Stealing Parts

[YONG]

Quick question....

I have plan to import a car from Japan.. and will use agency.

BUT!. Is it possible to steal some parts from the car that I imported by comliancing agency or mechanics??

Most of the agencies are doing "importing car". If they find that the car has been imported has good parts, they may replace some good parts from the car and use it for their cars.....

Anyone heard about this issues???

[funkymonkey]

Technically anything non ADR compliant on the car has to be replaced by a compliant part and the aftermarket part that was removed from the car has to be destroyed (not sold) by the compliancer.

Whether or not that happens in reality is another matter.

If I were you, make sure whoever is handling your importation does an inspection in Japan before the car leaves, and if possible give you an itemised list of aftermarket parts on it. Then when it gets through compliance, if the compliancer wants to run the risk, see if they'll give you those parts back.

[mad082]

would another option be to import the car and then before the car is taken to the compliance place, try and get access to it to swap as many of the parts back to stock yourself?

[RusH_]

would another option be to import the car and then before the car is taken to the compliance place, try and get access to it to swap as many of the parts back to stock yourself?

Sounds like a good idea,

Its kinda ridiculous when you think about it, i mean you paid for the car and everything in it, just because a part doesnt meet adr requirements does not mean the should take it from you and destroy/ use it them selves.

/rant

[funkymonkey]

Its kinda ridiculous when you think about it, i mean you paid for the car and everything in it, just because a part doesnt meet adr requirements does not mean the should take it from you and destroy/ use it them selves.

write a letter of complaint to DOTARS if you don't like the law. Just be grateful that most compliancers do the dodgy and offer to give you back your parts. It is illegal and they can get into a lot of trouble if they get caught, not to mention run the risk of losing their compliancing license.

And no Marc, you can't do that. The car has to go from customs straight to the compliancer, you are at no point between those two stages supposed to even see or touch the car.

Basically the rules were put in to stop people bringing in heavily modded cars and then compliancing them with those parts on. These strict rules wouldn't be in place if people didn't insist on circumventing more lax laws that existed beforehand. If you want to blame someone blame the people who rorted the system before you thought of doing the same.

[Birds]

I drove our Soarers (albeit with trade plates) from the docks to the compliance shop?

We imported them ourselves and I don't remember anything about not being able to touch them...but this was a few years ago.

[MRSAMO]

It happens definitely! Make sure you do the inspection of everything about the car before it gets exported from Japan.

You do the compliance and if something doesn't meet their standards get it replaced (after all you are paying for it!), keep the original parts for later or sell them.