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Bear in mind this is for a car coming in under SEVS, not a personal import or race/rally or whatever, just a rubber stamp job...

Date applied for:

18 March

Date import approval received:

22 April

This was for my own Cube - I think Canberra subconsciously knew I've been criticising them in upcoming issues of HPI mag lol

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nah record stands at 30 minutes.

one of the J-Spec customers had to get an approval done... as it turned out he lived in Canberra, so he went up to DOTARS and got one of the guys "Terry" I think was his surname to approve it. Time between him walking into DOTARS and him having an approval doc was half an hour.

Kristian - i was about to actually put up a new thread regarding what i'm about to ask - and sorry for going off topic - but i read an article by you in a HPI mag yesterday, about how a middle aged woman was commissioning you to find her a 4 seat 300zx, i dunno how old it was but at the end you said "find out how the story ended in next month's issue of HPI"

however - this "issue" came in a pack of 3, ie, u buy current issue get two random issues with it...

sooooooooooooooooooo

i've read the story... but don't have the means to find out how it ended - did you find what she was looking for?

the suspension's killing me!

nah record stands at 30 minutes.

one of the J-Spec customers had to get an approval done... as it turned out he lived in Canberra, so he went up to DOTARS and got one of the guys "Terry" I think was his surname to approve it. Time between him walking into DOTARS and him having an approval doc was half an hour.

I think you misread - mine was over a month :D

The quickest I've had was submitted via fax on a Friday, received in the mail (in Adelaide) Monday morning. Can't beat half an hour though, that's awesome.

Mr Eps, wait till next month maybe you'll get the next issue in your pack haha

Short story was that a dealer in Qld had the exact car she was looking for, had been in their stock for over 12 months. So I introduced her to them and she broke their balls instead of mine!

ohh I get ya now Cheffeh, yeah totally glossed over the month and 4 days wait and thought you were chuffed about a 4 day wait :D

Mind you, I've been waiting 2 months for my frikkin passport to arrive.

I should find out what happened to it. Probably in the hands of some Israeli spy.

  • 2 weeks later...

that is not good mate. should not be taking that long. I've done personal import before and not really noticed them being that much longer than a regular SEVS approval. I'd give them a call and see what is happening.

what a bugger. yeah I haven't done one since last year. a long time back they used to take longer but a few years ago wait time seemed to equal out with other VIA's as they knew what they were looking at. obviously it helps it you make sure you attach absolutely every piece of required paperwork and spell it out in a cover letter along with the VIA application. but I'm sure that's not the problem in this case. :) just slow processing. they do try fairly hard to discourage PI's anyway so it may be another tactic to put people off....

Bear in mind this is for a car coming in under SEVS, not a personal import or race/rally or whatever, just a rubber stamp job...

Date applied for:

18 March

Date import approval received:

22 April

This was for my own Cube - I think Canberra subconsciously knew I've been criticising them in upcoming issues of HPI mag lol

isn't it 17days as a normal acceptable time frame. I know that david did one about hte same time and came back in the same time frame. (17/03 ->21/04)

not overly sure what the fuss is. its a gov't dept. and they tend to take their time on things regardless of who yells at them.

that is not good mate. should not be taking that long. I've done personal import before and not really noticed them being that much longer than a regular SEVS approval. I'd give them a call and see what is happening.

Yeah I was on their case yesterday. Nice and polite but basically what the f@#k is going on.

Long story but it looks like it should all be good later this week and if not I'll be going their in person.

As for paperwork I gave them everything they asked for and more.

I'm not overly fussed as going back to Jappa in 3 weeks for a bit of bizzo and some racing with some mates and some candy sampling but would be good if its in Oz by the time I get back here.

I havent even got to drive it in its finished tune.

Mark you've got an email from them, if you haven't spotted it already - seriously they are clowns...

Yep Kristian, I got it !

For 1 second there I was actually happy then I reached for the valium bottle.

I sent most of the stuff they asked for before but will send it again plus more, hopefully thats the end of it and we can get this car on the way.

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