Hi.

 

Does anyone have any reccommendations for a good company to organise shipping my car from Japan to the UK? I'm currently in Japan with the car so maybe a Japanese (English speaking!) company would be more useful than a British one.

 

Cheap is good. I just need a basic service, I can de-register myself and deliver and collect the car from ports. ;)

 

Anyone done this before?

 

Cheers.

 

I'm looking forward to getting back to the UK on August 3rd. I'm planning to ship the car from Japan mid July so that I don't have to wait to long for it in the UK. :cool:

 

 

 

Thanks a lot - Rory :smw:

Japan Tel: 0081-904-1333-825

Japan FAX: 0081-47-307-4678

 

Contact Miguel

Thanks - I spoke to him. He's very useful, thanks for the advice. :bow:

No probs bud :)

must be pretty cool finding your own car out there! reckon you saved much money?

Look at his location ;)

im lookin ? :)

Must be weird to have the car in Japan, then see it on British roads once you have got here. Boat slower than the plane though!! Rory, as I've never been to Japan I don't know much about it but do you see 300's about a lot? or are they a dying breed? Has everyone there moved on to something newer?

 

You hear a lot about the MOT/shaken being strict, and people not wanting to buy second hand, like their being a stigma about it- is it true? Are there some die-hards that won't give up an old car or does EVERYBODY want to get the newest models? Is there much of a used car industry in Japan? Are there many people driving zeds still?

It didn't cost me anything, a friend gave it to me before he left the country. It needed about 1000 quid spent on it for some body work repairs. Other than that it's in good condition for it's age.

Nice one Rory and good luck with it.

 

Spotted any nice floor mats over there? One thing we could all do with I reckon! There must be loads of places, any contacts would be brilliant.

Hi. Sorry for the delay replying.

 

I don't yet know what it'll be like seeing my Zed in the UK. I've only ever seen it in Japan. I'm certainly looking forward to the higher roads speeds and more open space there is in the UK. Speed limit through most of Japan is either 24 or 36 mph (40 / 50 km/h). It kind of spoils the fun! Lack of roadabouts is also a personal grievance I have with this country.

 

However, I'm also a bit worried about the car since I not sure well it will handle the higher workload. I'm particularly worried about the automatic gearbox.

 

I'm not looking forward to the insurance or petrol bills either.

 

About the shakken / old cars in Japan question. Have a search on all my old posts and you'll find a long message I wrote on almost exactly the same topic, I don't have time now to go through it again so read that post, and if you have any more questions i'll happily answer them.

 

Cheers! -- Thanks for your interest.

I found the link to the post:

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?postid=255903#poststop