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Advice on bringing parts over from the USA.

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Sunset Garage Officially Full-On Dubber

213 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·

#1003810
Hi there. My apologies if this has already been covered at length, if it has, and anyone can steer me to the thread, could you please put up a link because I can't find it.

I'm looking at importing some old steel wheels I bought off theSamba.

Has anyone from here done this successfully without it costing a fortune?
Has anyone got any info or leads on who they used to get stuff back? I'm looking at getting back a few sets of steel rims at this stage. But if that all goes well, I will bring more stuff back. I've heard some companies will pack parts in crates with cars???

Anyway I'd be grateful for any advice or leads on how to do it economically.

Cheers, Dave

waltermitty Legend when my beer goggles are on

1,993 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#1003814
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Uber Kafer Wolfsburg Wizard

414 posts · joined Nov 2009 ·

#1003847
yes, the car shipping companies usually charge quite reasonable for 'small' items like that, they prefer them to be on a pallet or palletised box. However there will be a flat 10% import duty regardless of whether your items invoice is below the normal $1000 import duty payable limit. Thats because the whole shipping container is lumped together and obviously exceeds $1000.
I was quoted approx $250 for a pallet from West Coast US to Fremantle, and you could fit a monster V8 on a pallet.

Sunset Garage Officially Full-On Dubber

213 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·

#1004168
Thanks for the replies guys. Looked into it and found a few non VW, US importers that were more than happy to help.

alansvw Wolfsburg Wizard

426 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#1004192
Can I ask who they were as Im also looking at shipping some parts.
Thanks