I have found a company who supply this turbo for £578 and £80 shipping.

Will I need an adapter to fit this to my 54 reg vRS?

Brand new?

Turbos come integral with the manifold, so no adaptor needed. Make sure this has the exhaust manifold as well.

That seems cheap

Yeah it's a brand new turbo. It says for the compressor side I may need an adapter?

Who is that off mate

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http://shopping.boraparts.com/product_info.php?products_id=351

The adapter says it's needed for an ALH engine which I think was one of the old 90bhp engine codes. They come with smaller intercooler pipework whereas your stock pipework on a vRS will be the same diameter as an ARL PD150. Should be totally plug and play for you.

Also, don't forget that while it seems like a bargain due to the exchange rates, you'd probably have to pay import duty etc once it's through customs, so I'd check out what you may be expected to pay once it hits the UK and see if it's still enough of a saving to make buying from the US a good idea. Warranty issues are difficult to deal with anyway, let alone with a company the other side of the world and anywhere between 8 and 12 hours time difference...

Thats ok then. Does anyone know if this item will be subject to import tax?

http://shopping.boraparts.com/product_info.php?products_id=351

that's not a link to a hybrid turbo?

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/tax-and-duty.htm#1

Can't be bothered to figure out, in typical Government style it sort of reads "Your item will be subject to import duty, unless it isn't, and then it still might be". But you should probably assume that it is, you may be able to get the company to mark it down as much cheaper than it should be to cut down the import tax but then if you get problems you'll get much less assistance from the courier companies who'll only pay out for a £10 item rather than £578. Also as andy said, it's not actually a hybrid turbo but a stock PD150 one. So given that you don't know what you're buying, don't know the people you're buying from (unlike, say, a forum sponsor in the UK), and you don't really know how much you'll actually be paying for it (since it depends on the exchange rate offered by whichever payment method you use, at the time you order, and how much duty you might have to pay when it hits the UK) I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's an absolutely terrible deal.

If you get them to mark it as a gift on te commercial invoice it should go through ok.

Duty will most likely be 20% for the VAT and possibly customs clearance..

I paid ~£36 import duty on some coil packs for the RX-8 which were cost/marked as worth ~£200/$3xx!

Assuming it scales up, that's gonna be about £120 import fees!

OK, the first thing that will be added on will be VAT. That's 20%. Then the Shipping agent (DHL, FedEx) will hold the unit until you pay the 18% import duty. You're looking at not far off £900 by the time you take it home from the shipping agent.

I buy in a lot of stuff from the USA and it's not as cheap as it looks, plus they are wise to the whole $50 gift thing.

I had an Oppo blu ray player sent from the US. They marked it as a return with a value of $50.

Went straight through customs with no charges to be paid.

Edited 8 January, 201214 yr by trebormint

Bought some dropped spindles from the states priced marked at 86usd had to pay 23 import duties, still worked out 57pounds cheaper than uk