Does It Cost 1million Yen To Deregister A Car

[ips]

recently a guy on the forum called John Kucil or John K with 25 years experience importing said it costs 1million yen to deregister a car and other 3 rd party japan side charges to get a car ready for export. This is before any shipping costs. This works out to be about 13-14 grand australia dollars. Can anyone say this is true cause if it is i need to factor in more to land the car and it is going to stuff up alot of family finances. I have been told it is only about 30k yen approximately I am hoping somebody who has imported a car before from japan is going to say that John K's figure is bullshit and no where near a million yen.

[PRIMO]

Hahahaha i just had to reply to this one i have heard some whoppers in the past but this one is definatly the most outlandish words of Bullshit ......

In Fact if we deregister a car in japan and it has registration left we might even get some small amount of money back.

But you did the right thing ask and tho shall find the answer ....... but definatly this is a ripper of a string to pull....

[Beer Baron]

basically the 'costs' in japan should not exceed 200,000yen. that is all the FOB charges. so includes transport from auction house to storage, de-registration, organise shipping, take car to docks etc. mostly it's around 150,000JPY but can be as cheap as 100,000 oras much as 200,000. but 1,000,000 is out of this world.

[Iron Chef]

Now I've heard it all...

[Train21]

Thats the cost of a pretty awesome import. No way you'd pay the same price on it again.

Thats the tax you pay in australia, haha