Taking the car???
Feb 26th 2010, 9:47 am
#16
It is what it is Member
Joined: Feb 2010
Location: Blockhouse Bay, Auckland
Posts: 2,797
Feb 26th 2010, 4:53 pm
#17
Happy in Wellington
Joined: Mar 2005
Location: Tawa, Wellington, Aotearoa
Posts: 2,286
Re: Taking the car???
Hi,
We have just shipped our Toyota Celica out here - cost about £1000 plus about $2000 dollars what with MAF and reregistering it. There is no way we could get a similar car here for the same cost (it is very low mileage and fairly new) because we looked into it - so we would have lost about $8000 to leave it in the UK!
We filled ours with good ies and shipped over 6 weeks before we left - sure it was a couple of weeks late - but all those bits and bobs came in really handy while we wait for our container.
I don't think it's the depreciation in the UK that you need to look at so much as how much it would cost to buy a smilar car in the UK - you can check this out on sites like Trademe. Bear in mind though, that there are costs when you get here - like for MAF to do sweeet FA (no, they didn't notice the seeds in the grill at the front or the dead beetle in the gear stick pouch, but charged us $250 for an imaginary steam clean
and we also had to pay over $1000 to have some 'rust' removed from the underside of the car - bloomin' cheek when I look at some of the rust buckets on the road!)
All in all, I am glad we did it, but does involve SOME hassle - but then, deosn't everything about emigrating
We have just shipped our Toyota Celica out here - cost about £1000 plus about $2000 dollars what with MAF and reregistering it. There is no way we could get a similar car here for the same cost (it is very low mileage and fairly new) because we looked into it - so we would have lost about $8000 to leave it in the UK!
We filled ours with good ies and shipped over 6 weeks before we left - sure it was a couple of weeks late - but all those bits and bobs came in really handy while we wait for our container.
I don't think it's the depreciation in the UK that you need to look at so much as how much it would cost to buy a smilar car in the UK - you can check this out on sites like Trademe. Bear in mind though, that there are costs when you get here - like for MAF to do sweeet FA (no, they didn't notice the seeds in the grill at the front or the dead beetle in the gear stick pouch, but charged us $250 for an imaginary steam clean
and we also had to pay over $1000 to have some 'rust' removed from the underside of the car - bloomin' cheek when I look at some of the rust buckets on the road!)All in all, I am glad we did it, but does involve SOME hassle - but then, deosn't everything about emigrating
I wasn't allowed to put anything in my car. And I've heard stories of cars losing things on import, like stereos, spare wheels etc! Though that's mainly Japanese imports at the docks apparently.
