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hi all

i have been seriously concidering buying and importing a gen2 legacy GTB, as i have never done this before i have no idea what problems/issues i may come up against. if anyone has gone through the personal import process please let me know how it went, also if i do go through with the import what problems will i have with servicing/parts/Oz conditions (ECU)

Cheers Julien

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i reckon you should go for it.. especially as matt is selling his car and its a pretty fine specimen which you can get 10k landed..
http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthr … light=matt

i dunno what sort of problems you could run into but as you probably know the ecu will be tuned for 100ron fuel but this can be adjusted..

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deapoNe wrote:

i reckon you should go for it.. especially as matt is selling his car and its a pretty fine specimen which you can get 10k landed..
http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthr … light=matt
i dunno what sort of problems you could run into but as you probably know the ecu will be tuned for 100ron fuel but this can be adjusted..
I was going to link that as well. If you're after a GT-b, that's a cheap, nice looking example, and all the paperwork will be done for you...

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yea and matt is a top notch bloke too.. hell sort everything out for you.. i brought my TMIC off matt, he was a breeze to deal with and the top mount arrived as promised..

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yes it certainly does look like a fine wagon. once it in aus how hard would it be to find parts and get services done.... i know the engine is different to your regular gen2 wagon but are the parts compatible? or will i have to end up having to import parts as well??

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Hey
I never actually fully went through the whole import process but wass close enough when cosidering importing a 300zx last year, but i learnt it works out alot cheaper to have an importing car buisness import it and they do all the modifications which bring the car upto scratch in accordence to your states motor registry, i found that it was just simple things that you have to change like seatbelts, wheels, windscreen and doors. with the buissness it costs between 3 and 5k but yeh looking at that white legacy previously posted it looks slick and i reckon well worth it, but i found that it was a fair bit of hassel importing cars but im glad that i didnt import because then i wouldnt have got my liberty.

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Hey
I never actually fully went through the whole import process but wass close enough when cosidering importing a 300zx last year, but i learnt it works out alot cheaper to have an importing car buisness import it and they do all the modifications which bring the car upto scratch in accordence to your states motor registry, i found that it was just simple things that you have to change like seatbelts, wheels, windscreen and doors. with the buissness it costs between 3 and 5k but yeh looking at that white legacy previously posted it looks slick and i reckon well worth it, but i found that it was a fair bit of hassel importing cars but im glad that i didnt import because then i wouldnt have got my liberty.
thanks for the info, do u know the names of the businesses that operate in aus? that do all the work for you

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Matt's GTB would be a personal import, so you wouldn't need to go though as much complicing as importing a 300zx.

It would just need to meet roadworthy.

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the poeple who were running the import thing only specialised in Nissan unfortuantly but if you just google importers for perth you should find some

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