Hi All,
Firstly I wanted to illustrate how you as Z3M fans are being ripped off. Making a few quid on a car is nice, as a trader making profit is your living, nicer the cars, nicer the profit. but apart from offering finance on the car, these dealers are offering you nothing you cannot get VERY easily yourself.
I keep seeing these cars come up for sale and the pictures that are posted with them all look the same, they are either outside what look like garage doors (roller shutter entrance for auction garage) and inside an empty concrete box (sometimes with a chap driving and hiding his face). inside the auction area.
These are pictures from Japanese auction houses.
The cars are low mileage, they are pretty good condition in a lot of cases, and they are available to YOU!
Having come from a car scene involving large numbers of Japanese imports. Many of my personal friends have imported cars themselves along with a large quantity of forum members I used to associate with. I've seen the good and bad experiences that come with it. Bad experiences are almost exclusively down to bad agents buying shit cars and expectations not set correctly. So rule 1. Find the agent with the best reputation. I would suggest www.japaneseusedcars.com They have a good reputation.
to get access to auctions, you simply send a deposit of about £1000. This is to cover fees, if you buy something, then never send payment. you then get access to daily auctions of thousands of cars. sometimes over 20000 a day.
You select a couple of cars you want to bid on, have a look at the 3 pics, and the auction sheet. It's in Japanese but it's pretty straight forward. you ask the agent to view them. You can set any criteria you want. They go out, inspect the car, and tell you about it in an email. if it's a lemon they wont bid on it for you. they will refuse and email you. if it's all good, they may give you a call in person, i got a couple of phone calls from them (these will be about 4am lol).
If you win, you wake up to an email that makes you happy, if not, your day will probably suck and you will be back glued to the auction site again.
If you win, you pay the rest, and they put the car on a RORO (roll on roll off - like a ferry) and send it to you. you can pay for various levels of shipping on top, and insurance.
before your car arrives this side, you instruct an agent this side to do all the paperwork, you pay your taxes (if you have to, you might be lucky and avoid VAT if the car was originally registered in the EU - some of them have been shipped to japan in the same way you are shipping it back) and then book an MOT.
your lights should be RHD already as the Japanese drive on the same side as us. wire up a rear fog (easy enough to put in an existing light pod) maybe a band expander for the radio as their range is shorter, and or a speedo drive change on the box or some new clocks depending on how far you go.
Now to some it may see like a bit of a pain, you'll just buy it when it gets here. Fine, crack on. to those who dont want to be exploited feel free to check the below link.
http://exportcar.jp/en/component/auc...1UJrTuTyr9oljx
for as long as it works it will list a 37000km Z3m that is being advertised in the UK for sale at £40k. For your information it was bought in Japan 6 days ago for £12226 and will cost the person who bought it, a total of £17k on the road in the Uk. You can purchase it from them. oh...... but with a £23000 mark up.
you are welcome.
Firstly I wanted to illustrate how you as Z3M fans are being ripped off. Making a few quid on a car is nice, as a trader making profit is your living, nicer the cars, nicer the profit. but apart from offering finance on the car, these dealers are offering you nothing you cannot get VERY easily yourself.
I keep seeing these cars come up for sale and the pictures that are posted with them all look the same, they are either outside what look like garage doors (roller shutter entrance for auction garage) and inside an empty concrete box (sometimes with a chap driving and hiding his face). inside the auction area.
These are pictures from Japanese auction houses.
The cars are low mileage, they are pretty good condition in a lot of cases, and they are available to YOU!
Having come from a car scene involving large numbers of Japanese imports. Many of my personal friends have imported cars themselves along with a large quantity of forum members I used to associate with. I've seen the good and bad experiences that come with it. Bad experiences are almost exclusively down to bad agents buying shit cars and expectations not set correctly. So rule 1. Find the agent with the best reputation. I would suggest www.japaneseusedcars.com They have a good reputation.
to get access to auctions, you simply send a deposit of about £1000. This is to cover fees, if you buy something, then never send payment. you then get access to daily auctions of thousands of cars. sometimes over 20000 a day.
You select a couple of cars you want to bid on, have a look at the 3 pics, and the auction sheet. It's in Japanese but it's pretty straight forward. you ask the agent to view them. You can set any criteria you want. They go out, inspect the car, and tell you about it in an email. if it's a lemon they wont bid on it for you. they will refuse and email you. if it's all good, they may give you a call in person, i got a couple of phone calls from them (these will be about 4am lol).
If you win, you wake up to an email that makes you happy, if not, your day will probably suck and you will be back glued to the auction site again.
If you win, you pay the rest, and they put the car on a RORO (roll on roll off - like a ferry) and send it to you. you can pay for various levels of shipping on top, and insurance.
before your car arrives this side, you instruct an agent this side to do all the paperwork, you pay your taxes (if you have to, you might be lucky and avoid VAT if the car was originally registered in the EU - some of them have been shipped to japan in the same way you are shipping it back) and then book an MOT.
your lights should be RHD already as the Japanese drive on the same side as us. wire up a rear fog (easy enough to put in an existing light pod) maybe a band expander for the radio as their range is shorter, and or a speedo drive change on the box or some new clocks depending on how far you go.
Now to some it may see like a bit of a pain, you'll just buy it when it gets here. Fine, crack on. to those who dont want to be exploited feel free to check the below link.
http://exportcar.jp/en/component/auc...1UJrTuTyr9oljx
for as long as it works it will list a 37000km Z3m that is being advertised in the UK for sale at £40k. For your information it was bought in Japan 6 days ago for £12226 and will cost the person who bought it, a total of £17k on the road in the Uk. You can purchase it from them. oh...... but with a £23000 mark up.
you are welcome.
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