JDM Import guide/walk through

I bit the bullet and bought a Volvo V60 T6 R Design 2014, it's white and has only done 25k miles. It was bought directly from Volvo as an approved car rather than an auction. Bought through an agent.

The actual car was only around £7k but everything else will cost around 4.5k. surprising how "cheap" the cost of just the car is though.

It left last month on a ship carrier and should be arriving next month. Obviously then I'm anticipating a 3-4 week wait while it gets registered etc. the agent told me the longest part will be waiting for DVLA?

It's definitely been a long wait so far, maybe made worse by the fact I'm borrowing my dad's old honda civic lol.

Only doubt I've had is in regards to sourcing parts, most stuff is available but has to be cross referenced with a parts catalogue (a couple of websites available) and then I have to search for the part number on Google or eBay for example. Will be a bit more time consuming than just using something like eurocarparts
 
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Jimbeam3678 said:
Maybe a strange question, why not just one in the UK? More expensive?
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The model/engine I have bought and wanted wasn't sold in the UK.

grudas said:
I'm in a crazy need of an FJ cruiser and I feel uk prices are a bit stupid, I have looked at goonet and auctions - I don't particularly care if it's higher km(japanese cars seem to be low km usually) what I want more is good colour/spec and oddly goonet dealer listings seem to be similar price to auctions, I always thought that auctions would be somewhat cheaper.

I'd probably attempt both, goonet + auctions to find the right car, and use PCA to deal with it in japan, I'm planning to make my decision by January and start the process then..
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I see you managed to get one, was it from Japan or here?
 
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dacads said:
The model/engine I have bought and wanted wasn't sold in the UK.



I see you managed to get one, was it from Japan or here?
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It was a Japanese import but not by me, an imported had it on the way from Japan and it was the right spec / price etc so I went with that.
 
I assume in Japan they also repair cars involved in accidents? How is that recorded and linked to UK CAT groups?
 
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Just different systems, the UK one is more centralised whereas in Japan it's based on actual condition. R is repaired and RA is small repair. It's sort of better and worse imo, it's not centralised but you get much more info on minor damaged where here you wouldn't ever know
 
My car has landed! (last week actually) Maybe I should create my own thread once I pick it up?

The agent is picking it up from the dock this Friday. Apparently getting the car "ready" only takes two days, but the longest bit is DVLA. Agent said it's a round a three week wait atm.
 
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Won't be long getting the car ready, fog light if needed then MOT

Getting the NOVA is slow at the moment and then after that the application to the DVLA will be a few weeks normally

I'd assume maybe 4 weeks or more, just so you are not disappointed
 
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Axeboy said:
Won't be long getting the car ready, fog light if needed then MOT

Getting the NOVA is slow at the moment and then after that the application to the DVLA will be a few weeks normally

I'd assume maybe 4 weeks or more, just so you are not disappointed
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I did have August in mind tbh, back when I bought it and before it was shipped. Taking into consideration the shipping time and DVLA.

Just hope there'll be some good weather of summer/autumn left :p
 
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