Importing cars

SweetEBPSi · Post by **SweetEBPSi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:04 am

Has anyone ever heard of this online company for exporting cars to the US? The prices are pretty cheap. Even for shipping it to here.

http://www.japan-partner.com

For instance: This is the generation of an Sti that I have always wanted. Look at the price. It doesn't show what the price would be to have it shipped her, but when I looked at the steps on how to purchase (for shits and grins), the shipping price was about $600 more than that price.

http://www.japan-partner.com/Auto/5223/ ... -sale.html

getteg · Post by **getteg** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:09 am

Yes I check that site from time to time and would love to import a car from them but dont have all the funds right now. Also I still need to research how to get a car legal after getting it here.

There was a Silivia on there about 6 months ago for like a total of 22K shipped. Wanted to get it so bad.

02Type-S · Post by **02Type-S** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:15 am

I looked into it a while back. I think shipping was in the $2,400 neighborhood but I can't be sure.

SweetEBPSi · Post by **SweetEBPSi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:23 am

Well, the cool thing about that site, at least that I noticed, is that they make shipping so easy. There are 3 ways to get the car. I almost want to register under a fake name just to see what the pricing would be to the US. Your right about the shipping. It was a couple thousand more. Still, thats not bad. I found a link that gives an estimate on shipping prices.

bildo16 · Post by **bildo16** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:29 am

im kind of curious about financing one. h motors has a 2003 ep3 type r for 18k, if i WERE able to find a place to finance a it, how would i carry full coverage? you cant really fully insure a car that has body parts that arent readily avalible here stateside. ?????

02Type-S · Post by **02Type-S** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:33 am

SweetEBPSi;101488 wrote:Well, the cool thing about that site, at least that I noticed, is that they make shipping so easy. There are 3 ways to get the car. I almost want to register under a fake name just to see what the pricing would be to the US. Your right about the shipping. It was a couple thousand more. Still, thats not bad. I found a link that gives an estimate on shipping prices.

Why a fake name? I am registered there.

SweetEBPSi · Post by **SweetEBPSi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:40 am

bildo16;101491 wrote:im kind of curious about financing one. h motors has a 2003 ep3 type r for 18k, if i WERE able to find a place to finance a it, how would i carry full coverage? you cant really fully insure a car that has body parts that arent readily avalible here stateside. ?????

Not to mention the safety regulations are different between the two countries. I learned that working on Allex's JDM conversion.

02Type-S;101492 wrote:Why a fake name? I am registered there.

I'm sometime leary about giving out my address before I know anything about a company.

tommygun89hb · Post by **tommygun89hb** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:57 am

here is a thought there is a guy with a skyline in stl that goes to midnight madness right if so he has to know about all the paper work and the insurances deal we should ask him maybe???????

Waffles · Post by **Waffles** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:15 pm

I think most of the JDM cars in mo werent direct imports. They bought them from someone that had already imported them, but it cant hurt to ask.

http://www.japan-partner.com/Auto/2209/ ... -sale.html
http://www.japan-partner.com/Auto/4690/ ... -sale.html
http://www.japan-partner.com/Auto/4879/ ... -sale.html

Kage87 · Post by **Kage87** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:47 pm

tommygun89hb;101529 wrote:here is a thought there is a guy with a skyline in stl that goes to midnight madness right if so he has to know about all the paper work and the insurances deal we should ask him maybe???????

if you're talking about the grey R32, that's Gru and his is from Canada.