Originally Posted by parkhigh (Post 5093585)

Hi
Try PSS they do come round and you will find lots on here used them and were happy. Pickfords were expensive over £5k for us and we got a quote from the company with the cat log cant remember but they are not recommended I only found that out after doing a search.
Lots of companies do half container you are limited though as you need to be ready when someone else is etc. Why dont you advertise on here for someone else who may be going at the same time as you and to the same place thats been done before? Dont forget you may also get landed with problems with aqis if the person you are sharing with isnt as stringent with their cleaning etc.
When we brought our shed stuff we used heaps of bleach etc and wrapped stuff in plastic, nothing was confiscated. Xmas tree we cut off pines cones etc. We took a lot of time and care into ensuring our stuff could come. Bought a new vacuum cleaner etc. Why dont you bring your car and fill up the container? I wish id brought ours as we sold our people carrier for peanuts before we left and i miss it all the time. we bought a car here but it has cost heaps. This is one of the things i would do differently if i had known.
cheers Irene
Good luck

Originally Posted by trevamather (Post 5098476)

does anyone know the ins and outs of taking a car to oz? just bought a mazda 6 and would like to take it over instead of losing money selling it here..

Originally Posted by Disco01 (Post 5099663)

You would need a dedicated 20ft gp container, as cars can't really be shipped as groupage cargo due to damage that can be incurred in transit.

In order to load the container you would have to drive your car to a depot where they would drain it of petrol and hold it in place in the container with lashings to limit the movement in transit. From there on in it is just like a normal export to Australia. pretty straight forward all in all.

Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by bluenico (Post 5093646)

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Originally Posted by trevamather (Post 5099809)

any ideas on the costs to ship and import taxes etc etc bought car for £8k last year

Originally Posted by Disco01 (Post 5102832)

You will probably be looking in the region of 3k upto port.

Originally Posted by Malcs66 (Post 5101553)

Are PSS the only one's that use Reefers? They quoted us a lot less as they said about using a reefer, no other company so far has mentioned them. It's a saving of roughly a grand.

Originally Posted by stuckinblighty (Post 5103171)

I was told that a reefer was only approx 200-300 quid cheaper,i'll have to ask again :confused:

Originally Posted by Malcs66 (Post 5103540)

to be honest not 100% sure, somebody will put me right. . It's a refrigerated container that has been used to ship imported goods into the country, but normally go back empty. What they do is use them to ship our goods back. They are slightly smaller than a 20 foot container. Something like that anyway.