Skillachie

I created this thread so we all could help each other out on finding parts/items for our V's,
from ebay to craigslist etc
Help a another CRV brother out if you find something

Skillachie

This is a good one

Thanks to mrnicolas for the hookup
alot of people were looking for these

noname87

It's so hard to find crv parts online. Really wish there was a way to get ahold of somebody in japan to get parts directly from them

Sticker Bomb

I have a buddy that's always going to china, as his wife lives there. We have been working on trying to get deals on parts from there, but it's a pain.

Skillachie

well its up to us to hook each other up

LDForget

if anyone wants more readily available front mud flaps, the rear flaps off a 99 cougar fit great in the front of the V.

Skillachie

Odd

PhilStubbs

If anyone hits a junkyard, I need these 3 circled brackets and the one that holds the top of the a/c condenser. Don't care what color the condenser bracket it, I can paint it

FeedBack159

my brothers friends in the airforce. he is stationed in japan. ill talk to my brother and see if he can ask his buddy to ship parts over. if he can. ill let everyone know and ill make a list.

Skillachie

77777

i know a guy who is a broker, he got me a lot of good stuff for my fd and my gtr, but man when i asked him about getting crv stuff he could not have seemed less interested. i could try to follow up, but i mean honestly unless i ever do get a second cleaner crv i am probably not going to really have a dog in the fight..

noname87

GTR? unless it was an R35, how did you legally own one?

noname87

he could make a killing off of Fullmark conversions.

Mirage99

I've contacted these guys in Toronto http://jdmengineland.com/
They used to have some Fullmark pieces for sale, tailgates, etc. Currently have a bunch of jdm doors, hoods, fenders. Said they are looking at bringing in more Fullmark pieces.

noname87

Found this on a CRZ page randomly. Thinking about giving it a shot. all the JDM stuff we want here is dirt cheap over there.

Introduction

It’s been long overdue for me to write this, since I said that I would do it a number of times on the forum. Ordering stuff from websites that are in a different language can be a little intimidating, especially when you’re shelling out for hundreds of dollars worth of JDM parts. This DIY should give you the basics of what you need to do to order parts directly from Japanese websites, particularly rakuten.co.jp. Since most of these sites don’t ship internationally, I utilized a forwarding service, Tenso.com, to do the international shipping. The shipping can get a little pricey, especially for heavy/large items, since they will only ship by air, but it always comes extremely fast; faster than I when I order parts from within the US!

To give an example of the costs involved, I ordered some JDM body-colored splash guards from a vendor on rakuten.co.jp, which cost about $200 shipped to Tenso. Once Tenso received the package, the charges to get them to me were about $35, including their service fee. Their service fee comes out to about $7. You’ll be surprised to find out that getting items directly from Japan can sometimes be cheaper than getting the same exact items being resold by US retailers, even with the shipping, but usually it will be about the same. Rakuten.jp is where I have found the most of items that I have purchased from Japan, so that’s what experience this DIY is based on. The only thing you can’t get this way, are Honda parts that are not accessories. I have a different way of getting those, which I will go over at the end of the DIY.

Currency Conversions

There’s a bunch on the internet and I’m sure you already have one that you like to use. I usually just type it into Google and it just does the conversion. An example of what I type is:

99999 jpy to usd

With the answer, it will bring up a small currency converter on the search results page, which you can enter additional currency conversions as you shop for other items.

Get Google Translate Plug-in for Your Web Browser

It’s a lot nicer to shop when you can understand the pages that you are looking at, so getting something that works with your web browser to automatically translate pages for you is pretty much essential. Google translate has worked really well for me and that’s what I recommend. I normally use Google Chrome for web browsing, but sometimes the Google Translate plug-in for Chrome gives me some trouble when adding things to my cart, so it may be necessary to try other web browsers if you encounter issues. For web browsers other than Chrome, I think Google Translate comes with the Google Toolbar.

