Mikey3073 wrote:Apologies. should've been a bit more specific.samster wrote:Have you actually bought the car Mikey? Where are you importing from? Might be able to help
We looked into buying it from new in UK. We (Wifey) spoke to customs and I asked her to read through their web site to try and get in in B&W, all seemed fine but then we've heard horror stories of people being charged large amounts of money to get their vehicle freed that it became not worth it, so then it would be "auctioned off" to pay the fees.
At the time it was something like ..
Had to be Thia resident returning from other country that had to be the owner of that vehicle for 2 years.
Then the VAT was on a sliding scale according to age/value of car.
We roughly worked out that on a £34K vehicle the VAT would be towards £3400 (10%) this i think worked out as the car would've been 3 years old on the export date. plus shipping which we were quoted over the phone £1,200 (this sounds cheap reading some of the other posts now)
But we also heard that the valuation would be done on their prices which would've worked out at £8000.
I do have contacts re importing from UK (legitimately!!) but it is expensive. I can't PM yet as a newbie but if you want more details am happy to talk. I am moving to Thailand in less than a fortnight so, if you are there then I can contact you somehow?