Having talked with a few importers I think we should all be very concerned about the new SVA test coming in April.

One of the importers, Japanese Import Centre, sent me the following.

 

Unfortunately this ties in with what i heard mid last year

 

so no way of importing from japan

seem to me the only people who will be happy with that are uk dealersmanufactures.

why must you own a car abroad for a year before you can bring it in.

goverment gets its money out of the imports

in duty and vat

so the only losers is the car manufactures

it seems like the manufactures have leaned on the goverment big style to bring this rule in :-(

as for open market trading well it seems not


cheers

daz

 

So this may stop imports direct from japan, but if they are brought in through ireland first and sit the sva there would it get around these new rules ?

(like my sti 5 which was sva'd in germany to get around the uk quota rules).

 

it doesnt matter where the cars come from they will need to the put through the new SVA test. There is a test centre in ireland for the old SVA but its not clear whether they will be accepted for the new test.

There is another test centre in Holland which can defintely do the new SVA, but then the problem arises as to what they do with the cars when they fail the SVA. They have to change the offending parts (exhausts, filters, turbos) just to get it past the test. The main hope is that the stock units can be fitted and then pass, but then with everybody wanting the stock units theres not going to be enough to go round.

 

How will this affect the resale of imports already in the county - under a year old - previously Irish Registered without SVA. Will it now become a law/criteria that the car could only be sold (as used) with SVA or does it not have any implications for those cars already in the UK?

 

I`ve spoken to someone at the DOT, to find out when exactly this rule comes into effect. Basically waht I was told is that tgey have submitted a report to the EU, and are waiting for confirmation by the 26th jan. If they dont hear nohing before 26th then the deadline for the change will not be 1st march, and would delay things further.

She did say it was highly unlikely, and could be delayed by many months.

 

Branners (or someone)

I'm not clear quite - Does personal imports mean cars from WITHIN the EU as well as from Japan? If so will this affect cars froom say Holland?

JD

 

It wont affect cars made for the european market as they have passed the Whole Vehicle approval, its if they come from outside the EU they will be affected. Basically any car requiring an SVA.

 

Good news, the EU were too busy straigtening out bananas and whatnot and the new SVA has been delayed by at least a couple of months.

Still means that the new test is coming at some point. Maybe in June or maybe later but its coming.

 

The guy's I am using for my imports were saying they are going to set up some sort of "standard" car profile for the popular ones ie WRX and EVO and submit them. Once passed they are going to say "this one passed so the next one will". They feel they will have no problems with the new SVA test. I'll wait and see, but I won't let it put me off ordering the next one at all.
Tim

 

Probably okay with stock cars, but most of the Supras I see coming across have had exhausts changed as a minimum, so its whether they would accept those as the same as the cars originally tested.

The new rules do mean that the dealer must be VAT registered which might reduce the dodgy dealers that are around at the moment. And old rule from contracting was that you can play with the Tax man, but dont ever uck with the VAT people they have no compassion.