Whats the front skirt youve got fited to your car?

I like it a lot

Sounds like we have quite a bit in common Rob. I'm also a POM, who emigrated out here to live in Christchurch with my Kiwi-born wife back in 1996 (I was an officer in the RAF for 14 years before moving out here). I'm an IT professional working for a company called Trimble Navigation(a large multinational GPS technology developer). My better half also had a career change when we moved out here and she's been a primary school teacher for aobut 10 years. We're just a bit ahead of you on the children stakes, with our 2 girls both away at University in Dunedin. I've just ordered an Octavia Scout, so we'll have that in common as well in a couple of months when mine is delivered. Small world...

Small world indeed!

It's strange that teachers and IT people seem to get together - I know a few couples with that combination of jobs.

Whats the front skirt youve got fited to your car?

I like it a lot

What do you mean exactly? The bumper is standard with Milotec lower grilles fitted.

Looks great Rob! Happy anniversary ...

cars looking nice, what did it take to import the car out to there, as my uncle moved out to NZ in 2006 also, and he was gutted to have to sell his pride and joy, he lives a few miles from mount taranaki now!

cars looking nice, what did it take to import the car out to there, as my uncle moved out to NZ in 2006 also, and he was gutted to have to sell his pride and joy, he lives a few miles from mount taranaki now!

Thanks

It's not that hard to bring a car here as long as it's a model that has passed the frontal impact standards - so basically if it was sold here it will be okay.

It needs a really good clean - steam clean preferably.

1250 quid to ship, 700 fully comp zero excess insurance.

Then once it gets here, MAF inspection for any bio-contaminants - hence the steam clean.

Then about $600 for registration and plates, warrant of fitness (MOT) etc.

They hand you the plates but don't sell screws or tape or anything to attach them - and of course it's illegal to drive away with no plates attached. Doh!

I had a few issues - screws missing and clips snapped when they physically checked the seatbelt mountings. They lifted it under the sills using a forklift blade instead of jacking properly when they checked underneath, and they put a few scratches on it at the testing station. All fixed under insurance but annoying.

I've heard of people getting charged $600 for proof of frontal impact standards - they just enter the model in a computer and it says yes or no.

Also WOF failing on "brake rotors" is common - then they rip you off on replacement. Took me a while to work out that brake rotors are discs

Also sometimes stereos, spare wheels etc go missing, but that's usually at the docks on Japanese imports.

They assume you've never seen the car so this stuff will go un-noticed!

So it could have been worse for me!!