Just wondering if there are any hidden costs to importing a car yourself. I can get a low mileage tt (auto though unfortunately) delivered to Newcastle for £2300, but what costs are there for actually getting it registered and on the road once it's here?

 

I asked on Facebook last night to see if any of my friends knew, and it looks like the dvla take 85 quid to register it, you've got to get it through an mot, and tax it. But apparently the tax will be 30% of the cost of the vehicle on top of the regular road tax cost. Is that correct? Meaning I'll end up spending nearly 3k all in?

Just save up or a while - you don't need to be in so much haste. Good ones do appear from time-to-time. There's a TT Auto on ebay for around £3.5k. If you could scrape that together and then over time, get a manual conversion done to it, you'll be quids in.

 

This is what I done, I couldn't find a nice clean solid TT manual anywhere in the uk when I was looking, so I bought a 1996 auto NA, simply because it had 32000km on it, no uk owners, and virtually stock, I payed more than its worth to be honest, but I know it's a solid rust free zed which for me was the priority, she's manual now, and I will get her where I want it to be over time, you must accept these aren't cheap cars to maintain or repair, but I feel they are worth every penny, smiles per mile :thumbup:

I'm currently looking at importing towards the end of the year il be looking to spend around £7-8k, £2300 for a zed landed in the uk is just not going to happen possibly a front clip or something so bad that importing would be pointless, in my opinion if your going to go through the hassle of importing you'd want a good clean grade 4 which you'l have to pay a decent wedge for!

As said before, I imported my Z back in March 2014.

Not for £7k-£8k

Mine was MOT'd in May with new brake pads for half that!

That's a few months ago & this is today:)

If ur looking at £2300 import to UK u r looking at more like £4k!

I know I did it last year & not through some import specialist !

I'd rather get something very special if I was going to import, ideally would be looking got a very clean pre 94 swb no less than a grade 4

How did you go about it art?

I'd rather get something very special if I was going to import, ideally would be looking got a very clean pre 94 swb no less than a grade 4

 

Exactly. If you're going to go to all that trouble and expense, why do it for a £900 (translated) Zed?

I'd rather get something very special if I was going to import, ideally would be looking got a very clean pre 94 swb no less than a grade 4

 

Why pre 94?

I may be wrong, but think that's when Nissan dropped the vct and climate control, and whatever else.

Its completely relevant unless the fact is that none of them will ever be for sale at any point in the near future, which I suspect is not the case? Last year after I bought the R33 I still kept an eye on the 300zx market and saw 3 maybe 4 for sale which I thought to myself 'yeah I would have that' but since November have seen nothing that catches my eye - although appreciate that its winter etc.

 

It will just be a bun fight for who gets there first when on the odd occasion one does pop up (excluding the ridiculous Strosek one for sale at £15k that the guy bought for £7.25k a couple of weeks ago off ebay...)

 

I'm sure that belonged to someone one here just around christmas

It must be now time for UK importers to start shipping over more Z32 300zx's as there is a market for good Z's now. Demand is outstripping supply and the market prices are strong.

All I can say is well done to the members here who cared for there Z's and displayed them at shows up and down the country to show the public how great the 300zx can be if you have a good one. You guys stuck with your Z's when you could of bought one for little money which then broke down giving them a bad name. These have now been sold for parts leaving the cream of the Z32 in enthusiasts hands. Any buyers looking for a nice 300 will have to be patient and be prepared to pay good money for the right one or start importing. Spring and Summer is comming and I am sure the market will start to improve with more for sale.

 

I have recently trawled Japanese auction sites and z32s are definitely thin on the ground now over there compared to a few years back. There are loads of 350Zs like it used to be with Z32s. Good cars are commanding stronger money in japan (and V.strong money in Australia compared to here).

A few years ago these cars were worth 50p the price has crept up and I don't think people realise. So people who looked three to five years ago are expecting nothing to have changed. My cars worth (when it's back in one piece) roughly double what I paid five years ago and I didn't buy a cheap, cheap ie 1k one then.