Silvia Club of NSW

who wants to tell him the bad news?

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go on, are they changing the laws or something for imports?

i think to bring the car over with you, you need to have owned it for over 1 year (in japan) and be an australian citizen.

i could be wrong, but my mate tried the same thing with a car from NZ, and he only had permanent residency here.

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Would all the compliance laws apply if it's a personal import? you know, will the owner have to return it to stock before bringing it in?

PS: + 1 vote for staying out of Adelaide. My sister moved there from Sydney 2 years ago and can testify that it is as boreing as bat shit. It's good if you want to save money on rental accomodation though.

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The Golf is like an 16-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.

I thought the personal import laws had changed to 18 months?
But i did think that they were available to anyone because it was my impression that the rules were often used by say Japanese embassy staff and people like that who just wanted to bring their family hack over with them.
That was just my impression though, perhaps if you are embassy staff or whatever you get a special rule.

Either way you havn't had the car near long enough have you?
If you do decide to import it under the normal rules then you will have to have the car complied which is A) not cheap and B) requires the car to be stock as a rock.
At least the 180sx is eligible for import unlike say a WRX which you can ONLY bring in as a private import.

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1990 Silvia

ah, cheers for the info. For the UK you only need to own the car for 6 months abroad, which for me is coming up soon. The other way is to pay the taxes in which case you don't even need to have owned the car abroad. Maybe I'd just take all the bits off, bring them over in a suitcase then buy a 180 over there! Cheers for the info about Adelaide, boring is exactly what I'm loking for! I hate city living and all the people and stuff.

Cheers,
Rich

If your looking for Boring as Bat-shit, then look no further than Brisbane, it's all go during the day, but when it hits 6:30-pm, the city is almost a ghost town, everyone has fucked off to Gold Coast, or gone home to watch TV....

Only problem with Brisbane is their Police sit on a higher mightier horse than other places, and act all tough, they will nit-pick the shit out of you for a car that looks even slightly modified.

I drove around for 9 months in Sydney with bright blue parking lights (yep, I know it's illegal, but it looked good, and was complianced that way), but I never had an issue with NSW police, they would pull me over for RBT (twice in 9 months), they would do the standard walk around the car, and check it looked road worthy, then bid me farewell, and that's it.

Brisbane however, would see me coming in the opposite direction, they would pull a u-turn, chase me down, pull me over, tell me that "noticed something sus", then would check the car out completely, even wanting to see under the bonnet (until I asked them what they required from under there, unless they where wanting to confirm VIN and engine numbers), they would give me a formal warning for the blue parking lights, tell me I had a partial crack in my tail light, my exhaust 'might' be a bit to loud, The wheels looked overly big, and then they wanted to check inside the car, and I was also told by 1 officer that there was no H pattern until I polite pointed it out on the standard gear knob.

Brisbane Police are very nit-picky, but that's because everyone goes home early and doesn't get up to mischeif, so they are bored and target the hoons much heavier.

BTW, from memory, NSW is the only place that for-warns you of things like speed cameras, and red light cameras, the other places just set them up and it's your bad luck!!

B.

Adelaide also has a pretty big import scene, with quite a few events being held. It's also the base of that 'other' forum.

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The Golf is like an 16-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.

you could always have your car imported through an australian importer too.

the car will come here with all the aftermarket stuff, then when it comes time to compliance they will take it off for you, compliance the car, then put it all back on.

since you own the car, you only pay for freight, duty taxes, compliance and there 1K fee for their service.

that will be cheaper then bringing the parts over, and buying a 180sx here.

Queensland... tis a funny place.
Back when I was a younger yobbo I had the police hwy patrol escort me over the boarder to NSW after some highly amusing, mildly antisocial and non-criminal shennanigans.

I was told not to come back or they'd bypass gaol and just beat the shit out of me...




Ah anyway.
Want quiet and not Adelaide, Western Australia- Perth might be the go. It's not great a city (IMO), plenty of work out there though if you like mines (I dont!) and theres a fairly decent import car scene over there.

As a kid I lived in Whyalla and Adelaide was the big smoke

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There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary, and those that don't.

well I'm contact with a couple of agencies in Adelaide, and got the feelers out for some work Hong Kong and USA so I'll see where it gets me. The biggest problem for me working in Oz is the length of time to get a visa. I'l find out about my job here in Japan late Jan 2007, until then its a case of looking busy! My company is so f*cked up, its been like it since I started but I was hoping to at least work my contract until Oct 2007. Bummer, I want to buy a new clutch and stuff for my car but dare not spend any money at all until I find out about the job situation. It will be a very dull christmas this year

Cheers,
Rich