Register with Tenso.com

Tenso is a forwarding service that will receive your item from a Japanese retailer and then provide the international shipping to you. When you register, Tenso will give you a shipping address that you can provide to Japanese retailers, which has a unique number within the address that will be used to identify that a package is yours. When they receive a package sent to your unique forwarding address, they will send you an email saying that your package has arrived and you will then need to log in to complete the order. Registering with Tenso is pretty easy, since everything is designed with non-Japanese customers in mind. They have a few guides on the website to help you get familiar with how the process works, so I recommend that you look through them until you get comfortable with everything.

Link to Tenso is here:

Forwarding service connecting overseas customers and Japanese online stores [ Tenso.com ]

Using Your Tenso Address

My experience with Japanese online retailers is mostly through rakuten.co.jp, which is kind of like the Amazon.com of Japan. I had a little issue with figuring out how to input my Tenso address, since it’s not exactly straightforward on which part of the address need to be entered into which address field, but after a little research I got it figured out. There is a guide on Tenso, but I didn’t feel it was very clear, so I’ll try to explain it with an example here. I’ll use my address as the example, which will probably be very similar to the one you get. Each part of the address will be color coded to make identifying them a little easier. I don’t actually know if what I did is 100% correct, but this is what I did and it has worked every time.

My Tenso Address:

〒120-0023
東京都 足立区 千住曙町４２－４ ＴＳ125103 通販商品配送サービス ＴＥＮＳＯ 取次ぎ

The Breakdown:

Postal Code: 120-0023
Prefecture: Tokyo(東京都)
City, Ward (Island): 足立区
Rest of Address: 千住曙町４２－４ ＴＳ125103
Company Name/Organization Name: 通販商品配送サービス ＴＥＮＳＯ 取次ぎ

And that’s basically it. The address was the only thing I had some confusion about, so everything else that you would need to enter is pretty straightforward and you should be able to figure out. Also, try not not to send items to my forwarding address in the example; I will gladly ship your stuff to my house and keep them!

Shopping on Rakuten Ichiba

I really only have experience with shopping on Rakuten Ichiba (rakuten.co.jp), which has pretty much any part that you would want for your CR-Z. There is also global.rakuten.com, which is supposed to cater to international customers, but the selection of parts is pretty limited and I haven’t found it to be very user friendly. It might have been an issue with the vendor, however, so you may have some better luck with it than I did. But until that's figured out, I prefer rakuten.co.jp and shipping with Tenso more.

Anyways, Rakuten is basically an online marketplace where various vendors have a store to sell their items. I usually just try to order from one vendor at a time to keep things simple. Each store will typically have quite a few things from the same “type” of item that you are looking for. If you want Spoon stuff, the store will typically have the whole Spoon parts line up. If you want JDM Honda Accessories, they will have pretty much all of them. Same thing for Beatrush products, HKS, etc. Also, many of the sites will use the manufacture part numbers, so if you know the part number, just type it in Google, include "rakuten" as one of your search terms and you should find it.

Here is a link to the Rakuten Ichiba main webpage:

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/

Payment

One issue that I encountered with Rakuten is figuring out how to pay; some vendors didn't have any payment options that I was able to use. The available payment options depends on the vendor and there's just going to be a few that you won't be able to buy from. Try to find out as soon as you can, by adding an item to your cart and clicking the red "checkout" button to see the shipping options on the next page.

Shipping

There will be some shipping options as well. It might not be clear on which one you should choose; it wasn't for me, so I'll give it a mention. I usually choose "courier", which is the usually the first option, to ship to my Tenso address. Usually you can eliminate the options until there's one that kinda makes sense.

RHDJapan.com

Another good place to look for JDM stuff is at rhdjapan.com. This is where I got my HKS LA clutch. It's all in English and should be pretty easy for anyone to use, so I don't need to get too in depth about it. One thing to keep in mind though, is to NOT order in US dollars; their conversion rate is horrible. Order everything in Japanese yen and let your credit card or PayPal do the conversion.

