do you think ~$5,000 is a good price for this JDM hatch? it's an SiR 5sp w/ ~133K KM (~80k Miles)

 

ain`t bad anyone else think that`s high?

 

~$5k isn't bad imo.

 

forgot to mention - that includes all the taxes shipping and stuff that goes along with it, the car itself is ~$3300.

 

well i wont be able to buy til fall but i was exploring what some importers could locate for me - this is what they found - can mugenef7 find me cars or is he just the jdm expert?

 

depend on what model it is...seriously, 5000 for a 10+ year old car is not worth it. What you also have to worry is that if you can register that baby to drive on the road. It ain't easy as you think...

Jeff-

 

i tried to tell him

 

Yes its worth it, but have fun registering it.

 

not a bad price and registering is a beeeaaach (but i did it)

 

i wasnt gonna register it, i was either going to do it as a show car, or completely swap everything to a USDM crx to make it a 'US' Civic

 

hey..my suggestion is you check w/ a custom agency. Ask them for their opinion and they'll tell you exactly what to do.

Jeff-

 

ONLY BUY IT IF IT COMES WITH THE HELLO KITTY CUP HOLDER!!!!! UHHHHHHHH THATS SICK!!! LOL HAHAHAHA

a few of my friends have jdm cars, my friend has a glass top crx right hand drive ZC which he got for like 2000$ its in pretty good condition but it needed a new motor, so he fixed it and he cant register it.......so he has to say its a custom car or somethin like that.

and another friend has a glass top rhd SiR, without leather and he paid like 4000$ for it, its clean but the glass top is cracked!!! ohhhh ouch! thats expensive to fix, but anyways he is still trying to register it also!!!
good luck!

 

Actually 5K for that CRX.. errr 3300 for that CRX is actually a decent price. But I would check with your local customs agents on clearing an overseas vehicle. Last time I tried to bring one over they destroyed it . Technically its illegal to bring over Japanese cars thats over a certain age for road usage. IF they are brought over it must be as a " PARTS ONLY " car and not as a registering motor vehicle. Trying to register it will only drive you insane.

But like I said, Check with your local customs agency to see what is needed for a vehicle to clear. Last time I checked the vehicle had to be disassembled into 2 or more pieces to be brought over due to fuel fumes and combustion under pressure.

But hell 5K and you dont wanna register it? Go for it. Make sure customs know about it or bye bye SiR it goes.

 

actually..there is a way to do it..but it's very annoying. Lots of money and time consuming. I personally wouldn't go thru. but if you want to...IM me and i'll teach you how

Jeff-

 

Steal a person you dont like's plates. Use them and dont do anything stupid while police are watching. You'll be fine. j/k about the use them part. Go ahead and steal their plates though

 

please post what you went through to register your JDM vehicle, it would make a very worthwhile post. thanks.

 

IT HAS SSR rims on it!

Wil

 

cant you just pop the vin# tags off of a wrecked one and then pop them onto the jdm one and register it as a custom? i have no idea if thats possible but it seems like it would work

 

Thats in violation of DOT law across all 50 states that is punishable by fine and jail time and confiscation and ultimately lead to the disassembly and destruction of the vehicle. Technically the only " right way " is if you can produce documents proving that the car was sent over legitamately with customs clearing papers (almost impossible) proving ownership of vehicle overseas with the original document.

The other " right way " is to chop off the front end and do a RHD conversion to your car which would cost alot more money but less time. The only problem with this is half *** body shops that do cheap welds. But even if, Honda unibody frames are overlapping aluminum layovers. So basically its a peel off and add on. Makes you think how safe your car is huh? hehe.

 

ive done a previous post on how to register RHD cars about 5 months ago here on H-T. Trust me.. Its costly and time consuming. Not worth it for a Honda in my opinion, but maybe for a RHD German M3.

 

i was actually thinking of yanking the plates off those 'you are going ___ in a ___ zone' trailers they post in high speeding zones to slow traffic - there's one in my neighborhood and when i went to pick it up id use it to get it back home - or i might get me a temp tag so i can drive it from houston to denton (north of dallas)....then set it in my garage and tear that baby apart- mugen EF7 - are you in texas by chance? someone told me you could import cars and im just looking if you can find one with a little better interior (the driver's seat is pretty messed up and i'd like a stock wheel too)
lmk thanks

 

Are we all forgetting the Skyline?

 

yeah..skyline's better choice. Why buy something that we already have here? pay tons of money just so you can be true JDM

Jeff-