MaleCortana

Hmm that is interesting I didn't think about that, looks like I'll have to find a guy who handles imports if I don't want to get rekt on import taxes

By mats...I assumed he meant the carpets...like the fluffy kind with cute little logos and stuff.

That...I EMS'd a set for my Mark X and customs didn't care too much....I just declared it as used and I hthey charged a few hundred rupees....only thing is...those things are heavy...so it simply was not worth the shipping cost which was like 8000yen at the time.

But... @MaleCortana will have to find another party to bid and take delivery of the Yahoo auction items anyway as 98% of the sellers on Yahoo Auc Japan will not deal with anyone outside of Japan (issues with receiving payments, shipping, etc...). So you will have to go to Buyee or some other proxy service. 

Also...when they mail it...beg them to NOT put the actual invoice with the items and NOT to declare the actual value. They will strongly suggest they declare the actual value for insurance reasons. Stand your ground and say NO...take the risk of having less insurance.

Yep yep fluffy kind with the logos I usually use FromJapan as a proxy, but yeah I realized the cost of shipping because they are heavy, guess I'm waiting until one of my friends come from the middle east or japan  

There is....but the full job description is "I''ll tighten that one screw inside your dashboard for you and break a few clips along the way".

Jokes aside...sometimes its not just the screws..with heat it is only natural for dashboard components to warp..so even if you tighten a screw it might not seat properly, or the plastic clips will be ever so slighlty loose that it just causes that annoying chili chili noise...

Hmm interesting day by day I'm coming to the realization that the car really is 17 years old and the odd rattle or two is to be expected. Not like any of them are constant rattles and happens when the car is going on perfectly smooth road anyway. I will look to getting other goodies for the car then  

If I were you, I'll be happy buying a 30 year old vehicle for a cheaper price reduced for fixing it up. If the  body is in good shape, I won't be  caring about " how the interior is vandalized and the paint is worn out."

Sourcing a complete interior trim, a good paintjob and with some preferable tweaks will be making the vehicles stunning at a far less price. 

Example A Pajero MK1 with pending works costs 2.3 - 2.8 Million. And a 'good condition' one is being priced from 3.5 - 4+ Millions. Even if it is In "Mint like Condition" you can still be lead to some work afterwards. 

In my opinion reconditioned parts sourced from abroad are way better than lankan ones. You could resell the older parts for cheaper prices. 

@Hashif Riyas...yes...but the point is....these guys lie to you to trvel all the way to look at the car with the hopes that the person travelling will buy the car because they travelled all the way there. Then on top of that...they just do some fake repairs to make it shiny....and 99% of the people just fall for it. Even if one does not care what the condition is and willing to put the time, effort and oney in to fixing it up...it does not change the fact that these people lie and cover up cars and then insist on asking for high prices (especially for popular ""market" cars....because they know that there will be some ignorant guy out there who will pay it). So even a clunker for restoration costs way too much than what it is worth...
and still..you do get your time wasted.

True... Last month, my dad was looking for a 2006 Nissan SK82V DX advertised in ryswn.

The seller was friendly over the phone and told tales like '" Mage Wahane Cataloy gram siyyak thyanawanam Wahane nikan dennam. And all ". and called us repeatedly requesting to have a look at his vehicle and pay an advance. Finally when we went out there ( 150+ Km Ride) . At the first look itself we knew the van was used for hiring purposes and has been vandalized fully. ,Interior, Exterior, and the body have had minor damages and repaired improperly, even the engine sounded bad. The guy didn't talk the way he did over the phone.And was demanding 3.5 Million for that shotload, and was firm in 3.45 after negotiating. (We would have taken it if it was around 3.2 Million reduced for fixing it up) We assume that he was more of a scammer waiting to grab an advance and dissappear... We had to vehicleHunt for weeks.

But, finally we found a 2007 SK82V VX (Highest Grade) for 3.4 Million.( Vehicles similar were advertised for 4 Million+) We had only minor mechanical issues which costed around 30K+ and 2 days and the engine sounds good, interior is okayish, paint is slightly faded but a detailing job would cover it up. 

Had to suffer a bit. But it's worthwhile. Now we could spend 1-200K for restoring it like new (if we want to) and still profit if we decide to sell. 

If car sellers are genuinely aware of their vehicles condition and price fairly.  There would be an awesome marketplace out there. 

Even we are limited with time. But we know how awesome it is to build. 

hmmm good question.. Saw someone has posted good comments. If im not mistaken, he compared it with hangkook or gt radial. And was saying it has very less road noise and no sacrifice in level of comfort either.

Yes I also saw good comments about road noise and comfort, but real question is grip and rain performance, too much inertia in my land boat  😢 

hmmm.. It should be good if the tyres are having the same quality as exporting ones.

@matroska what I have an Axela bro. Well, I hate to accept relatively I found Premio better in terms of comfort. 😕 I guess its partly due to my stiffer suspension and my seats.

I guess along with many other factors, Seats contribute a lot for comfort. My seats are leather, they do not hug you. I hate my driving seat. May be its just me, I have found the seats on most Toyotas super nice. Not the high end autos. e.g. Prius, CHR even the seats on my GP1 was good.

When it comes to seats its something relative as well, it would depend how big you are etc.

As you said Premio is a good car with good level of comfort and 'relatively' one may find comfortable. Not 'THE' most comfortable car ever as the crowds claim.🙂

@matroska...you do realize that 99% of the Premio crowd will be upgrading from something like Doctor Sunnies, E100 Corollas, Starlets, Vitzies, etc..and at most Carina/Corona type of stuff right ? So their basefor comparison and experience/exposure in the first place is rather limited/narrow. Only a very number of Audi, BMW, Merc owning permit holders would actually get rid of their Euro and go for a Premio (most will either horizontally or vertically upgrade their Euro..partly for badge value but also they subconsiously would relaise comfort is not just a soft ride). 

Then after they buy the car, it is it all about finding justification to defend their purchase (after all they definitely are putting down a large portion of their income for the car and for most is the most vlauable thing they own and will ever own). There is also a bit of the whole "Emperor's new clothes" phenomena going on as well. If they spend so much money buying it..and so many of the people they see as successful in life are having it..that means it HAS to be good and most comfortable right ? How can it not be ?

Then again...Comfort is such a relative term. Heck...I find the E100 Corolla more comfortable in most aspects than a Civic of the same generation...but find the B13 Sunny (non diesel) a lot more comfortable than anything else in its class for a city driven family sedan.  

When I keyed out this status never did I think I'll get such strong opinions about the Premio from the AL members 😛 

bruh @iRage unfortunately no the car isn't upbadged 😛 

No the thing is some people had sold for 110, others have sold for 170. Don't want to look back on this and think "damn should've priced higher" 

For that...you will have to check what each car has and see what the condition of each is...so if the range is 110-170...do an educated guess as to where your car would stand depending on the specs available in the local market and the condition it is in.

feck it 180 it is then

Go for a Honda City (sx8) or a EK3

I hate the looks of all honda cars. I wont even keep a honda car even if I was given one free, id sell it the very next day  

lol im pretty sure ur going to end up with no cars but a tuk may be  

Got my vehicle transferred under my name finally on Monday. You need to make an appointment and if you want to go in you need the original txt message sent by RMV or the stupid security guy wont let you in.

Other than that is was a smooth process where i went in at 11.30 and came back and collected the CR sharp @ 2.0 Also no social distancing etc etc. so you need to be double masked/with gloves etc.

Mine was a KL number

Guys if all the luxury tax has been paid, still during the transfer does RMV ask for the luxury tax papers?

Someone bought a new car eh  fedup with the carb presea ?