKY'D

Edited October 19, 2006 by SKYLVIA

[R3sp3ct]

lol yeah this at least the forth

[Guest 180Chick]

Sorry to be annoying with Dickson questions. I have been over by way of registration and defect for both my 180s but just wanted to know what needs to be done for imported cars and people's experience

It will get its plate in Sydney after going through Customs, the papers 'should' come over with the car and will make sure they do. It will be stock and if not, I will be able to fix it before it goes over.

Thanks for your help and input

Edited October 19, 2006 by 180Chick

[Amaru]

Is the car being complianced or is it a 15 year old import?

If its being complianced, just take those papers with you and you should be sweet. If its a 15 year old import, it needs some specific work done (fuel neck, child restraints etc) done and an engineer to sign off on the work. You then need to take the engineering certificate with you to Dickson.

[33Sedan]

Any crazy jap window tint? Myne was 4% visibility..........Had to get that taken off. Heard of quite a few ppl having to fix parking lights etc, make sure every ligth works. make sure seat belt stoppers are working. The guys picked me off for having a very small hole in the muffler.

[race_snooze]

make sure horn works as well.

[Guest 180Chick]

Thanks guys!!!

The car is being complianced as it is younger than 15 years. I have got the car so it applies by the RAWS and SEVS rules.

On our ACT Goverment site it says you can take a car to any certified workshop in ACT UNLESS it is an import in which case it MUST go over Dickson. So does that mean it will just be a normal inspection like any other car, I just need to make sure I have my Jap papers and the compliance plate from Sydney is on?

There is no tinting on the window, well that I can see anyway. I will make sure to check the lights.

So basically if I just make sure the car is roadworthy like I would taking any of my other cars over, it should be the same?

Thanks for all your help guys!! It means heaps and I really appreciate it! Just means I have a better idea what to do once I get over all this stuff with Customs.

[Nugget_GTR]

I had the worst experiance with my R taking it over dickson, they just didnt want to pass me!!

First off i had all the import papers as well as compliance papers and it was registered in NSW for me but i needed to put it over dickson anyway.

First i had the police check which came back fine, then they checked it and failed me on my upper tie rod end on the passanger side i think it was. but everything else passed.

then i got called up and was asked to come down, i did and there were some detectives there that threatened to take my car away because it was apparenly stollen!!! WTF!!!

I found out later that the place in sydney that engineered the car where under investigation but i dont know how they thought it was stollen i had the import papers with the same engine number and everything as it was imported into the country with.

then a guy from dickson said to go and get it re engineered and then come get it registered so another 400 bucks down the drain!!! i put it in to have the tie rod fixed. took it over the pits again and they said the tie rod was still no good so i took it back to get fixed my machanics said there was nothing wrong with it, so i got all new ones from nissan and had them installed, took it over the pits again and they still said the tie rod end was no good ITS f**kING BRAND NEW!!!!!! i nearly lost the plot.... i pointed out that everything under there had been replaced, then they said my exuast was too loud WHAT!!!! they had passed it all the other times. so they marked everything down as being fine except the exaust. i was fed up and lucky i can just take the muffler off i did that and made up a muffler smaller than a mazda 121 HAHA it didnt make a noise.... well it barley ran but it was quiet. funny as 3 1/2" goinging into 1/4" at the tip.

took it over the pits again and the guy looked at the sheet saw he oly needed to test the sound i drove the car where he wanted it he stood there for a bit then came around to my window and said "you got to be joking how long is that muffler going to stay on ther" i just said it was no concern to him.

he was so angry but tested it anyway hehe reved it to 3 grand and it would have been luck to even register on the machine. he marked it off and through the paper at me.... i just dont know what there problem was they just didnt want to pass me.

i hope i never have to go over again after that experiance

hope it all goes well tho for ya

[recce]

Nugget, that was scary! My car has been booked for an inspection this Monday as I need to transfer the NSW Rego to ACT rego. Hope that does not happen to me!

