Hi,

I need some advise....

I have just bought an 04 parallel import 310bhp sti for a spanking price!!!!!

I have been told that this means that it is a UK spec car that was shipped to Japan and the shipped back to the UK as it was unsold. Is this correct.

Also someone has said that I need to make sure that the underneath of the car has been UK standard weather proofed. Would this have been done already?

The car is all HPI clear with no impoter record against it....

Looking forward to your comments

Rexlee2004

 

parallel import usually means that the car has been imported from another EU country (e.g. Japan-Belguim-England). Uk spec means it is identical to one imported directly to the Uk (right-hand drive!)

alan

 

i did not think a parallel import came with 310bhp as standard. Now if it is a grey import it may well have done

 

Parallel import should be full UK specification - i.e. just the same as the car you would have bought here, and made that way in the factory in Japan. Underseal etc wouldn't be necessary. "Grey" import means Japanese spec car, which could mean different power output (UK STi 04 was only 265bhp), and the need to underseal etc.

 

The car is built in japan, would have been shipped to a eu country and sold to a dealer/3rd party that way, it wont be one of the official UK cars.

Tony