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 Sunset Garage
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| posted on November 20th, 2014 at 08:23 PM |
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Advice on bringing parts over from the USA.
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
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| posted on November 20th, 2014 at 08:42 PM |
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Dave PM.
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| posted on November 21st, 2014 at 11:45 AM |
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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.
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| posted on November 25th, 2014 at 06:37 PM |
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Thanks for the replies guys. Looked into it and found a few non VW, US importers that were more than happy to help.
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| posted on November 26th, 2014 at 12:37 AM |
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Can I ask who they were as Im also looking at shipping some parts.
Thanks
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| posted on November 27th, 2014 at 06:24 AM |
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Don't know if this will be useful for larger items but sounds like it may be a good one for smaller stuff.
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/11/05/12/13/aust-post-sets-up-warehouse...
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