Planning to ship house contents + car at same time Any tips?

[jimbo70]

Hello

We're planning to emigrate in June and to save costs at the other end we're thinking of shipping one of our cars with our house contents a month or so before we fly. (BTW Thanks v much for the helpful thread on the paperwork re importing a car on this site!)

The first shipping co. to visit and quote thinks we've got too much stuff for a 20ft container so would not fit car + stuff in a 40ft container.

So we might be able to reduce the stuff we plan to take a bit. Or maybe we'll have to ship the car separately from the house contents - which presumably will be much more expensive - but at least the car could arrive sooner.

Has anyone done this or got quotes on this? Any recommendations, tips or suggestions on what to do or what not to do?

Thanks in advance!

[PARBUTTN]

Hi,

We have just had our container delivered this week. We transported household goods, car and motorbike in a 40ft. A lot of people on this site advise against it, as it is alot of hard work, however, we are so pleased we have done the process.

The vehicle permits, although they say 3 weeks, with posting to and from it was about 6 weeks, so allow a couple of months for them. they are $50.
The container topped up and extra 2000 GBP by having a 40ft, and we cannot believe our luck in the valuation of the vehicle here. A broker was used to calculate the import customs tax and they have worked on uk figures and depreciation. Tax to be paid was $4000. We was unsure how they would do this and our car in UK was worth about 25,000 GBP and here at least $75K to replace , so for us it has been worth every effort.
You can send your vehicle seperately and I think it maybe cheaper.