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Don't give up on the corrado's. You never know, they might change the laws again.
Various corrado's
MK2 Golf 16VG60
Ok, in simple terms ( for a very tired person whos been up for 20 hours ) what exactly is the problem with importing cars to Aus ?
In the Uk, as long as you can prove that it isn't stolen, and you pay the relevant taxes and duty, you can bring in what you like..
a '70's Ford Falcon XB GT sedan for example, never sold here. No problem to import.....actually...can anyone get me one !?
Basically it is not allowed!
If it is allowed they make it hard for you!
Our cars have to comply with "Australian Design Rules" which is our standards and is different to your standards and everyone elses standards.
One difference is child restraints. Our cars have to have special Australia only child restraint mounting points as our children are a different shape to your children. Our 1990/91 Golf GTIs had a bar across the back suspension towers for this purpose.
Golf 2s pre '89 do not comply because of the wipers parking on the wrong side. Our Golf 1 doors are different and we have really gutless engines.
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Post 86 ones park on the correct sideOriginally Posted by syncro
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Mine only needed the child seat anchor points to be made compliant to ADR's. And a bit of surface rust treatment underneath.
According to the guys who done it, it was the only Corrado in NSW so it had to go to a weighbridge and the dimensions were recorded.
Also at the RTA the Corrado didn't show up on their system, since registering mine its now on there.
The tricky part was valueing it for customs clearance GST. It cost me a bit but could of been worse if another valuer had delt with it.
It is a tough system though, i agree on one hand that you don't want loads of ****boxes brought into the country but then again with something like the Corrado only needing child seat anchors then i don't see why an Australian citezen or resident shouldn't be allowed.
We're only talking about a minority of people wanting to do this anyway so i think they should just be strict on whats allowed in, and maybe be made compliant overseas.
The government are making plenty of $$ out of imports anyway.
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Your car was a personal import. Completely different set of ADR's for importing a car normally. It is a bit of a gamble as no one has brought one in without living overseas first!
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I know the ADR's are different, just don't see why you have to own a car overseas before being allowed to bring it in as a personal import.
If the car is safe and good enough for the roads then whats the problem ?
LMAO at the children....i always wondered why my 7 cousins looked a bit odd..
Wipers don't park on the " correct " side ? WTF !?!?!?
What does this mean?
Lots of official imports were like this. My old Audi is a good example. Didn't make much difference to visibilty! But back to child restraints....The ADR is a good thing.Wipers don't park on the " correct " side ? WTF !?!?!?
The child restraints on my private import Golf 2 was just a bolt through a tab of sheetmetal above the tail lights. And this was passed by an engineer!
The wipers on my '86 were disgusting until I changed it to GTI wipers.
How many people here still have the child restraints bar on their Golf 2?
How many people here know where the child restraints are on a Golf 1?
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