julzcary Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Hi folks, Well, I'm one of those that bit the bullet and imported my car into oz, which up until now, has been a pretty pain free experience. However, I'm just struggling with insurance for the import at the minute, and wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of companies that would insure an imported car. Cheers Julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PommyPaul Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 i use shannons, only cost me $120 per year third party for a v8 couple jap import Car Insurance for car enthusiasts and owners of classic and vintage cars - Shannons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 Cheers, will try them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 Just tried Shannons but they are only for 'enuthisasts'! As much as I like my car, I'm not that enthusuastic about it! They've put me onto another sister company, so will see what they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
603304529 Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I've insured a car with Shannons before - and although I'm an enthusiast, I can't see why they wouldn't insure you!? Anyway... Julz, you'll have to do a post, showing the costs involved in shipping the car, and registering it etc in Qld. If you have time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvl Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 We use 'Just Car Insurance', it was the only company we could find to insure an import, we too tried Shannons, but as you say you have to be an enthusiast. Let me know if I can help further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 Just got a quote from 'Just Car INsurance' too. Its a sister company of Shannons. The price was $911 fully comp for a mercedes CLK, which wasnt too bad. A little less than I was paying in the UK. I fully intend to do a post for importing it, when I finally get the car and final costs! I'm hoping that will be next week. As a little aside - if you are intending to import your car - dont bother getting it cleaned, as I had mine done before it left, and I mean it was absolutely spotless. I was going round the car with the valet company noting every little speck of dirt dust etc, so I know my car was mint when it went in the container. I even left the invoice for the valeting/steam clean on the passenger seat. Alas....it has been instructed to be cleaned!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvl Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Just got a quote from 'Just Car INsurance' too. Its a sister company of Shannons. The price was $911 fully comp for a mercedes CLK, which wasnt too bad. A little less than I was paying in the UK. I fully intend to do a post for importing it, when I finally get the car and final costs! I'm hoping that will be next week. As a little aside - if you are intending to import your car - dont bother getting it cleaned, as I had mine done before it left, and I mean it was absolutely spotless. I was going round the car with the valet company noting every little speck of dirt dust etc, so I know my car was mint when it went in the container. I even left the invoice for the valeting/steam clean on the passenger seat. Alas....it has been instructed to be cleaned!! Same thing happened to us, but... it can be sent straight back if it is dirty, so I wouldn't risk not having it cleaned - we even went as far as putting new tyres on ours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 Yep, I did the same lol. Suppose I had it in my mind that it was gonna have to go through it again, so no great surprise there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brummie39 Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 This is of the subject of insurance.. sorry. But my hubby wants to ship his van back home. I know its not a great fantastic car, but my hubby loves it. And considering the cost of second hand cars out in oz, it may be worth our while. Our problem is, he hasnt owned for 12 months. How strict are they on this rule? We do not want to sell it on, hubby wouldnt want to, was just wondering how this rule may apply. One shipping company said they would ship it, but cant promise if it woul be destroyed or sent back at our cost. Any help or advice we would appreciate. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvl Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 This is of the subject of insurance.. sorry.But my hubby wants to ship his van back home. I know its not a great fantastic car, but my hubby loves it. And considering the cost of second hand cars out in oz, it may be worth our while. Our problem is, he hasnt owned for 12 months. How strict are they on this rule? We do not want to sell it on, hubby wouldnt want to, was just wondering how this rule may apply. One shipping company said they would ship it, but cant promise if it woul be destroyed or sent back at our cost. Any help or advice we would appreciate. Thanks in advance. My understanding was that this was one rule that they are very strict on, having said that we came out in 2004 so things may have changed since then... We did have to have our receipt of purchase for the car and vehicle registration details which show the date you registered it in your name - from memory. Sorry this is probably not what you wanted to hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 It also isnt as straightforward now to import your car, so I believe. When I made the application to Canberra, new rules came in which required you to score so many points from a list to enable you to import your car (bit like applying for a visa!). Basically, if I hadnt had a contract to start work (which gave you the most amount of points from memory), then I probably wouldnt have had enough points to meet their requirements. I did put something on a post a while back about it, and included the email with the points on if thats any help. Julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hillfamily Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Hi, We imported a car from NZ to Oz and it has been an unbelievable journey! You have to have owned the car for at least a year, and there is no movement on this at all. We have the car now, but it is still unregistered! We had to have it cleaned, which was fine as we expected this, the next hurdle was that we waited four weeks for DOTR to put the VIN no on the system. Until it is on the system you can do nothing. Just when I think we are almost there we hit another snag! The car has a roadworthiness certificate, and now needs a compliance cert. We took it to the approved places and discovered that it may have been for the Oz market originally as it has a compliance plate on it, but no dates! So, after our second trip to Vic Roads and after them phoning several people in Canberra as they couldn't make a decision, they are now saying we need a letter from Honda in Japan to say the plate is legit before they will issue the relevant documents because it has no date on it!!! Then, I hope that we can get our documents and use the car. I wouldn't mind but it is only a Honda Jazz. Good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest looby1pink Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Hi. we too are looking for car insurance for our imported Audi a4 sline turbo diesel estate. If anyone can help we need fully comp which seems to be the difficult part. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julzcary Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share Posted May 8, 2010 just car insurance was the company I got a quote for and are going to use. $911 fully comp for a 2004 mercedes clk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik_kershaw Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 If I ever went back to the UK I would look at taking my car back to the UK, just because it's not on the UK market and it's great fun to drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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