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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: -luke-gti on July 28, 2014, 07:06:01 pm

Title: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: -luke-gti on July 28, 2014, 07:06:01 pm

Hi I'm thinking about getting wheels shipped from USA to the Uk

Has anyone shipped wheels for USA? Is it safe & was they damaged?

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: th3_f15t on July 28, 2014, 07:08:12 pm

Are you aware of import duty fees as well?

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/tax-and-duty.htm - Info
http://www.dutycalculator.com/ - Calculator

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: -luke-gti on July 28, 2014, 07:21:05 pm

How much are they?

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: N8KOW on July 28, 2014, 07:25:48 pm

Few years back, cost me £550 in shipping and import duty/tax.

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: th3_f15t on July 28, 2014, 07:26:30 pm

Quote from: -luke-gti on July 28, 2014, 07:21:05 pm

How much are they?

Second link is a duty calculator.

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: MC71 on July 28, 2014, 07:57:44 pm

Which brand of wheels? As a few of the US of A manufactures sell through some Euro distributors, thus avoiding 20% duty and shipping costs.

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: -luke-gti on July 28, 2014, 09:32:37 pm

The watercooled company & they said some thing about shipping through stance uk so I'm guess that's what you mean

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: Carbon Goodies on July 28, 2014, 09:37:38 pm

Sometimes overseas sellers can get shipping with the import duties included so at least you know what you will be paying.

Import duty and vat can be a real killer for things like this.

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: George10 on July 29, 2014, 10:26:01 am

I've bought a few sets of wheels from the USA and its perfectly safe providing they package them properly.

People say about import tax but just make sure they put a low value on the wheels when they tell the shipping company! My wheels cost me thousands and rotiform put the value as £300 so I enter up paying £41 import tax.

I'm sure people will disagree with this but it works perfectly fine.

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: Black9 on July 30, 2014, 03:31:38 am

U can put the value of the wheels as less but u risk getting a lower payout if they are lost or damaged in transit. Double edged sword. Usually it's ok tho...

Title: Re: Shipping wheels from USA
Post by: wilsy_ on July 30, 2014, 11:53:00 am

I've heard something about getting the company to put that they are a warranty replacement as well?