nixy

Hi there. The last couple of weeks are the longest. Just don't drive it into a flood when you get it like I did!

Sarnie can't we ever escape from you? Don't hurry back, it's raining again!

Mmm you could be right I suppose.............

www.jm-imports.co.uk That's all I've got at the moment from my mobile phone camera - not had chance to take any nice ones

+1 I came here cos it was cheaper - in fact it was free! Glad I did. I'm not one of the wierdos either.

Nixy - that is a very girly description of a strut brace don't worry I haven't got teddy bears sat on it yet!

I could write an essay about this but I would only end up with an anger induced migraine! Needless to say - prisoners should spend all day on a chain gang doing the most mind numbing job possible like building a brick wall only for it to be knocked down and make them do it again. When my husband was a copper many many years ago people used to get a slap in the back of the van and told to behave - the countrys gone mad and it starts with schools not being able to discipline kids who no longer have respect for anyone!

Not sure to be honest - its that daft bar in the middle that gets in the way unless your case is not to chunky then it might fit underneath it.

wonder how many people they think play golf? I agree with the rear seats comment although i regularly used to get one person sprawled across the back if I had to have 3 people in the car for any reason.

I was amazed how tight the boot space is when I saw my car 'in the flesh'. I struggled to fit two small suitcases in - had to chuck one of them over the other side of the bar which was very cumbersome! There was more space in my 206cc!

it's a bit wierd isn't it that we have region 2 and usa have region 1 and Japan has region 2 but with the same screen capability as region 1 usa? If they were same as USA I could just use region 1 DVD's - I think? My problem is that I'm totally useless when it comes to anything to do with I.C.E and wouldn't even know where to start to take it out. I will have to get some assistance!

ah that explains it! Is converting it easy then?

god I can't imagine not wearing a seat belt - it's like second nature to put it on. I would never drive without one, not even up the road.

Right you lot, I've got another, my car has an aftermarket sony dvd/satnav/tv head unit installed above the single slot CD head unit. This is nothing to do with the cubby hole where the sat nav usually goes, that is totally empty. There is a strange array of arials around the back window presumably for the T.V which does actually receive a very fuzzy BBC1. The satnav map is obviously of Japan but I did think the DVD player may work as the region code in Japan is the same as here. I have tried just putting a dvd in to see what happens but I just get a blank screen although everything does appear to be in working order. Problem is I am blindly pressing buttons as they are all Japanese on the remote - do we have any japanese speaking ICE installers on here or is tha a long shot........................

It was slightly more hassle insuring the car but mainly because a lot of the places I phoned didn't know what the hell a 'fairlady' was! In terms of cost I wouldn't say it was any more expensive for me than a UK car. It's true there are some rubbish imports out there but Jurgen told me he would only import a top grade car as he didn't want to be associated with bringing trash over. He also had someone at the other end who looked at it first before bidding. In fact there was one that I was interested in that he came back and said no, it's not good enough.

I sussed the switch but thought you could do them when locking the car?

Thanks for that, I'll phone them tomorrow.

great result then at last!

I'm a bit confused (easy done). You had to be paid out by your own insurance company originally? Are they going to claim that back as well then?

do they stop it cutting across your neck then? Or maybe my seats too low? Or maybe they don't expect 5ft 6 people to drive it?

Folding mirrors - I can do them from inside with a switch but I'm sure someone said they fold on locking? However, I am locking my car with the new alarm fob that's been fitted and not with the key fob, is this why? Not an issue really, just wondered. The alarm is something I haven't quite got used to yet, I have to poke a little stick into a hole if I don't put the key in and turn it straight away and I'm paranoid the alarm is going to go off all the time!

Well after only having driven it 3 times I am excited all over again now! I will have lots of questions to come yet! The only immediate one I can think of at the moment is that the seat belt cuts across my neck and is not adjustable, is there anything I can do about that?

Now I've got over the trauma of being flooded this week I thought I'd take the opportunity to thank Jurgen at JM-Imports for the fantastic job he did in getting my car for me and just to let those who may be interested in importing know how the process went. I decided to go down the importing route because I was very specific about what I wanted in terms of low mileage and the colour of the car and there were simply a lot more cars available in Japan in my price bracket than there were in the UK. I was very cautious when it came to choosing who i wanted to import the car for me. I asked around and a friend of mine who has a supra and uses the supra forum said that there was a lot of good feedback on that site about Jurgen Vallons from JM-Imports. I went onto the site and could find nothing but praise for Jurgen - not a bad word anywhere. I googled him and found the same. Not content with that I took some email addresses off the supra forum of people who had used JM-Imports and I emailed them to find out how they had got on. Again, they all sang Jurgen's praises. Trust me, I tried hard to find some negative feedback but it simply wasn't there! I spoke to Jurgen on the telephone and gave him my budget and told him what I wanted. There was no messing about and all the costs were factored into my budget so that I would be driving the car away without paying a penny more. Jurgen gave me a password onto the auction websites and between us we found a car in mint condition with only 5k miles on the clock and this is the car that we bought. Although it was a lengthy process in terms of waiting Jurgen has answered every email and phone call and dealt with every question I have asked him no matter how trivial it was. He kept me informed every step of the way. I had a superb leather re-trim done at trade price which Jurgen also arranged for me. When I collected the car 2 weeks ago I couldn't have been more thrilled. So basically what I'm saying is, don't be afraid to import your car but just make sure you use someone you can trust - Jurgen is based near Newcastle and therefore if you live in the south you could even fly there and drive your car home! I would definitely do it all again!

Great stuff. Fab colour choice as well!

I have an itrip and the quality is ok but not brilliant - it can be quite hissy.