Afternoon all,

Just brought in my type-r which I owned in HK.. after arriving extremely dusty and dirty, gave it a good ol' clean as the weather was so fresh and lovely hehe

Has not been registered yet, still have foreign plates on, waiting till June to register as to avoid eSVA tests. Any idea how much my road tax will be once registered?

In HK:




Exporting:



In UK:

 

absolutley stunning mate i have the same car only not a type r , my road tax is roughly £200 a year

 

very very nice car mate love the colour,think you mite find
it will be 400

 

As your car is as an import it will be taxed as a PLG so should be around £185.00 for the 12 months.
lovely car by the way, I have the same car in the same colour

 

very very nice car, my next purchase.. type r in that colour! lovin it!!

 

Nice is that mate, dont forget to remap for our crap uk fuel

 

very nice mate i have seen the picture before over it in HK can i asked why you have brought it over here now? (if i remember rightly) its been (uses) in HK for a while,

im guessing you in the uk more the HK

lovely

darc

 

sweet motor, why you left Honk kong for swanse ill never know...!

 

stunning type r mate, from my home town too

wiley

 

Car looks mint!

 

Great car, great colour, nuff said...............

 

she's a beaut!!!

 

Lovely car! Agree with the re-map comment though! I think the tax will be £205 a year.

 

Very nice and and another "cool grey" to look out for in the south Wales area

 

: lovely car mate

 

Hey fellas,

Thanks very much for the comments

Darc, yup, I owned in HK for about 2yrs... I brought it over to UK cause I have now moved back permanently and being exempt from Tax & Duty was a major selling point to export it... yay.

Subaru sold the Type-R's in HK so theres no need to remap Every single pump in HK is 98RON... so no need going around looking for V-Power as I will be doing over here Grrrr

Oooh and we dont have a consensus on the Tax question hehe... hope its not £400!!!.... i paid £600 in HK !!!... arghhhh!

 

very nice! how much to bring it over if you don't mind me asking?

 

Subaru sold the Type-R's in HK so theres no need to remap Every single pump in HK is 98RON... so no need going around looking for V-Power as I will be doing over here Grrrr


My car is a v4 sti spent its life in Japan until a couple of years ago when l had it imported over. But it was only untill l had a dyno run that l discovered that the car was lean on fuel at about 5.5 revs. My car is always run on tesco unleaded 99. Very lucky the engine is ok no damage caused. My car was always run on 100 in Japan which was the super unleaded. So i know you said no need but just get it checked out just in case. just my advise as l been threw it and out of it.

 

Love the colour

 

A loverly Type R in a loverly colour and in great condition...where do I sign up for one. No, I am being serious.

 

That looks lovely mate.

 

Cheers (ii)> again for the comments lads

Rikky... thanxs for the warning, much appreciated i suppose an AFR meter would be quite handy right now hehe

been out stripping the paint off the triangle wedges today, didnt think it would take so much time!... and the paint stripper happened to make a bit of the wedge all mucky and lumpy... eeeeek

how do most ppl strip the paint off them?

 

Amazing, must be so cool having owned it over there and to bring it back with you!

Gordon Brown thinks any newly imported car regardless of age is brand new so unfortunatly my mate andy payed £400 for his 1999 silvia s15, i fear it may be the same for you too!

 

very nice mate, love the Hk photos!

 

£400!... arghhh... i hope not!... Gordon Brown is such a poo head!... there must be a way round it hehe...

did your mate have it eSVA'd?...I heard that if the vehicle skips the eSVA as mine will... then the MOT doesn't have enough specific data to categorise it under the new Tax Scheme...

Please not 400!

p.s. its was kinda weird seeing it on my UK driveway... took a little getting used to lol

 

Looks lovely mate, my fave colour on a classic

 

Lovely car mate
my mate imported his ra in june 2008 it needed sva test aswell and
his road tax is £185

 

My type R was a fresh import back 3 months, Had it registered and my tax is normal price £110 for 6 months or something close to that!

Mine is registered as a 1998 though, which is what it should be but i've seen a couple of classics with a 08 plate on and a 55 plate? Don't know how that works tbh

Nice type R by the way!

 

yeah top fuel he had it sva'd as it came from a dealer and wasnt registered

i think you will be able to get round it