Sources For Japanese Imports?
Discussion
CrammyJay said:
jm imports just along the road from me in cramlington, never used them before though
I have heard mixed reviews. Some people swear by them but I know of at least one person who bought a car described as original and mint in good mechanical condition that was in fact resprayed on one side and not very well along with the car missing gaskets between the turbo and downpipe causing leaks along with loose clamps on the silicon intercooler joins.Gaz. said:
Do you know that this is the first time I've ever heard a non-positive comment about JM-Imports!
An awful lot of people would love a reputation as solid as Jurgen's.
New Era rarely get any bad press, neither does Paul Brown.
You'll struggle to find a car dealer with a 100% unblemished record (as far as I was concerned JMI did until I saw this post).
No one is perfect and maybe this was just a one off as it doesn't make good business to drag people 300 miles to Newcastle to pick up a nail.An awful lot of people would love a reputation as solid as Jurgen's.
New Era rarely get any bad press, neither does Paul Brown.
You'll struggle to find a car dealer with a 100% unblemished record (as far as I was concerned JMI did until I saw this post).
Paul Brown in High Wycombe I am wary of since they seem to be a bit kerb side cars with the pictures taken on the street, mobile contact number and the old by appointment only spiel. I am just paranoid and I have never seen or heard anything bad about them.
New Era are interesting as I have never heard anything bad from a business side but one of the owners posted up a comment to a video of some one at their first drift what ya brung hat wasn't very nice and they removed it but not before people had seen it. Again doesn't make them a bad dealer just means one person there was having a bad day.
In the end it is not like we are talking about Keighley is it?
It seems a lot of the old importers have shut down. My car was imported by Indy Car Sales from Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire. They're long gone. WRC Sales from Bradford seem to have folded too; first their stock disappeared off the website and now the site doesn't work at all.
As mentioned before, the exchange rate is pretty poor so importing seems to have been scaled back considerably. Many importers in my local area seem to have scaled back their stock and now concentrate on selling Japanese cars that are already in the country. The lad I bought my MR2 from was doing this, he used to be in business importing cars to the UK but had moved mainly to sourcing and buying imported cars already in the country and selling them on.
As mentioned before, the exchange rate is pretty poor so importing seems to have been scaled back considerably. Many importers in my local area seem to have scaled back their stock and now concentrate on selling Japanese cars that are already in the country. The lad I bought my MR2 from was doing this, he used to be in business importing cars to the UK but had moved mainly to sourcing and buying imported cars already in the country and selling them on.
Mastodon2 said:
Baryonyx said:
WRC Sales from Bradford seem to have folded too; first their stock disappeared off the website and now the site doesn't work at all.
They were however, according to a PHer on here, bent as a 3 pound note though, which probably didn't help.GTR Cook said:
Wern't they associated with Keighly?
I believe that was one of the allegations levelled at them, and they are another company I'd run a mile from.Among other things;
- selling cars for top prices, which were actually old dogs, misrepresenting the quality of the cars in the adverts and pictures
- selling cars with MOT certificates when upon inspection, the cars would fail an MOT at pretty much any place you took them - according to one source they had a registered MOT tester so they could certify their own stock even when it was total crap
- selling cars as having SH when they had none
I'd like to think bad business practices just caught up with them, but in truth I think the strength of the Yen probably finished them off.
Edited by Mastodon2 on Wednesday 18th January 17:33
GTR Cook said:
Thankfully alot of the dodgy companies have ceased trading.
Mashamoto being one of them.I bought a couple of cars in 2008 with no problems. A Civic type R EK9 and a Starlet Glanza. Then I paid for a Subaru Legacy in 2010, and waited and waited before clawing back a few hundred pound and the owner a Mathew Martin disapearing despite promising to pay me back the remaining £3000.
One day I will find Matthew Martin, probably when he has forgotten all about it. Its going to be great
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