[marybelle]

We are looking into the possibility/feasability of shipping our car.
It is just a year old and to sell it now would mean making quite a loss on it.

Firstly can we take it?
It is a Kia Sedona in UK......in NZ it is a Kia Carnival
It is a diesel.....................NZ only sell petrol
It has 7 seats..................NZ version has 8 seats

I think I read somewhere that if it doesn't match exactly then we can't take it.

If by some stroke of luck we can take it, how do we take it?

Are we allowed to put it in a container and pack our other worldly good around it in one neat package.... or will it have to have its own container?

Sooooo many questions!!

Marybelle

[JandM]

With some doubt about what would/wouldn't be allowed, M has contacted the AA in NZ to have them check the specific details of his car. They're being very helpful. (But we've yet to find out if it will be any good.) You can apparently put your car in your container with your other belongings - you'll find some old threads on this if you do a Search - but it sounds as if what the different shippers advise will vary.

[troutman]

Hi there
We're in the same boat(!) as I want to ship my Subaru across. The link below will give you access to a company of some repute (I hope) that I intend using. There's heaps of info about how to check if your car is acceptable into NZ. You can also obtain an on-line quote.
Having read through the bumpf, it seems they are interested in whether the vehicle has sufficient frontal impact survivability, most modern cars meet the specification.
Diesel is available in NZ.

www.karmanshipping.com

Best regards

Dave and Linda

[catt]

Hi Troutman

i have a question.........if they don't sell diesel in NZ and yours is a diesel what will you run it on?

in fact i have two questions.........if you get it converted to petrol wont that cost as much as the loss in money and the cost of getting it shipped over along with the required documentation that its ok?

i did look into taking mine with me but found out that the safety standards in the european model compared with the NZ one are different and NZ would not accept mine and it would cost over a £1k to get it modified so i decided to leave it here.

my understanding is that if you get a big enough container you can load it in with the furniture.

Good luck in whatever you decide to do.....:nice1

[Kiwi-In-Texas]

Diesel is most certainly sold in New Zealand.


Suzanne.

[kanatakiwi]

diesel is sold at almost all petrol stations in auckland.

[Mels]

Hi Troutman

i have a question.........if they don't sell diesel in NZ and yours is a diesel what will you run it on?



Catt - I think Marybelle meant that in NZ they only sell the petrol version of that car :yes

Mels

[marybelle]

Sorry folks didn't mean to confuse people.

Mels you are correct...what I meant was that the Kia Carnival is only sold in a petrol version in NZ.

I was in a hurry when I posted...I promise to try harder next time:roll

Marybelle

[dylon]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooom

[Kiwi-In-Texas]

If your car runs on diesel and of course you can get diesel in NZ then there shouldn't be a problem.


Suzanne.

[JandM]

If your car runs on diesel and of course you can get diesel in NZ then there shouldn't be a problem.


Suzanne.
There wouldn't be a problem with the car and its fuel - there might be a problem with the authorities letting that precise car into the country as none like it were originally on sale in NZ.

[marybelle]

Thats exactly the point I was asking about J ;)

Just need to find someone in the know to advise me or direct me to the info I need.

Its just too risky to take it and hope it will be allowed on the road in NZ because I seem to remember reading on here that someone else took their car thinking that it would be ok but it wasn't and now they have a vehicle sitting outside their house that they cannot use.:no

Marybelle

[catt]

oops sorry marybelle i misunderstood and thought it strange no diesel .... oh hum another senior moment :exit

[JandM]

Like I said on the other page, why don't you contact the AA in NZ, with all the details of your car (like what's on the plates on the bodywork and engine), and see what they say? You can't do better than getting the info from the horse's mouth.

[dharder]

It is just a year old and to sell it now would mean making quite a loss on it.

Have you bought it new, i.e. will you have owned it for a year by the time you import it? I seem to remember a requirement like that.

The Landtransport website actually tells you almost everything you need to know (don't have the link at hand, but easy to google), they have Factsheets about this. They will tell you exactly what kind of sticker to look for in your car, and what models with what VIN number are importable.

I wouldn't have thought you'd have any problems importing a car that is one year old (as long as you've owned it long enough?).

We imported our car, and every time I look in the driveway and see it there, I'm glad we did (sad, I know). And ours was a 10 year old left hand drive van...

Oh, and yes, you can have it in the container with other stuff. And you can put stuff in the car as well.

Good luck,

Daniela

[cappuccino]

Does anybody know if you can import your car separately from the main container? I brought my household effects over earlier this year and the plan was for my friend to sell my car (Honda Jazz) but it is still unsold in the UK so I am now thinking it might be worth shipping it over here. Will I be allowed a second shipment?

[IanW99]

Does anybody know if you can import your car separately from the main container? I brought my household effects over earlier this year and the plan was for my friend to sell my car (Honda Jazz) but it is still unsold in the UK so I am now thinking it might be worth shipping it over here. Will I be allowed a second shipment?

From the earlier post, the first place to check for details should be here:- Importing Motor Vehicles (http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/importing/)

AFAIK, there are no rules to stop you shipping goods in multiple shipments so can't see why you wouldn't be allowed.

It would be worth reading from the link above regards ownership etc.

Ian

[dharder]

Does anybody know if you can import your car separately from the main container?

We shipped ours three months after the household stuff, and from another country. Wasn't a problem.

Daniela

[jonSE]

All the useful links are above

Diesel or Petrol the only thing that really matters is that your Kia is on the approved frontal impact list.

I wouldn't ship it with Karmann shipping they charge too much. I shipped two cherished 20 year old Porsches to NZ - just put them in a 40foot container arranged by our removals company (Bishops move) along with the remainder of our household stuff that wouldn't fit in the other 20ft container. They have now travelled the same way from NZ to OZ no porblems.

Words of advice
Buy your shipping insurance for cars and houshold goods NOT from the shippers/removals company - Letton Percival get a good write up here or find an agent for Vero Marine in the UK.

My advice would probably be to not ship the Kia - it won't be worth anymore in NZ than it is now in the UK and it will have cost you about £2500 ($7000NZ) to get it to NZ. Further, as a model not sold in NZ it's rarity "value" will be how much extra the spares cost and how difficult they are to get hold of. Even further 2nd hand cars in NZ tend to be cheaper than the UK - as a start try www.trademe.co.nz as a guide to how much the equivalent petrol Kia would be in NZ.

Sorry to pour water on your fire but I'm sure that once in NZ you will be happier with the money you do get for the car burning a hole in your pocket than standing outside the dealers thinking we could have bought that or that or that and have money left for what we paid to get our ultra rare Kia over here.