Japan - Dublin shipment company??

[kevinod]

Guys,

bit of a long shot, but anyone happen to know of a company that ships cars from Japan (Nagoya) to Dublin, and might have a shipment coming up soon?

FTO is STILL sitting in Japan, over a month since I paid deposit & also over a month since the car was bought, and I haven't even been given a confirmed shipment date yet. I have been trying to be patient but this just isn't good enough!! Originally it was ~25th march, then early april, now they still can't tell me.

To top it off the Euro is weakening against the Yen so its getting that bit more expensive as time goes on...

So, to try to speed things up I'm trying to source a shipment company that might have a shipment in the next week or 2 coming this direction. Anyone have any ideas? I've sent off an email to Declan Furlong in Autoterminal to see if he could arrange anything, and another crowd I found in japan off the web, claims to have a shipment every 10 days coming this way.

tia,
Kev.

[CJ]

Kev, if the company who you bought the car off have agreed to look after shipment, then get on their case (esp. if you have an email to back it up). They shouldn't be messing you about like this, tell them that there are a number of people in Ireland who have been considering contacting them with a view to purchase, mention that your experience is beginning to put off perspective buyers.

Ciaran

[kevinod]

Kev, if the company who you bought the car off have agreed to look after shipment, then get on their case (esp. if you have an email to back it up). They shouldn't be messing you about like this, tell them that there are a number of people in Ireland who have been considering contacting them with a view to purchase, mention that your experience is beginning to put off perspective buyers.

Ciaran

The original deal is for them to ship the car to Dublin alright. I've been getting onto them, but all I'm getting is apologies, no progress, so I'm hoping to be able to come back and say company X will ship it for Y Yen on date Z, take away their excuse that they can't get a date from whatever shipping company they're dealing with, maybe finally get some action.

www.uenajapancars.com claim to have a shipment coming this direction every 10 days, I've sent them an email but no reply yet. Tried emailing Declan Furlong at Autoterminal to see if they have any shipments coming this direction soon, haven't heard back there yet either.

Saw an FTO in the paper last night (Evening Echo freeads) for €4500 I think it was, 95, 2L, dunno whether it was manual or auto though. There was a 1.8 in there too.

Kev.

[soc]

why not try contacting miguel at Newera to see what shiping company they use - don't they ship all their cars to Duiblin before the UK? Maybe they'd let you add your car to one of their shipments ?

[kevinod]

why not try contacting miguel at Newera to see what shiping company they use - don't they ship all their cars to Duiblin before the UK? Maybe they'd let you add your car to one of their shipments ?

Will do, thanks! How do I contact Newera though? Is that www.newera.co.jp? (.com and co.uk seem to be s/w companies) Not on the services page.

Kev.

[CJ]

http://www.neweraimports.com/

AFAIK, they ship to the UK only, I asked them about shipping to Dublin in the past and they wern't too keen.

Did anyone see Miguels RX-7 is the current Jap Performance magazine by the way? Nice piece of kit if a little bit overdone.

Ciaran

[kevinod]

I've sent them an email anyway asking so will see what they say. Thanks for the lead! Bit more google searching for anyone else shipping from Japan to Dublin methinks...

Kev.

[Speedyboy]

Maybe you should try Art from www.webcars.net. He's imported a large amont of cars and knows a bit about shipping.

[kevinod]

Maybe you should try Art from www.webcars.net. He's imported a large amont of cars and knows a bit about shipping.

i've bombed off an email to him too (I really should use the phone more often...), thanks for that!

By the way, in your sig, where it seems to have my ISP, OS and IE version, it keeps telling me "There is no spoon"?? u wot?

Kev.

[Speedyboy]

The messages are random dunno what there all about, Maybe give Art a ring if your stuck, He's very good

R

[Ivan E]

That guy Art was at one stage involved with Jim Rock Motors. I could be well wrong here but I don't think he imports directly anymore or at least he seemed to be winding down his UK side of things a while ago. So it could be just auctions and he seems to be more involved in MX5's than anything else.

No harm trying though.