[TeeJay1600]

Yea they are absolutely the most unreasonable people i have ever dealt with in my life. I felt like taking a bomb in there at one stage and being a martyr for all the people with modified cars ! They feel asthough the have power over us being the final word on wether our cars are "roadwothy" i have seen some real farken shirtboxes on ACT road but do any of those cars ever go to dickson i sure wire holding the exhaust manifold on counts as a MOD !

DICKSON REGO WANKERS FARK OFF AND DIE

[Nugget_GTR]

Nugget, that was scary! My car has been booked for an inspection this Monday as I need to transfer the NSW Rego to ACT rego. Hope that does not happen to me!

it shouldnt, my experiance is prolly the worst of the worst. i dont understand why i was never rude or anything, they just had it in for me for some reason, i didnt even have that much trouble with my mx6 which had sooo much work done to it, and it wasnt engineered!!!

[MIVEC]

have seen some real farken shirtboxes on ACT road but do any of those cars ever go to dickson i sure wire holding the exhaust manifold on counts as a MOD !

Dob them in if you see them, they can do it to us if they think our cars are too loud/low.

[CeJay]

Hmm should count myself lucky, getting mine reinspected on wednesday, after i've fixed some minor points, considering the mods they could of picked me on the first time.

[nsanity]

Yea they are absolutely the most unreasonable people i have ever dealt with in my life. I felt like taking a bomb in there at one stage and being a martyr for all the people with modified cars ! They feel asthough the have power over us being the final word on wether our cars are "roadwothy" i have seen some real farken shirtboxes on ACT road but do any of those cars ever go to dickson i sure wire holding the exhaust manifold on counts as a MOD !

DICKSON REGO WANKERS FARK OFF AND DIE

i concur with the above statement.

I'm honestly not even sure what they are trying to do. The amount of grief i had over the fact that my engineer wrote "remote boost controller" on my certificate, was stupid.

How is a remote boost controller going to endanger my life or the general road populus (vs say a bleed valve or just having it at a higher level anyway)?

I'm all for having unsafe cars off the road, and ones that are overly unnecessarily polluting our environment - but the level of analism they go to is retarded.

f**k Dickson and f**k the old bastard who has some long-withstanding vendetta against engineers.

I asked repeatedly why certain things were a problem, one of them proceded to tell me (regarding the boost controller) i could dialup 4 or 5, when they start at 1, making more horsepower - which has what to do with anything? Nevermind the fact that my turbo wouldn't flow it, so its irrelevant anyway.

Edited October 21, 2006 by nsanity

[JaiJai]

i concur with the above statement.

I'm honestly not even sure what they are trying to do. The amount of grief i had over the fact that my engineer wrote "remote boost controller" on my certificate, was stupid.

How is a remote boost controller going to endanger my life or the general road populus (vs say a bleed valve or just having it at a higher level anyway)?

I'm all for having unsafe cars off the road, and ones that are overly unnecessarily polluting our environment - but the level of analism they go to is retarded.

f**k Dickson and f**k the old bastard who has some long-withstanding vendetta against engineers.

I asked repeatedly why certain things were a problem, one of them proceded to tell me (regarding the boost controller) i could dialup 4 or 5, when they start at 1, making more horsepower - which has what to do with anything? Nevermind the fact that my turbo wouldn't flow it, so its irrelevant anyway.

enough said, mate had such problems with them..had to go back 3 times before they were happy! QLD kicks ass they'll do anything for a good guy who just happens to have a slab of australias finest on him

[Guest 180Chick]

I am bit scared now Nugget lol. I was going to get it imported and regoed straight here but have now changed it to get complied and regoed in NSW then all I have to do is bring it over Dickson by way of state transfer on the rego but sounds like that is going to be such a hassle too

Would you mind please sending me a PM on the company that did your NSW work just so that you don't see a post up here in a month or so saying a story like yours?