Waiting For A Car? - The State Of Importing Cars From Japan ATM

[PTR33]

I live in QLD and I havent even been able to get my car scheduled yet, its almost been a month!

QLD here too and no joy. Been so damn long I have just about forgot what I bought!!!

Paid for the car first week in Sept. Been waiting to get on a boat since late Oct.

Was hoping to be driving it by now but it's still in Japan.

[RiverSide]

QLD here too and no joy. Been so damn long I have just about forgot what I bought!!!

 

Paid for the car first week in Sept. Been waiting to get on a boat since late Oct.

Was hoping to be driving it by now but it's still in Japan.

 

 

It is these occurances that i don't understand.... :s........eg: I purchased a vehicle MID october.......it docked last thursday.

I must have a friend looking over me I guess

[lwells]

It is these occurances that i don't understand.... :s........eg: I purchased a vehicle MID october.......it docked last thursday.

I must have a friend looking over me I guess

It seems to come down to three basic things: 1) which dock/port 2) which shipping company 3) luck. Of course having an agent who isn't on the case isn't going to help matters.

LW.

[Mr R32 M-Spec]

Pentae, I know what you mean. I bought and paid for mine in May this year

If my bank account balance wasn't so low I'd have forgotten I bought one!

suppsed to be on the ship for the 20/12, so hopefully (fingers x'd) I'll find out soon if its on that ship or not.

I hope I don't miss it, I really just want to drive it, and my shitebox is dying

mark

[RBN1]

Pentae, I know what you mean. I bought and paid for mine in May this year

mark

May??? Man thats worse than me. I paid in July and got import approval at the start of September (August build date) been waiting ever since. The importer at least knows where the car is now as they lost it for a while.

[Guest]

I got a email last night saying,

Shipping 6 days delay... 16/DEC leave Yokohama. due to arrival time over Christmas/New Years (Perth)

And today,

We heard that NYK will only be going out of Yokohama this month, no Nagoya as no demand!!! yeah like people waiting from last month still...???

[MerlinTheHapyPig]

my car just arrived in Brissie today. Now all i have to do is wait for it to clear customs and get it trucked down...

how long on average will it take to clear customs/quarantine etc?

[druzilla32]

my car just arrived in Brissie today.  Now all i have to do is wait for it to clear customs and get it trucked down...

how long on average will it take to clear customs/quarantine etc?

about 7 days.. so i was told yesterday from the people with my car.

[Beer Baron]

merlin and drew:

who are you using as the customs agent? how is their service so far?

Thanks,

Richard

[Beer Baron]

bump. see questions above.

[MerlinTheHapyPig]

I am going through J-spec and don't deal directly with the customs agent. J-spec have been pretty good to deal with, no complaints here.

[Beer Baron]

Thanks mate.

[druzilla32]

I am going through J-spec and don't deal directly with the customs agent.  J-spec have been pretty good to deal with, no complaints here.

same over here

[Beer Baron]

D'oh!

Thanks though. Looks like I may use Kiwi's CA service.

Richard

[blacky]

Just adding my experience, my car was bought in november, is a july build and has just gotten on a december boat. No problems as far as i could tell just went straight on.

[Tyler Durden]

Hey Blacky,

Who are you importing with? Geoff from Prestige has told me that there is only one boat to freo each month from japan (leaving around the 28th of each month). Apparently last month only 5 of about 70 privately imported vehicles made it onto the ship. Due to large numbers of new cars filling most of the spots. My car is due to leave japan this month but I will be surprised if it gets on.

Is your car on a boat now? If so can i ask you what boat it's on and when it left? cheers.

[blacky]

Hey Tyler,

Its not on the boat yet, it wont leave till later this month. From what I was told, my car will be shipped via either Mitsui OSK, NYK or NYKLine (not sure about last one). So this suggests that there may be more than one ship arriving per month, or that the different companies alternate the route.. but i'm sure Geoff knows what hes talking about and what he told you is accurate. You're also right that alot of private imports are being shunted of boats due to the new cars coming in... maybe i just got lucky??

To be fair though,its only been booked, not confirmed, but its 90% certain it'll be here January (touch wood).

Hope your car gets on mate, nothing worse than waiting another month for your new toy!

blacky

[cowie165]

Anyone other Kiwi people getting nervous about who gets on the Prince?

I guess we have to wait until B/L's are surrendered to work out which cars shipped....?

Mark

[confuzion]

blacky, geoff said my car was confirmed booked and 90% chance of getting on boat EVERY month (3 months) and it hasnt made it, so no offence i do hope it gets on but i think your in the same boat as me

[blacky]

Hey Sprinta,

yeah i hope it gets on too.. sorry to hear yours hasn't made it yet, hope it comes soon. Really, even though its not really anyones fault, waiting 3-6months for a car that should be here sooner is a bit unfortunate. I probably am in the same boat as everyone else, i suppose we'll have to wait and see.

What car you getting Sprinta? (don't say AE86... )