By tc on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 04:12 am: Edit

I want to import the entire car of Disco TD5 from England just for parts. It is in running condition. I already have a donor vehicle here in the state. How should I go about? Thanks

By Ron on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 04:15 am: Edit

Take it apart.

Get it into "chunks" and ship them in at least two seperate contaniers.

Ron

By tc on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 07:52 am: Edit

Body and rolling chassis with engine?

By Ron on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 07:54 am: Edit

Ideally I "think" you would want the engine and body seperate from the chassis and running gear. I have seen them get by pretty much complete except for the engine tranny and t-case, that might be easist but the more you take it apart the better.

Cheers
Ron

By bg on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 08:19 am: Edit

or you can have the midnight riders bring it in through mexico or canada...that is if you're really using it for parts and not planning on registering it for road use...and if you don't mind cheating the tax man...and don't mind maybe getting busted...

otherwise, you have to take it apart and ship it as "machined parts" like Ron said If it is in running condition, the govt assumes that you are importing a working vehicle (which you are)...there is no way I've heard of to officially convince them that it's "just for parts".

By Ron on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 08:21 am: Edit

here is no way I've heard
of to officially convince them that it's "just for parts".

Take the engine tranny and T-case out and ship seperately. does not hurt to take fenders off as well.

The less it looks like a truck the better.

Cheers and good luck,
Ron

Auto parts a 1.5% tax I think

By bg on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 08:36 am: Edit

Take the engine tranny and T-case out and ship seperately. does not hurt to take fenders off as well.

The less it looks like a truck the better.

yeah, you're right. what I meant is that I don't know of a way to convince the import police that a working truck (i.e. you don't break it down) is just for parts.

I do the same when shipping firearms or transporting them through airports. ship/pack the frame, slide, and barrel & firing pin separately, and it's not a gun...it's just machined parts. you can put it all back together and it'll work. the problem with putting the Disco back together is that you can't register it and drive it, but he's just interested in the parts anyway. assume tc is building a nice expedition disco and dropping that TD5 in the donor?

By chrisvonc on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 03:42 pm: Edit

The TD5 engine has never been certified for the U.S. so if you get nabbed with it in your truck, you could potentially loose the truck. Just buy one of the UK convertion kits and put a legal Diesel in?

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 06:33 pm: Edit

if wrote movie scripts and not that i know any better- but what if you got the vin # off of wrecked disco- made new duplicate vin tags. fly south of the border. pick up the legal in mexico car. install new vin takes and matching plates and then drive back over.....

but that hollywood isn't it?

steve

By tc on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 07:12 pm: Edit

Guys,

Thanks very much for the info. I especially like the idea of bring it over through Mexico and Canada. After all, I don't plan to regiester the vehicle anyway. I didn't know about TD5 being illegal. I guess I have to get a TD3.