How Much Should I Be Paying For A Mint Condition Imported R33 Series 2

[_8OO5TED_]

I have just imported a 1996 R33 GTS25t 5spd Sedan. It had a couple of minor susp mods, R32 GTR seats & wheels and some body bracing and stuff. It was a factory manual too.

My reason for importing was that there was not enough decent manual 4drs in Perth particularly series 2's which is what i wanted.

costs you ask?

I used Ben @ J-Spec. Their fee is usually $1000 for their services. Mine was a little cheaper as it was the 3rd time I have used Ben. This is paid to have Ben start looking. He looked, he found, I liked, I bought!

Car was 440,000FOB which at the time as just over $5200 AUD. I paid this which got the car on a boat, and heading towards Perth.

Just before the car arrived at Fremantle port, I paid all the customs fees and transporting costs etc etc. this was $2742 AUD.

Tomorrow the car will head to the compliance shop. The compliance cost is $2600 AUD.

So far, thats bout $11500.

on top of this is registration, new tyres and vehicle security (immobiliser/alarm).

I envisage it costing me about $13000 on the road.

The car is in great condition. A Grade 4 if you like.

I could have bought a high KM, flogged out version in Perth for $10K, but I am glad I didnt.

[Mr Eps]

That price would be "average" condition I would assume....

As in, not necessarilly good condition but just "what you'd expect" with such an old car...

Mind you... There are other factors to consider... Are these r32 going for 700K at a USS auction house? If so... WHICH auction house is it???

Is it 700K on yahoo Japan???

... Is this 700k at a used car dealer?

Factors like these play a huge difference in the price....

Understand much of the market in Japan is bid based. Unlike here where someone will ask 13k aud for an NA auto r33 gts... And have people call and offer them their weekly nghtfill check...

Japan is mostly bids. So the location, demand, exposure, and popularity.

With something like R32 gtr however, if you're chasing a good one, Its best to contact one of the brokers who use these forums, as they can gain access to special boutique gtr dealers and buying agents,

As well as scour the yahoo Japan auctions, which is mostly where enthusiasts like to market their cars to draw a slower more broad market and avoid the auction house fees.

To them, a car will fetch more worth on yahoo with some nice pics to go with it than it would with 20 seconds of fate in a dingy dank auction bidding room :-p

[Mr Eps]

8oosted that post was aimed for mm89 not you :-)

Would you please be a dear and PM me where your compliance shop is??? I'd like to have a chat :-)

[Guest]

I have just imported a 1996 R33 GTS25t 5spd Sedan. It had a couple of minor susp mods, R32 GTR seats & wheels and some body bracing and stuff. It was a factory manual too.

Car was 440,000FOB which at the time as just over $5200 AUD. I paid this which got the car on a boat, and heading towards Perth.

Tomorrow the car will head to the compliance shop. The compliance cost is $2600 AUD.

With suspension it will have to be standard, R32 GTR seats & wheels can be done if the workshop is prepared to do the correct paperwork, out of interest who is doing it.

DPI are onto new charcoal canisters and new cats fitted so get the local workshop to pit pass it if they are leaving out things to get the price down.

440,000 FOB is cheap.

[_8OO5TED_]

With suspension it will have to be standard, R32 GTR seats & wheels can be done if the workshop is prepared to do the correct paperwork, out of interest who is doing it.

DPI are onto new charcoal canisters and new cats fitted so get the local workshop to pit pass it if they are leaving out things to get the price down.

440,000 FOB is cheap.

Why would the DPI be on to all that? All the car has to be, is legal, when it goes over the pits.

I took my Chaser over the pits with a catback exhaust, 17" wheels & coilovers when it was registered for the first time. This was about 15mths ago.

I understand that for compliance it must be stock to be signed off, but getting it registered, I know it doesn't because my Chaser wasn't.

[Guest]

Why would the DPI be on to all that? All the car has to be, is legal, when it goes over the pits.

I took my Chaser over the pits with a catback exhaust, 17" wheels & coilovers when it was registered for the first time. This was about 15mths ago.

I understand that for compliance it must be stock to be signed off, but getting it registered, I know it doesn't because my Chaser wasn't.

DPI are onto it and many other things because they have been told what to check by DOTARS, they give briefs when they visit after the pieces of crap coming from over east.

A vehicle is not to be modified from time of compliance till registration, when the car goes over the pits it is to be same as what workshop signed it off at.

People know it doesn't always happen but that is a risk now the workshops are less likely to take just to give some stranger a break on cost's.

[SHIRUBA_XXXIII]

I imported a very good condition S2 R33GTST late last year, 110,000kms 5 speed manual. Had just a few mods (exhaust wheels etc.) but I didn't use s broker. I know it was risky (or plain stupid) but what I was really chasing was the experience of importing myself, so I knew first hand what needs to done.

It was great fun, and well worth the wait, and I learnt so much from organizing everything my self (from shipping to quarantine to compliance to transport) and in the end I got the car complied registered fitted with an immobilizer and on road for 10.5k. So yeah, it would have been cheaper to buy locally, but I really enjoyed learning what I did.

[Mr Eps]

Yeah man, importing your own car, liaising with federal and state government and warfings and compliance and towing and dealing with every speedbump on the way while trying to live your regular life so you can save less than 1000 dollars sounds like a real hoot

I'd do it

[Chris Rogers]

Yeah man, importing your own car, liaising with federal and state government and warfings and compliance and towing and dealing with every speedbump on the way while trying to live your regular life so you can save less than 1000 dollars sounds like a real hoot

I'd do it

depends if you have done it before. I let a customs agent do mine when I do things out of NZ. the first one I did was done the same way.