JDM Parts and Racing Accessories direct from Japan: RHDJapan.com

Ordering Non-Accessory JDM Honda parts

While OEM Honda accessories are available on Rakuten, all other OEM Honda parts are not. For example, I could not have gotten all of the parts for my power folding mirror conversion from Rakuten; those are typically only available from Honda dealers. I only know one way to do this and it’s somewhat expensive, but we should just be thankful that there’s an option…

Japanparts.com

The website that I use to get my JDM Honda parts is japanparts.com. They also sell JDM Honda accessories, but they tend to be much more expensive than what you could get from a Rakuten vendor, so I wouldn't recommend buying those from them unless they had a sale going on. They also have a forwarding service as well, but I haven’t used them yet. If someone wants to try, please reply to this thread with your experiences.

Anyways, the main page that I use to get the JDM Honda parts, is their unlisted parts inquiry form. There are only three spaces for three parts on the form, so if need more than three parts, then you'd have to send a few inquiries to get all the parts that you need. It'll usually take a business day or two for them to get back to you. They will recognize that all of the inquiries are from you and email you a link with all of your parts together on one page. Link to the inquiry page is here:

Inquiries for parts unlisted on our web site

Anyways, that should get you guys started with getting parts direct. Reply to this thread if you used this method to get parts or if you have another method of getting parts from overseas, especially if you can get access to EDM parts. Thanks

noname87

Every 100 yen is equal to $1.02 just as a reference

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h179841353

http://page19.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/x308189335

http://page21.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/j241365854

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e120436627

http://page3.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c399724898

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d146444927

http://page22.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/l210567437

http://page14.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/s349570039

Skillachie

Thanks for the info man, might look into this

noname87

me too. there is a lot of money to be made just off ebay by doing this. been using ebay to make money on 96-00 manual clusters with a tach. buy for 30, sell for minimum of 80 each

77777

i dont think i said anything about legal haha

PhilStubbs

From what I hear most people use 240 titles for them

77777

i never titled it. i drove it a few times, started bulding. drove again one day, impellar for rear turbo exploded taking cylinder 6 with it. spent about 5k on parts to get rebuild going..well lets be honest, big turbos and a bunch of other fun stuff too. lost job, forced to sell. guy i sold it to didnt have problem getting a title, he had another 940hp drag gtr he brought back from his military service over seas. old guy actually. then some little *** kid bought it, somehow managed to not total it, actually got emailed a link to it on craigslist this past week.

you can do 240 titles, kit car titles, some states will just title them by adding zeros to the vin because they dont know any better. i was planning to get a 240 shell and steal that title yeah, seemed easiest. i mean how to guys title their ctr's? i mean i almost traded for a couple at various points, i never asked. i would gladly rade my 350z for one now that i have a nice big secure garage and security and soon video surveillance. and a lot more guns than the last time i owned a civic.

anyway, i did an ebay sweep earlier i dodnt see anything new or special. its a hassle to dig through a lot of junk ricer universal junk with crv in the title.

try feastauto.com, thats a guy i have used with good results. he can get upgarage stuff, i know you can find some neat crv stuff on there. i no longer really browse it. and i always liked rhdjapan but i think they shifted away from used stuff a few years back.

Skillachie

97-01 Crv Edm Rear
newyork.craigslist.org/que/pts/4088841211.html

97-01 CRV bra and 2 OEM Honda bike rails (bergen county)
newjersey.craigslist.org/pts/4100805699.html

gxr154

If anyone knows of a rear edm bumper with the edm tag space and rear fogs please let me know...thanks...

gxr154

Here is a link for the edm rain guards...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HONDA-CRV-MK1-97-01-5DR-WIND-DEFLECTORS-RAIN-SHIELDS-/260282431929?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Model%3ACR-V&hash=item3c9a0ab9b9

Skillachie

97-01 Crv Edm Rear
newyork.craigslist.org/que/pts/4088841211.html

That was in my last post gxr154