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• Oil and Filter changes 1 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  H.J. is always on about how important regular oil and filter changes are. Can anyone explain why this is and what the main benefits are for this expense. Chris.
• tyres best 9 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  what are best tyres for focus estate. criteria: quiet (very important), good handling i suppose sub criteria availability, price, longevity many thanks
• Toyota Alphard/Granvia/Estima Nissan Elgrand - Grey Import Day vans & M25 LEZ/ULEZ 3 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  Hi Im considering buying a Grey Import Japanese Day Van as a base for a small camper van Im wanting to do some Wild Camping so looking for a base vehicle with 4wd. I live within the M25 so need a vehicle that is compliant with the Low Emission Zone and the tighter LEZ regulations that come into force inside the M25 in 2020.
• Seeking advice : Want to start a muscle car import business 16 Feb 2017 (Forum)
    My questions briefly are: Is the market already too crowded with too many importers? Am I just going to get myself into trouble? How big is the market? What's a realistic annual figure of units to shift?  What kind of pre-tax profit margin can I expect to make on a business like this?
• Citroen Berlingo Multispace - Importing a previously registered UK car 5 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  It was never registered in Greece, as it was over 10 years old and could not be registered. So how do I go about driving it back and re-importing the car, while staying legal and insured along the way? I'm under the impression that I'll need to get it re-registered in the UK to allow me to tax and insure it for the journey back, but I can't get tax without an MOT, and I can't get an MOT without it being in the UK.
• Do people actually CARE about their driv 17 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  Is this lack of technique? I wonder if the problem is more to do with people not seeing driving as an important activity , it's just what you do between work and home or between seeing your customers .So it's not important to be good at it , and as it's dead time anyway you might as well shoehorn in some other activity at the same time.
• Motorpoint Import CoC problems? 20 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  A week last Sunday, I agreed the purchase of a Leon TDI, dutch import from Motorpoint in Burnley. It was there in the showroom already but unregistered. I paid my £500 deposit and was told that the registration process would only take a few days and I "should" be able to pick it up Friday.
• VW Service Intervals 13 Apr 2004 (Forum)
  I've been to my local VW dealer to confrm the above and see when it will need to be serviced - he took a strange amount of pleasure in telling me that as it was an import he could not tell whether it was set up on long life servicing even though he checked VW's database (nice to know the dealers have been feeling the pinch because of imports eh?). All in all he was not very helpful.
• Those wonderful Insurance people 27 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  Just had my Insurance people phone me regarding the description of car, when i originally phoned & arranged cover i told them it was a Lexus Soarer, as thats how it was advertised...when i realised it said Toyota Soarer on the V5 i phoned them but had top leave a message on the answer phone. The person who phoned back says is the car an import?? I said ofcourse its an import all soarers are , she said "Oh i'll have to see what the insurance Co says" Now they gave me a quote for a Lexus Soarer .as they are all imports will this make a difference....i mean how did they give me a quoite in the first place and not know they are all imported???
• mondeo 2002 - mondeo rear brake cylinder cut out 1 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  why is it important to position the rear brake cylinder cut out in line with the pip
• JET1 10 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516271.stm And to think that 55 years on that same badge would appear on a nasty Indian import. Chris M
• where is honest john?? 25 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  honest john has not put anything on this site for a few days, where is he, its nothing important, i just like to know where the regulars vanish to.
• Soarer Fuel Consumption 30 Jan 2001 (Forum)
  I am thinking about a Lexus Soarer, but cannot find any mpg data on it as it has not been imported officialy here. ARe there any international figures available?
• VW Warranty Hassles 10 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  More questioning fell on deaf ears they stuck to the orders are orders line from VW. I was also told that personal imports can only have a two year max warranty which can only be bought before the cars first birthday. However approved imports can buy warranty protection for up to 5yrs. Now all the cars are built in the same places to the same standards why the discrimination with a personal import.
• What are the distinctive sorts of essay writing? 9 Apr 2018 (Forum)
  A very poor effort at spam,  he writes "English"  like the garbled instructions translated from Chinese or Japanese on imported gadgets years ago. 
• toyota Hiace - waxoyl 18 Dec 2012 (Forum)
  Just bought a camper van....Hiace 2001...import from Japan and am told to get it rust treated as they don't do it over there due to not salting the roads in winter. Is this needed?  
• They might have to change the name 9 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  If they import the saloon version of the new Dacia Logan (Built by Renault! it proudly says on the back) The model name? The Lumpi (seen recently in Montpellier) Tim{P}
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  Volvo duett 1964 EPA A-Traktor - Importing or drive back 30 May 2016 (Forum)
  Hi all im looking for some help and advice on how to buy a Volvo duett 1964 EPA A-Traktor in sweden and bring it back to the uk. Would like to drive back...
• I think I give up with it. 25 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  And that any car out of original warranty will blow up a few miles down the road, and it's probably been clocked, badly repaired, dodgy history, imported after being stolen............ I will end up buying nothing............    
• cloned car.or is it? 18 Jun 2013 (Forum)
  a cloned car...to my way of thinking, is a car carrying markings (vin plate reg plate etc) replicating another car.   but how about this........that a car is imported, and an application for registration is presented to a local dvla with a false Certificate of Conformity (CoC) and fake notes purporting to show that Import duties have been paid paid,plus a fake invoice from an overseas dealership...dvla then accept all these docs (perhaps at face value,it would be logical to presume so) and register the car (without ,claim dvla,a visual inspection) and so give it a number plate/V5...car is now sold through a high-end dealership. some months later the car is stolen.