Hi I am potentially looking at bringing in a car from the us. Can anyone who has done it recommend anyone to contact for organising the freight component and roughly how much did it cost to do so.Many thanks in advance
mals69,
Nov 1, 7:28pm
Kwii Shipping (mainfreight) $4500
lookoutas,
Nov 1, 8:17pm
Just put USA in the 'Search' box, and change the time period to 'last year'
cleanbreak,
Nov 1, 9:02pm
Cheers trawled back a year page by page, will throw in the year instead
tgray,
Nov 1, 9:03pm
What are you looking to bring in? Make, model and year?
tgray,
Nov 1, 9:06pm
When I buy a car, the total final bill from Mainfreight is approx $16,000 (incl GST). Granted, they are $50,000USA cars, but simply saying $4500 is very misleading.
bashfulbro,
Nov 1, 10:45pm
Call, Jenner freight and get a price.
mals69,
Nov 1, 10:56pm
That is what they quoted me to their Ch-Ch yard. OP asked about shipping not GST etc. How could anyone possibly give the OP an approximate GST amount they will have to pay, when there was no mention of how much they were planning to spend on a car ?
Fair enough. I guess I meant people asking how much it is to ship a car from the USA is misleading in itself. The actual cost of shipping is minimal. it's everything else that goes with it that people don't realise and budget for, that catches them out.
mals69,
Nov 2, 10:46am
My first post was an introduction to kiwi shipping, OP can see the process outlined on kiwi shipping website.
lookoutas,
Nov 2, 5:11pm
If you searched how I suggested in #3, you will get all the info you need withing the first 15 threads.
mrcat1,
Nov 2, 5:38pm
I have just bought in a hard lid for my new RAM out of the states, the cost of freight was cheap, it was all the associated costs that made it very expensive, like congestion tariff, low sulphur fuel tariff etc. There was two pages of these costs, quite unbelievable really.
mals69,
Nov 2, 7:05pm
What do those charges have to do with a hard lid ?
cleanbreak,
Nov 2, 8:14pm
Cheers to all gives me a few things to look at. Low sulphur tariff wouldn't, even have pinged on my radar. Will need a bit more research. Cheers chris
mrcat1,
Nov 2, 8:23pm
It's not to do with the lid as such, as it came in a big wooden case, 2.5M3 and 194 kg, it is just treated as freight but it's all the costs of transporting the item to the port, the lid came from DiamondBack out of Pennsylvania and was shipped out of Long Beach, and came by sea, it's all the handling costs there and then another lot here where the container was unloaded and then freighted down to Tauranga, the total cost of the freight invoice was about $1600NZ, the actual sea freight cost was about $380NZ, all the rest was associated items to do with getting it here.
tgray,
Nov 2, 8:44pm
My bill today from the shipping company for my latest imports was $28,300 ($19,000 was GST). OK, there were two cars in the container, but still.
mals69,
Nov 3, 12:29pm
Makes more sense now.
mals69,
Nov 3, 12:30pm
"Create not react".
Got to spend money to make money!
neville48,
Nov 3, 1:07pm
If you take the purchase price in $US and double that. thats close to what it will owe you in $NZ in your driveway,or, $US Purchase plus $US2200 L.A to WGTN plus 1 $NZ1450 wharf and unpackaging etc plus Gst on Purchase price and Freight plus allow $US1.10/Mile freight across USA plus 3.2% value of vehicle to cover marine insurance. on a 10k car its as I said, about double in your driveway.
mals69,
Nov 3, 2:07pm
Yeah all adds up, with the exchange rate getting worse hardly worth doing for the average punter who wants a popular yanky with so many here already. See lot more coming up for sale now their four year hold period has ended. See some punters even advertising them for sale 4 months out too from their hold period ending, want to get rid a.s.a.p.
Cannot see the popular ones here going up in value in a hurry re the exchange rate dropping, over saturation of some models. Amount of pre 2010 mustangs on here for sale staggering, and most who want a late model mustang want the 5L not the 100hp less 4.6L.
tgray,
Nov 3, 2:48pm
The exchange rate makes all the difference. Here's an example for you - in 2011 I was selling 2010 Camaro's for $55,000 and here we are nearly 7 years later and they are still worth up to $50,000. That is the effect of a 15c drop in the NZ currency.
Power of the exchange rate, go from a 1 year old car to a 7 year old one for the same money, no doubt higher mileage in most cases too.
tgray,
Nov 4, 11:04am
Yes. One of mine had only 500 miles on it. You wonder why someone would buy a brand new car and then sell it after only two months and 500 miles.
mals69,
Dec 8, 1:14pm
Yes some very low, it like some of the GTS holdens here with low km, the dream did not match reality, or I have had my 2000km of fun and now it is time to bail before it depreciates further.
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