This post is actually two weeks late but I have bean distracted buying a house
So my Full Fat is finally on my drive after saying good buy to it on 29th May.
So for all those interested here is the proses of a personal import to Australia
First own and use the car for 12 months min before departure and apply for permission from the Australian import authorities.
this is very involved as they required allot of info including a copy of every page of my passport but the email server wont handle large files so I had to send every thing in seven different bundles without knowing for six weeks if they had every thing ( which they didn't)
Then I export the car , I used a container because we took the wife's T5 as well. The car then arrives and is held by customs until an agent is appointed and they arrange for me to pay all the tax fees and tax on the fees and a bit more tax.
The car is then placed in quarantine where I'm told that it has mud underneath and is a hazard . It costs a further $660 to steam clean and melt the insulation wadding under the bonnet and strip all the wire sheathes of my suspension hight sensors and TPM ariels () )
The car is the released to me but it is unregistered and not type approved for Australia so you apply for a 48 hour temporary movement permit and drive to a test centre and pay a bit more money and the car is failed on the spot for not having type approval and they can't read the engine number I give the engine number from the V5 but am told it must be seen so I will have to strip all the protection of the engine ( more )
But I now have the paper work for a Personal import plate so I send it off send wait a week or so .
Once I get the plate I stick it on and apply for another temporary movement order and head off to be inspected ,I pass because the inspector got the engine number of the V5 ( ) I now register it and buy my Rego plates job done.
Is it worth it ? Well, it is now I have done it but that brief description doesn't express the frustration and hassle .
And when I went to insure it every quote put the value at $90,000 so you do the maths  2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

I once shipped a Discovery 1 V8 from Victoria to WA.

Got it equipped with the regulation immobiliser that WA rego rules decree is law and then off to get it inspected. The chap spends 10 minutes looking it over and hands me the certificate. All he wanted to see was the VIN and see the engine. Not bothered one bit by the expensive immobiliser.

Spoke to an Australian friend about it later that day and his comment... 'Ya gotta love WA!!' He was right, too.

I hear other states are far harsher.

Glad you got there in the end. Where in Perth are you? Si. <This is my name.

I eat rat poison.

A man ain't truly been insulted until he stands buck naked in front of a woman and she didn't even notice. Or care.

I'm renting in beautiful down town Bedford right now which is great for the city but I think we have bought a house in Alexander Hights as its all I can afford right now for some thing nice with a pool, 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

Pictures ?? MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Coming soon , just waiting for it to stop raining ( oh the irony ) 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

Just like the "original" Perth, rains all the time there too!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Once sold a caravan to an aussie guy who asked me to strip the regulator and gas pipe out, and ensure all water pipes etc were clear, and paid me a day rate to do it...then paid storage, and £1.20 a mile to take it to Portsmouth for him...I sold it for £15k and in AUS it was valued at $55k so it does pay to import from what I can see Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

By the way , I'm not in too demonstrative displays of emotion but me it's nice to have the old girl back ( you have no idea what it is like to drive a Toyota Corolla Accent for two whole months )
Oh and it started first time , I am starting to think my experiment with a deep cycle battery might be working out . 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

Lets see if the new government over there starts dialling back some of the ridiculous taxes that have been imposed over the years.

Oz is supposedly one of the most expensive countries in the world for buying electronics for example. And the protection of their own car manufacturing industry seems to be failing as well with plants being shut down.

And some of the big offshore projects are being shelved or changed due to the cost of labour being so ridiculously high.

It is the bloody union leaders that first destroyed the UK industry, they moved to Oz and are doing the same over there, killing the industries by going over the top on payments/benefits and protection of jobs.

Sorry for you that you paid the full amount (when I imported my gear it was still doable) but I hope that it changes soon (in case we move to Oz in the future ). MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Maybe I should export my caravan then lol!! FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.

Nah leave the caravan here …. Just export yourself ….






Couldn't resist Will

The company I work for sends big plant and first time round got stung for the cleaning £10k so now everything is cleaned and repainted like new before sending

When I took the plastic trays off from below the engine whilst looking for the engine number they were full of mud anyway so all the damage and expense was the usual complete waste of time , typical government sponsored knob jockeys
The trouble is to have the cleaning done you must sign a form saying any damage caused is entirely your own fault  2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis