Importing Wheels

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:46

Spotted a couple of sets of wheels I may be interested in, only problem is they're located in the USA.

Anyone have any experience in importing wheels/heavy items from there? Never really bought anything that expensive (£1500) from abroad and was wondering the best was of going about paying and shipping them here.

Thanks

Howard · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:49

It's going to cost a lot to have them shipped. Is there absolutely no way of getting them in the UK?

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:51

For £3200 yes, for one of the sets, the others are discontinued anyway.

olv · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:52

We definitely need pics of said wheels to comment

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:05

fonzee · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:08

Howard · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:12

fonzee said:

Dup · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:21

Very cool, but you might get similar in europe and it may not cost as much to ship them.

Thomas. PLease. · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:23

fonzee said:

May I be nosy and ask what car they are for?

TomO · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:23

shipping + import duties + VAT.

If £1500 is the price in the US, i would expect shipping to be £200+ at a guess. then import duty is 10% on top of that roughly.

so £1500 +£200 delivery = £1700. import duty of £170. from memory they charge VAT after charging all these so thats VAT on £1870 - so thats £2150ish for the £1500 wheels.

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:23

Hmmm I thought they'd be much more in the EU, however looking on German Bay it seems not!

Edit: Scrap that price is per wheel!

Unlight · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:24

What car are they going on?

Are they BBS LM's? To be honest there is no way I would be putting a set of £2-3k wheels on anything thats not super special. The BBS replicas that are going about at the moment are of a good quality, and can be had for approx £600!

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:26

Unlight said:
What car are they going on?

Are they BBS LM's? To be honest there is no way I would be putting a set of £2-3k wheels on anything thats not super special. The BBS replicas that are going about at the moment are of a good quality, and can be had for approx £600!

BBS RS-GT

I would rather walk than put replica wheels on my car.

fonzee · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:27

NeilMick said:
I would rather walk than put replica wheels on my car.

you may have to anyway when a passer by spots them and haves them away

Captain_Slick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:28

Am I the only one who doesn't get awful looking, ridiculous expensive alloys?

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:30

Captain_Slick said:
Am I the only one who doesn't get awful looking, ridiculous expensive alloys?

May I suggest an eye test?

fonzee · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:30

Captain_Slick said:
Am I the only one who doesn't get awful looking, ridiculous expensive alloys?

in a word, yes.

olv · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:33

Those are some shiny ass wheels. You MUST import them at all costs

Unlight · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:33

NeilMick said:
I would rather walk than put replica wheels on my car.

I'd rather have 2k in my pocket, to spend on drink and women (or some performance mods if thats your thing), and no-one would be any the wiser.

Zip · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:37

Unlight said:
I'd rather have 2k in my pocket, to spend on drink and women (or some performance mods if thats your thing), and no-one would be any the wiser.

Wheels can improive the performence and handling on cars, just depends if ytou get the specs right or not.

Lighter is always better though