[royce]

sea freight like that its one bill of lading for each order, one port fee for each, one clearance fee etc

I have a dude 2m from me can tell me what something costs to freight from anywhere to aus in a million different methods, because DHL et all run stuff in differently to normal seafreight its cheaper to airfreight it

10 tonnes worth different story

[SuziBlu]

yes, shipping, as in non airline, but by a ship, cheapest option by a mile.

Surely individual labels are not hard, I used to export live stuff to the States, quite often 6 different buyers, normally 4, piece of cake to label boxes individually, on same export permit, CITIES number etc.

[royce]

SuziBlu wrote:

yes, shipping, as in non airline, but by a ship, cheapest option by a mile.

yeah the freight rate per tonne is heaps lower, but there is a fuck load of fixed per bill of lading (one per receiver) charges that add up to more than what DHL charge

unless you find a shipping mob that mix load a container, consign it to themselves in Australia as one bill of lading, declare it al, deal with the clearance headaches then send it to all the different people

[inbits]

I'm going to make some calls tomorrow provided I get time and find out an approx on import duties etc
It may be worth it as the quote I got for air freight off them for one was 205 dollars

[inbits]

I read somewhere that it is free to import car parts from the US is this true?
What about from china to the US?

[royce]

no duty on car parts imported from the USA that are MADE in teh USA

[93zook]

will one of these fit a sierra center with vitara 5.12's?

[inbits]

Yeah aslong as you run 26 spline axles

Ok so that's out of the question I'll try and get a figure on the duties

[Lockie666]

I'm thinking about ordering one and getting new spider gears through work and just interchanging the spider gears with original ARB gears. Might work out REALLY cheap

[kenn]

In my experience , really cheap never works out that way.

[Zook_Fan]

So you use stock side gears? DMAC do the spider gears look machined or cast? In that ARB vs China locker it is the side gear that looks to do all the damage to the spider gears anyway, with a stock side gear that is unlikely anyway.

[vl2dy4]

Will the RD88 fit my sierra rear axles? Or will i need to change the \axles? If so i will be interested in 1 for the rear

[monley]

vl2dy4 wrote:

Will the RD88 fit my sierra rear axles? Or will i need to change the \axles? If so i will be interested in 1 for the rear

If you are going to buy one let me know, might get one for the rear of my jimny.

[Zook_Fan]

vl2dy4 wrote:

Will the RD88 fit my sierra rear axles? Or will i need to change the \axles? If so i will be interested in 1 for the rear

Yes it will fit stock rear axles

[inbits]

Ok guys

$435 USD per kit

$60 USD total to ship 10 sets via sea freight to Brisbane port

I will find out how much approx duties will be.

[vl2dy4]

Zook_Fan wrote:

vl2dy4 wrote:

Will the RD88 fit my sierra rear axles? Or will i need to change the \axles? If so i will be interested in 1 for the rear

Yes it will fit stock rear axles

sweet mate thanks for that, hey do we know if the side gears are machined or cast yet?

Conrad

[Zook_Fan]

inbits wrote:

Ok guys

$435 USD per kit

$60 USD total to ship 10 sets via sea freight to Brisbane port

I will find out how much approx duties will be.

Then who is going to distribute them from Brisbane port to all around Australia for the group buy? How much do they weigh so we can get interstate quotes?

[royce]

inbits wrote:

Ok guys

$435 USD per kit

$60 USD total to ship 10 sets via sea freight to Brisbane port

I will find out how much approx duties will be.

youve got a min of $300 in fixed port charges on top of that as well
6 weeks sea freight from USA currently, if its an lcl and possibly trans shipped (chinese seller always goes the cheap option) make it 12

plus GST, plus duty

you need to engage a freight forwarder before you bother going any further, sea freight is not for this type of thing.

[matfan]

I'm just going to make the prediction now that this doesn't get off the ground. It is not going to be worth the trouble. $160 is a large chunk of money but remember, someone is picking up your CHEAP lockers from the seller, loading it on a plane in China then dropping it off at your house. Sounds pretty bloody good to me.

You only get cheap shipping if you are importing LARGE quantities. Most freight forwarders get a similar price per container as you or I would. To put it simply, 1 container is nothing to the shipping company and that's over 30 cubic meters, so why would you expect to have huge savings by ordering 20 little boxes?

Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I worked for a large freight forwarder, 2 large shipping companies (including P&O) and was self employed as an importer for a few years. It just isn't worth the bother.

[SuziBlu]

matfan wrote:

I'm just going to make the prediction now that this doesn't get off the ground. It is not going to be worth the trouble. $160 is a large chunk of money but remember, someone is picking up your CHEAP lockers from the seller, loading it on a plane in China then dropping it off at your house. Sounds pretty bloody good to me.

You only get cheap shipping if you are importing LARGE quantities. Most freight forwarders get a similar price per container as you or I would. To put it simply, 1 container is nothing to the shipping company and that's over 30 cubic meters, so why would you expect to have huge savings by ordering 20 little boxes?

Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I worked for a large freight forwarder, 2 large shipping companies (including P&O) and was self employed as an importer for a few years. It just isn't worth the bother.

So we air freight, still cheap.

[Vash]

Whats the dimensions and weight of 1 unit?

[wideaz]

i have just bought a pair from china 4x4 accessiores
2 air lockers with 2 compressors and all the switches and wiring
1150 delievered to my door in melbourne.

better than 2 lockrights for 950 delievered to my door from locktup.

now just gotta get them installed.........

also was told you only need one compressor to run 2 lockers so i get a spare comporessor as a back up. sweet as!

[SuziBlu]

What do you think of quality ?

[Zook_Fan]

wideaz wrote:

i have just bought a pair from china 4x4 accessiores
2 air lockers with 2 compressors and all the switches and wiring
1150 delievered to my door in melbourne.

better than 2 lockrights for 950 delievered to my door from locktup.

now just gotta get them installed.........

also was told you only need one compressor to run 2 lockers so i get a spare comporessor as a back up. sweet as!

Can you take some high res photo's of the gears so we can tell if they are machined or cast?

[wideaz]

will do so. i believe the pictures will be the same as in this thread. there the same as Chinasoong air lockers just a different company is selling them

[inbits]

I had a talk with the guys that do
All our ordering and shipping from other countries at work today.
Pretty much backed up what Royce has said it's not going to be worth it

Sorry guys but I thought it was a good idea

[SuziBlu]

Well worth a try but, good effort.

[inbits]

I thought so but it's a big head ache for no gain atlases with air freight you get it quicker and straight to your door

[Vash]

guys shoot me the dimensions and weight of a unit so i can do a shipping quote thru my shipito account
like half price over list

[SuziBlu]

Vash wrote:

guys shoot me the dimensions and weight of a unit so i can do a shipping quote thru my shipito account
like half price over list

woohoooo