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Two words Shipping container

Well im currently the cropping and machinery manager on a little 9000acre farm over here! Little place called Quindanning in Western Australia, was only meant to come over here backpacking, but with the job market at home going to crap, I thought I would weather the storm over here! Awsome place tho!
As for shipping it over here, stuff like IVA and whatever is apparently alot more tricky over here, and im not sure how it would work, IVA'ing and registering it in the UK then getting it over here!?

You could ship it over no problems.You would need to look into the fact that u will be hit with 10% get and 5% import duty on the vehicle most likely,they will also add the cost of the shipping into the price.Getting it on the road would not be a problem,u need to get an approved engineer to inspect it under construction a couple of times and then when finished.He will then sign off on it and you can then get it registered.I will try to remember and send u a handy link to my car club in welshpool in WA.

A guy that worked here sent a xjs v12 convertible to auz. From memory he paid about 6k for it but had a bit of work done on it here before it went and by the time it got there to his door it was six months. Worse than that with all the charges ,customs,storage ,shipping and handling it came out the same money as an auz one, over 20k. He was unchuffed, he reckons that customs there can jerk you off with the paper and bullshit for as long as they like and its costing all the time they hold it:eek: I suppose if you know the system there are easier routes in but that was his experience. On the Flip side I needed a screen for an old hq ute i have got and he shoved it in a box for me and by some miracle it made it all the way here intact with no problems.

Bob

Cheers guys, I looked into a container to bring a load of stuff of mine over here, from memory the shipping charges were around £2400 for a full size container, then abit more tax on top.
Thanks again for your replies!
Jason

im just busy juggleing my 12week old, wife, work and working on my own roadster

dont worry i still love all you guys and girls i just need my space its not you its me :D

must be the lympiks on the box or sumfing :eek:

Bob

Out walking the dog
 

My good lady wife & I spent the afternoon walking the dog, not very often I am fit enough to do so these days.

Well I say walking the dog .... We decided to walk the footpath just accross the road from our place.

Aww, that's nice I hear you say !?

Nice wasn't really the word for it .... Feck me, that bleeding footpath has certainly boecome very overgrown in the last 18 months ( personaly I blame the Pixies )

Quarter of a mile in it became very dense, so I picked up the dog so as I could carry him, just as well he is a Yorkie, poor little bugger was getting stuck in the brambles.
I left the other half to follow on behind.

know I shouldn't larf but !! .... My wife is only 4ft 10" & I didn't notice that I had left her a fair way behind.
Got to the end of that section of footpath ( Little cross roads between 2 fields ).
Turned round to see where the wife was at, all I could see was the thick weeds, brambles, thistles & nettles moving about in the distance .... All I could hear was Ohh, Oww, Ouch, Bu**er, " what the F**k did you come this way for " :D :D

She finaly emerged & was definitely not amused when she saw the next section of footpath was even worse.

Needless to say, being a true gent, I dragged her accoss 5 fields of planted Maze to a more suitable footpath.

Gone most of the afternoon & only covered about 4 miles doing a small circuit of the valley. :o

Oh well at least the dog is knackered, hes not looked to go down the road this evening.

Nice & sunny though. :)

Well I was going to take the bike out for the second time this year but the lord is having a leak so thats that. Off to the cafe then for cholesterol bomb then have a fiddle with the roadster:)

Bob