Flood damaged imports

Do you think any will reach our shores, There must be thousands for sale after the tsunami!

Which Floods are you refering to! I would guess you mean the floods in Christchurch/and the BOPthat flooded out thousands of cars or filled them full of sandy mud.Or do you mean the floods in malasia where they have manufacturing plants!
Or the floods in Japan that happened months ago!

well put ,a bit like all the holier than thou who barked and wanted verified speedos on imports,yet N.Z'S have been disconnecting odos since moa ran up my street

kiwi car dealers are allready there, a quick wash inside and out, a trip to rodney wayne to cut off a few ks, markup 10ks, and sell to the unsuspecting kiwis, good return, beats working.

They would,nt get thru certification here.

You wont see them coming to NZ

Some are coming in soon from Rena

some dismantlers have already have them for parts. local lad had 6 containers delivered last friday.

Given you are making a statement of FACT I would assume you have the names of the dealers doing this to report to MAF. Or are you spouting more dribble !

you know the one, greasey hair, white slipon shoes,
and $2 rings on most fingers, talking loud about the last ripoff deal, saw him in linclon rd just last week.

I meant the jap ones Kaz.

Ohh that guy so theres a mirror on lincoln road then!

You're missing the point--what about the oned from Christchurch or BOP!
Much greater likelyhood of getting them than there is of a dealer risking paying the $3000 it costs to import/comply/register a car from japan and having it stopped at the border for flood damage.

Bahahaha

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The jap Tsunami flooded cars with salt water mate, Far more worrying than freshwater flooding don't ya think!.How do the compliers check for flooding once the car has been dried out and valet!

Seriously - You are so far off the truth its comical.

If a car in Japan was salt water damaged it would be subject to an insurance company pay out, and be sold at a japanese auction house as a damaged vehicle. The deregistration papers from Japan will identify the car as a damaged vehicle, and the vehicle will be flagged at our border as a damaged vehicle. The has to be declared legally by an RMVT on the CIN Card they provide at point of sale. These cars are then inspected at the wharf by MAF and flagged vehicles again have to go through strict bio-security.

It just not worth the effort for genuine Dealers. The chances of the car being flagged is 90%, and contrary to the point of view of jerichord, dealers are not making $10,000 margins, in fact in most cases its barely 10% of that.

However since deregulation of the car industry, you are more likely to find these cars being sold on trademe by private individuals. You know the ones. The adverts that say, "Selling because wife doesnt like the colour", "Only selling because I want a S/W", "Selling because I am going overseas".And when you check these people have only owned the cars a matter of weeks, sometimes only days.

These people will lie to you, mislead you, and dishonestly rip you off.And guess what!You have no comeback at all.Sure the fair trading act covers you, but only slightly. If you buy a car from "Joe Arab" off TradeMe, then find out its been re-registered, accident damaged, flagged at the border, has money owed on it, or has dodgy trans and a different engine in it - YOU HAVE NO COMBACK AGAINST THE SELLER.

Now as an Genuine RMVT you have legal re-dress under the consumer guarantees act, sale of goods act, and fair trading act.Therefore most dealers really arent in the business of ripping people off, its just not worth it for us.

But I could seriously place a list of auctions on here now where private individuals are selling cars that are a rip off.I know of a car on here now that was so badly damaged that the manufacturer cancelled the factroy warranty and the car was deregistered. Yet there is no mention of that in the private sellers listing.Yet you bag car dealers!Interesting.

Open your eyes people.The public are way more suspect to deal with than genuine dealers. How many people do you know that now buy and sell cars on the side to subsidise their income! A week wouldnt go by without at least two people asking us if we will sell our trade-ins to them cheap so they can sell them down the car fair.

I agree there are a few (very small amount) of dishonest traders, but compare this to dishonest members of the public and its not even a blip on the radar. Pity Fair Go doesnt put its efforts into chasing the backyard dealers that pay no GST, No Tax, and provide no protection. There are hundreds of those selling cars on here right now. Pity TradeMe doesnt clean them up.

Well said.

well said, point taken, a lot of the private sellers should stick to attending camell and elephant auctions.

#18ABSOLUTELY!

Specialk I was flat out busy yesterday so kept the response brief.
The point I was making was that you are on the flood damaged car front in much greater danger buying a private car that has come from Christchurch or the bop where the cars were filled with flood water.
Post 18 pretty well covers it off.

advantage -You are aware that jeri was takinbg the mickey doncha!-ie refering to "a certain" henderson car dealer.

Anybody want a brand new Thai Honda with wet-look paint finish!

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Weird - some float and some sink, reminds me of something.

Depends on the fibre intake.