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[CJ]

Worth a look:

http://www.carex-japan.com/

They have a '00 white 3.5 grade manual GPvR for €7k, I'm tempted but you would expect a late model to be at least grade 4. Mind you the grade 4 '95 manual GR is well priced @ €2800. I tell yeh, it it wasn't for that damn VRT ...

CJ

[kevinod]

Hey,

I'd advise you guys not to touch cars that are in Japan at the moment - shipping over this direction just isn't happening, still waiting for shipment for mine since the start of March, they don't even have a shipping date yet!!!

Pulling out altogether if they don't give me a date by the end of this month, would be very surprised if they did.

regards,
Kevin.

[Kace]

Why what's the problem with the shipments ?

[kevinod]

The story I'm getting is that there are more new cars being shipped from Japan lately, and they get priority over used cars, so just no space on the ships for the used cars. They're supposedly backed up all over Japan.

I guess you can understand high volume repeat business getting priority over used car exporter shipments, lower volume.

All in all means they can't ship my car and no sign of it changing at all.

Kev.

[CJ]

All in all means they can't ship my car and no sign of it

Thats bad news Why not send a mail to Newera asking if they are having problems, maybe the other co. are spinning yarns...

CJ

[kevinod]

I've heard it in other places too, before I had mentioned anything, so it looks like its true... might be worth popping off an email alright though to be sure.

Heard somewhere that a ro/ro car carrier with 1098 cars on it went down near Singapore? Haven't seen it anywhere on the news or anything, and 1098 sounds like a few too many cars to have on a ship at once, so I'm a bit sceptical but sounds nasty if it is true.

Kev.

[CJ]

I
Heard somewhere that a ro/ro car carrier with 1098 cars on it went down near Singapore?

Try 4000 Good thing they're only Hyundais

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040525/15/3kkal.html

CJ

[kevinod]

3000 hyundais and kias, and about 1000 jap used cars, must be where that figure of 1098 came from. Must be some ship, didn't think you'd get that many cars onboard at once!

Kev.

[JD]

That'll be some insurance claim!!!! Those car transporter ships are absolutely enormous and they have a series of decks on hydrolics, so they load up one deck and then raise it, load up another and raise that right up underneath the first and so on, so they utilise ever bit of space.

Engineering at it best, if only they could stop them sinking that's the second one of those ships that I heard of going down in the last couple of years.

JD

[Speedyboy]

I remember once reading that Lyods in London are the only ones in this side of the world who can cover those huge risks like aircraft and ships, Although sometimes the way QD carry on its like trying to insure an aircraft carrier !

[Mustang]

Kevin,
I was looking at an FTO in a local dealer's recently, and he was saying that it's almost impossible to get a car out of Japan at the moment. Looks like these guys are not spinning you a line

Ross

[soc]

Kevin,
I was looking at an FTO in a local dealer's recently, and he was saying that it's almost impossible to get a car out of Japan at the moment. Looks like these guys are not spinning you a line

Ross

Bugger, so how is anyone supposed to source a late face lift model -

[kevinod]

Ya, thats what I seem to be hearing alright...

but as I've said to them, its at best irresponsible to enter into this kind of agreement without being able to guarantee shipment of the car within a reasonable amount of time -> nearly 3 months at this stage! 3 months tomorrow in fact since I paid the deposit, they received it on the 2nd March, bought the car on 4th March.

Thanks for the info though!

Kev.