Getting Japanese Degregistraion Papers

[onearmedbandit]

And you also don't need to be fluent in Japanese, in fact no dealer I"ve worked for has been. But no problem, as most agents in Japan speak some degree of English (some fluently) they will perform tasks like this for you.

[FROSTY:Me]

Well as I said 'in my experience' and as I've seen two vehicles that come to mind straight away imported with no de-reg, nor with any intention of getting the de-regs, that had vin's attached. Maybe there is another reason for this. Don't get too upset over it. (ie your use of CAPITAL letters, whats that all about??)

there is a difference when importing--if it is a vehicle intended for road use it gets a vin if its goods -like complete vans for evample for wrecking stock then they dont get vinned
capital to emphasise the difference.
the exception might be a tractor that at some stage might be road registered--ditto a quad.
my point re fluent japanese is that this guy has no clue as to the source of the bike so has to start from scratch ---unlike a dealer who has an agent working for him -and usually as keen as the dealer to sort out the dereg papers -yep i've mislaid a dereg -but I had an agent keen to be paid for the car

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah, true enough, the original poster doesn't have an agent working for him, so he is in a hard spot. I'd say forget about this bike and move on to something easier.

[FROSTY:Me]

Sorry Bandit my previous post sounds a bit pedantic --nahh sounds like a know it all lol
I think we were saying the same thing in a different way lol
What yard ya at down there Mines called devonport car co
small yard -22 units with a warehouse-20 more units .

[onearmedbandit]

Outfit called VCL (aka 'The Big Yellow Car Yard'), we hold about 100 units on the yard, with about another 150 'in the system'. This yard specializes in cars from $8000-$16000 (occasionally we have some big ticket stuff) selling between 70-90 a month. We also have two other yards, one European holding about 20 units, the other being a 'VIP'/performance yard holding about 30. I've been doing this for 8yrs now, how about yourself?

[gav]

yeah, I picked up my 93 ZXR400L for a pretty good price when I asked if the guy had dereg papers. He had bought the bike as a crashed import, I knew the history and was pretty sure that he wouldnt have any papers for it. He had spent over $4500 on this ZXR and was pretty much ready for the road, just needing paint. Mentioned to him that without Jap de reg papers he couldnt get a VIN . Guess he thought I was bullshitting him, but left him my number and he rang me two days later. I was looking for a track bike, and offered him $3000 he was gutted but think i ended up paying $3150 for it, great buy, had speed restictor fitted, Daytona racing products air filter, Daytona jets, and real trick light weight exhaust system, must have seen some race track time in Japan, went real well. It was originally one of the Itoham replica models similiar to this.

[R6_kid:Me]

13.5% buyers premium is steep! Turners only charges 6% on purchases up to $1000....

i got an older version of the bike... GF250 SPECIAL nice old bike

[ktulu]

Sorry Bandit my previous post sounds a bit pedantic --nahh sounds like a know it all lol
I think we were saying the same thing in a different way lol
What yard ya at down there Mines called devonport car co
small yard -22 units with a warehouse-20 more units .

I think my bro may have bought an EVO 4 off you about this time last year frosty, a blue/silver one, sounds familiar anyway. Possibly just sounds familiar because you are a car dealer in devenport and he got his car from there.

Interesting point this import thing, sounds like a pretty good way to get a cheap race bike if you are very good at being in the right place at the right time