Any decent recommendations from recent experience! It's been about 5 years since I last brought a car in. Cheers.
thejazzpianoma,
Sep 3, 4:22pm
John Key (not the PM) in Tauranga is great to deal with and does an awesome job.Can't remember the name of his company. something like tranzamerica shipping. But a google of his name and tauranga should find him. If you can't let me know and I will track him down for you. He is a proper car guy himself as well as very organised.
carstauranga001,
Sep 3, 7:32pm
Trans American Shipping: John Key(07 552 6261) Postal address:159 Te Puna Road, RD6, Tauranga 3176
fordkiwi27,
Sep 3, 7:42pm
kiwi shipping
bashfulbro,
Sep 3, 8:30pm
Jenner Freight. near the airport in Mangere,specialise in classic cars. Excellent
lookoutas,
Sep 4, 12:42am
Just have a look through Petrolhead or NZV8. If they're in there, support them. Have used Kiwi (Mainfreight) into Tauranga, and it was painless (other than the GST) Just rocked in there and loaded it up.
carstauranga001,
Sep 4, 1:27am
Kiwi have closed down.
fordkiwi27,
Sep 4, 1:45am
still going! but mainfreight bought them out.
tgray,
Sep 4, 3:20am
Bull
tgray,
Sep 4, 3:21am
Interested in what your looking to import!
mokaubach,
Sep 4, 3:52am
Bollocks, google kiwishipping.com
carstauranga001,
Sep 4, 4:03am
Sorry, just knew they stopped shipping from Japan. Had no idea about the Mainfreight USA thing. Learn something every day. My opologies.
andrewrender,
Sep 4, 4:12am
Try Alan at Swift cargo. He is based in Henderson
tgray,
Sep 4, 4:20am
I have used kiwi shipping 5 times this year and their service is fantastic. Would not use anyone else.
trdbzr,
Sep 4, 5:14am
Famous Pacific Shipping. They bring in a number of cars from USA.
Thanks all! So far got a quote from TransAmerica @$4500. Sure gone up from 2008 - was $2200 back then! Ah what the hell, right!
les6,
Sep 4, 10:56am
kiwi shipping over there is sweet,when you get this end(mainfreight,wellington)lef- t alot to be desired,downright slack and uninterested comes to mind.
whqqsh,
Sep 4, 12:41pm
AFWE car guys that know their stuff & one of the guys goes over there & loads most of it himself then meets it back over here too
tgray,
Sep 4, 4:27pm
WTF! I just checked my invoice from Kiwi shipping last month. They charged me $2400NZ for freight from Long Beach Ca to Auck, fully containerised.
tgray,
Sep 4, 4:53pm
Be very careful what you import. No restriction on importing cars over 20 years old BUT cars from jan 1990 must meet fuel emission standards and I am told the 200 exemptions granted each year have already been filled this year. This means an early 90's import that does not meet the standard, cannot be registered in NZ until 2013.
lookoutas,
Sep 5, 12:44am
I heard today that the 500 SIV exemptions have gone.
lookoutas,
Sep 5, 1:47am
You can say that again. That cost sounds about right.
What was that 200 figure tgray - or were you on the same track as the 500.
kiwisparky,
Sep 5, 2:55am
kiwi shipping aka mainfreight are the best, long beach to tauranga around $2400. john key charges way to much have had a friend use him and got ripped big time .have bought in 6 cars with kiwi .
tgray,
Sep 5, 3:21am
Absolute bollocks! I just complied a 2012 camaro this month and mine was number 280. People get confused with the special interest permit regarding frontal impact/emissions exemption (200p/year) and the special interest catagory A exemption (500 p/year). I have been told the 200 emission exemption for 2012 is fully allocated (see above), but there is still plenty of catagory A LHD permits left, despite some dealer trying to scare people into 'getting in quick' before the are all gone sales talk. They are either at best, misguided or at worst, lying.
lookoutas,
Sep 5, 3:43am
I've just read all that on line.
Confusion was a customer having an imported Fiat 500 with no ID plate, so the compliance backfired, and that comes under the 200 emission category, which was all new, unknown and of no interest to me. Hey - I'm trying not to laugh at him too. But the 200 has been used up, that's where the story cocked up. So he'll have to wait until next year - and it's a sow's ear.
Thanks for letting me know where the number stands at the moment. Stopped me panicing!
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