Parrallel imports in the news again

[prydey]

I'm not so sure the future is all that rosy if imports are allowed.

who will warrant the product if required?
spare parts availability?
insurance premiums?

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by Rapid_Axe

a. It's already manufactured as RHD
b. The importer (broker or individual) pays to have it converted to RHD.

c. allow LHD cars ahead of a switch to changing which side of the road we drive on.

[CQB-241]

Interesting the tendency to protect official importers of overseas manufactured cars when there has been so little political will to protect indigenously located manufacturers.

[MAGPIE]

Originally Posted by prydey

I'm not so sure the future is all that rosy if imports are allowed.

who will warrant the product if required?
spare parts availability?
insurance premiums?

Most cars older than three years have no warranty, whats the difference.

It's very easy to get spare parts from anywhere in the world these days and cheaply too.

Insurance premiums shouldn't be affected. My LHD import costs no more to insure.

[MAGPIE]

Originally Posted by aussie muscle

c. allow LHD cars ahead of a switch to changing which side of the road we drive on.

D. Allow imports of LHD "Special Interest Vehicles" and trust the owners are able to drive them safely.

[Franco Cozzo]

What happens when you get a lemon from a manufacturer with the 3 year warranty anyway? Its not like we have lemon laws, we still get stuck with the problem and out of pocket.

Is it really any different with imports? Not really.

[Davehoos]

Its only new vehicles that are being talked about.
Public has only fixated on expencive sports cars that make up for stuff all. what about the thousands on mining and industrial vehicles that will flood in as they do now with machinery.

all cars now sold have warranty for life-we all know how good that works.
Its a legal warranty and if you look hard you find that marques or distributors have gone from OZ to avoid these obligations.

I have imported 2 cars and a 3rd in parts. My last job was making imported cars ready for sale and warranty repairs. If you want to do the job just ban used car imports in Sydney and Melbourne. average age of vehicles in Sydney is 6 year old-average age in regional Australia is a growing 15-25 years. with the increase of electronic crap fitted to modern vehicles even government departments are now purchasing used vehicles. I can tell you that they want to import there own vehicles if they could.

[danzvtil]

[QUOTE=prydey;5375831]I'm not so sure the future is all that rosy if imports are allowed.

who will warrant the product if required? The seller will have to provide a statutory warranty exactly like they do now.
spare parts availability? See Above
insurance premiums? Im sure the industry will sort itself out if they think they can make a buck insuring grey imports

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by Davehoos

all cars now sold have warranty for life-we all know how good that works.
Its a legal warranty and if you look hard you find that marques or distributors have gone from OZ to avoid these obligations.

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Sorry, mate, do you care to elaborate on this comment? Are you talking about statutory warranty?

[Sprintey]

If only for LHD... can you imagine

"Ford sales up strongly on this time last year, reversing a decade of losing market share, boosted by a massive increase in F150 and F250 from private importers..."

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by danzvtil

who will warrant the product if required? [I]The seller will have to provide a statutory warranty exactly like they do now.

So instead of a dealer you have to go through another dealer. That's to have a warranty. But any sort of recall, campaign stuff becomes a grey area.

If you import it yourself your on your own. The savings would have to be significant for someone to do this.

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by aussie muscle

c. allow LHD cars ahead of a switch to changing which side of the road we drive on.

Would cause much more **** ache than having the importer paying out of their pocket to convert to RHD.

[falconnut]

How one sided is this

Ford AU wouldnt export the falcon BUT Ford US can import as much as it wants, what a load of crap although i saw this coming 10 years ago when the sales started tanking.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

If only for LHD... can you imagine

"Ford sales up strongly on this time last year, reversing a decade of losing market share, boosted by a massive increase in F150 and F250 from private importers..."

VFacts would be topped by private importers importing the manufacturers products

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

VFacts would be topped by private importers importing the manufacturers products

And they might even have competent marketing teams!