Purchasing Vehicle from Eastern States to WA?

Hi There,
For that price difference your talking about, make sure that its not a 2011 plated model, there could still be some around.
regards Alpero

Could always fly over and start your holiday from the east. Depending of course what the airfare will cost you.

Regarding the price. Nearly all imported vehicles into Australia are around double the cost the dealer pays for them. eg dealers buys for his yard at $24000 and sells the vehicle to you for around $47000. Fact of life.

The Amarok is a nice vehicle but one owner recently reported, on the 4th tankfull from new, the high pressure pump and injectors are ruined because dirty fuel got through. If the system is doing what it is designed to do how did it get that far. Repair bill to owner, $10,000, VW say it is not their fault, no warranty given. Most vehicles will tell you of the impending problem.

The Amarok has as you said is 120kw. but because of the small, 2litre engine it has NO torque at very low revs. I drove one and stalled it twice while driving forward, not stopping. To used to a Landcruiser possibly.
The Amarok is more complex in the electricals but many others are getting there too.
Before you buy one check out, in detail, ALL you have to do to have extras like brake controllers and auxilliary battery systems fitted so you know the limitations/what you have to do, beforehand. No good finding out after there is complications.
If you are going to buy in ES and drive it across you can get a permit and then reg it in the west.
Will the dealer you didn't buy it off be ready, willing and able to help with servicing and warranty repairs. Many dealerships are very don't like it if you didn't buy from them. No doubt the double their buy price has something to do with it. However, I realize they must all make a profit to be in business.


The dealer should be able to match Eastern states prices or are they just going higher because they can play Monopoly? Ask VW.

Just a few thoughts.

4 runner

we bought a camper from vic and saved $5000. The only issue was rego, we put it on the back off a truck to get it here. We had to pay for a permit in vic and also one for wa. One of my mates buys busses from qld and he has to get a seperate permit for each state to drive it home. Unless you know someone in the state your buying it from so you can rego it to them and just transfer it when the rego is up. If its from a dealer it wont happen. We pay to much for stuff here for no reason. Apparently everyone thinks we all work in the mines and they price accordingly.
hope that helps
trev

Hi 4 runner

I cannot comment of the particular vehicle but can give you a couple of different scenarios.

To get what we wanted we purchased our caravan pre-loved in Queensland. We had the rego transferred to us at purchase (stamp duty did not apply on trailers) using the vendor's residential address and our WA postal address. On return to WA we had three months in which to get and inspection and WA rego set up.

Our son purchased a Nissan Patrol sight unseen from the eastern states and had it trucked over so rego for driving it over was not an issue. It then had to be registered in WA. He wanted it to put an different motor in it and make a dual cab for family, so was wanting the body. It turned out to be in very good order both physically and mechanically. This purchase was because of the price difference between WA and ES.

Motherhen

Just been through similar process -- Purchased a Mahindra Pik-up and had it delivered to Darwin from Brisbane -- The reason it was just so much cheaper to get the build up done interstate -- getting stuff done and made up in Darwin costs a fortune.

Factory -- as standard
Rear Diff Lock
Dual air con
Cruise control
Good sliders (under seal guards as standard)

Extra -- most as supplied as a Mahindra factory extra..
50mm Suspension Upgrade kit with fitting
Snorkle
Steel winch bar
Runva Comp Winch with plasma rope
Tow bar
Sump guard
Alloy canopy with wired up central locking
Reverse camera
Extra spare wheel and tire
Dual battery setup
Centre bearing guard
UHF radio setup
Dash matt
145 Litre Long Range Fuel tank (bring the total to about 225 Litres) about a range of 2500km
Extra Aux wiring

The whole project was about the $45000




I have done a write up about the ute on the Myswag forum
http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=17679.0

When the vehicle was delivered some of the paper work went missing -- Did make it a challenge at the motor vehicle registry. (You will have to be prepare for that sort of thing).

I would not be keen to say purchase a vehicle and drive a brand new vehicle, as most new vehicles have some sort of teething issues to sort out.. There is also the insurance question as well.

Remember to factor in your extras when considering your purchase, I did price up with a Amarok as one stage and the project came out just under the $70000 mark, as the extras were way more expensive.. another factor the VW dealer in Darwin just didn't want to help with the extras at all.. Did email and ring some VW dealers interstate and they just didn't price up the build either.

Cheers

Mate,
try this mob.

Private fleet sales

make sure all the warranty upgrades are done just had the recall to change the clutch, 9th warranty in 5months Not good enough VW

Now this is second hand news I got last night. My mate runs a 4wd tagalong tour company. They just got back from a 11,000 round trip last week. One of the vehicles was the new VW Amorak, engine wise was fine, but the thing was falling apart. Rear tailgate, straps that hold the gate up, the ute body its self come loose. Short circuit in the lighting due to an earth strap and the biggest problem was that all these things had those star type screws in them (he did tell me the correct name) but were not phillips head so they had fun trying to tighten things up till they got to the next town and tighten everything. Nothing major as such but he said the owner would have to go an use locktite on every nut and bolt. While he said the corrugations in some of the trip were pretty severe but for a brand new vehicle it wasnt good, other then that the vehicle performed faultlessly but did have a few rattles internaly (seemed to be from the dash) but will be reviewed under warranty.............