Importing a car
 

Hey guys, anyone had any experience of bringing a car over here from the uk, anything you had to change or do to it before bringing it? Whats the best thing to do before you turn up at the border with it? Thanks for any advice.

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What sort of car is it? i.e. Is it a classic car or a newish one?

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Start here:

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publicati...f5048-eng.html

before you get too excited.

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It can be done,
I'm bringing my old mini over this year, but it is 15yrs old

the popular method is Roll on Roll off ferry and then rail freight to your location around £1500
Other wise its a contanier at about £3000+

I've been recommended
RJJ Freight are the company that do the RORO bit
SeaRail for the rest of the journey
A+A Customs brokers for the unbonding part

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i know the personal connection which warrants this, but seriously look into the classic car market over here, there are some fine examples around from around $17,000 for a mint mg i saw the other day, virtually concourse, 1973 think it was, possibly earlier, just before they put those horrible black plastic bumpers on for the experts. might be worth while simply saying goodbye and starting again over here, read some horror stories on here from damage, and claiming from the insurance is difficult, i know, i have done it and lost out.

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Personally, I would think that the frustration and long term inconvenience of having a RHD car in Canada would get to you. Think about paying at underground parking garages, dropping off front seat passengers at curbside locations etc, dipped headlights, overtaking on non motorway type roads, paying tolls on bridges, border crossings etc.

It is likely that the LHD version is available here.

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excellent point. i have seen everything from alfasuds, 912/911's, spitfires, mg's, morris, and the ususal old ferraris and maseratis.

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At horrendous prices though! Your looking at 5k for a rust bucket Spitfire that needs tonnes of work. A Mini can set you back easily 12-15k. Load up a container with a dozen mini's (get LHD ones if you can) and make a mint!:rofl:

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Weird the way they pice it. I just shipped a car from New jersey to Felixstowe in a container and cost me $825 (USD) less UK port handling fees (about £250) and the dreaded VAT which will be about £1,200.

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well yes, i did say $17000 starting. look at 911 prices for instance,
http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/...&submit=Search

2x911's from 1971 halfway down, one is 30k pounds, one is 24k us dollars, and they are not that different, especially when you add on the cost of shipping the uk one over here.

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We've done it a bunch of times but always a Canadian car. Face it you can buy a brand new Jeep for 18000 cdn$ and they cost £27000 here?!!!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: If you decide to ship a car into Canada the cheapest is to have it delivered to Halifax Nova Scotia; But when you collect it make sure you have $175.00 for "environmental cleaning" I arrived at 4pm once to pick up a car and it had not been done yet. I could see the car thru the mesh fence and there was a tin popcan infront of the rear wheel. I paid my money and was told to come back in the morning 10:30 when I did the can was still there? Welcome to Canada!!:curse::curse::curse:
Also the good thing about driving a Canadian registered car her in the uk No parking tickets;No MOT;No road fund tax so lond as you leave the country every six months. I have a Jeep here with 1999 plate sticker!

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I brought my MG - mine went in the container with all my other stuff (upgraded from 20ft to 40ft and they built a wall between the furniture and the car). The cost to upgrade container and add the car was GBP900 (Robinsons).

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just get one of these, 4.2l v8 1yr old 30k km $30,000 list.

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I sent a bunch of Jeeps to Switzerland (before Chrysler cut me off). I found it cheapest to send them by air.

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!!!!How Bizarre!!!!