John and Alexa

Just remember that it's not the RAC that have the final say on import approval though

Totally - more happy at the thought that someone might actually listen to circumstances rather than an absolute no.

During the time I guess I will need to look at other options like exporting and re-importing etc but really wish that doesn't end up being the case otherwise my track car might have to wait a little longer ;P

I have mulled over this one a fair bit - whether it would be possible to bring a vehicle over on a carnet, use it here for 12 months and then cover your qualifying period for keeping it here as a personal import.

 

A CPD Carnet is issued by your AA not by DIT here in Canberra, so it would be up to them to decide whether you're allowed to have a carnet when you're technically not coming to Australia on a tourist visa. I'm not sure how the carnet process works in the UK.

 

At a minimum, if you were able to get an import approval as a personal at the end of carnet, you would need to export the car, re-import it and pay all the taxes and duties you didn't pay when you first arrived. It would just be a matter of finding the nearest country that could store the car safely.

 

Given the fines for getting it wrong are fairly hefty, I DON'T advise trying it. If someone were to ignore my advice and give it a shot though, I'd be very curious to see how they managed to pull it off...

Some good news on this after speaking with the RAC here in the UK. It seems that after taking out the Carnet here for 12 months (all questions logged about the fact we are possibly going out earlier than first thought) that there should be little problem in changing it to a full import once we have full residency. Should this take longer than the initial 12 months then we will lose the 1.8k and have to pay another 0.9k for the following 12 months in which I hope all would be sorted out.

The RAC seemed to think that this was becoming not common but at the same time not an unusual scenario and that every case would be assessed on merit.

Fingers crossed that this maybe the case as with all the cash lost in cars this year I really don't want to be losing anymore .

John's after a GT-R? Step into my office... :biggrin:

He is looking at getting a R35 as he cancelled his order a couple of years ago as it never turned up when it was supposed to as we where meant to meet with Nissan at Le Mans with it, so it became a little embarrassing lol.

I know he is also interested in the R34 track car you have or the 324R D1 as he was in talks about the 324R with Miguel (Newera) a while ago but as we didn't know what was happening we went without.

PS You were crazy not to bring the Porsche over!

Hahaha yeah, John is a little crazy when it comes to cars!!! Apart from being clueless on how much it would cost to land the porsche until it arrived in Oz, John wants to go back to the GT-R's so the decision was made

Hiya

Although we have submitted our application for the 176 visa I may have an opportunity to come over to Perth in Oct on a 456 visa which is a lot sooner than we intended but a great opportunity all the same.

With all the hassle of importing my Porsche I decided to sell it last month and bought a spanking new Yamaha XT1200z Tenere.

Now the obvious question is although I have only owned the bike a month tomorrow can I bring it over on a Carnet for 12 months and if my perm visa is granted in this time pay the duty to have it as an official import.

Not going to sell here as only has 4miles on the clock at present and a stack of parts on route for it too.

Thank you for the reply - will have to look into it a bit deeper I think

Hi Iron Chief

We too are in a dilema whether to import our car. Its a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo with 45k miles. We paid 34k for it 6 months ago but we are not likely to hit aussie shores for another 12 months. Is it worth paying all the import tax (as we don't seem to be able to get a rough estimate of how much tax it will cost once landed) or should we think about selling it in the UK? Any thoughts??

Thanks

John

PS I like the GTR 34 track car you have on your site & could be tempted with similar if you can find one when we land :-)