FWIW, I just installed the RL1598 Single Large Bore Performance Exhaust
System and their RL1598FK Fitting Kit (don't bother! - you can pick up the
same parts at your local AutoZone, Pep Boys, Advance Auto, etc.!) from
Rimmer about 6 weeks ago. Duties on the shipment amounted to about $17.00,
including the UPS Customs Clearinghouse charges. Glad I ordered when free
shipping was in effect! Shipping would have been about $80.00!
Tony Childs
72 Spitfire - FK38809U
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou" <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
To: <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>; <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>;
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Rimmer SS header part number?
>
> This has set me wondering:
>
> What experiences have people actually had with customs
> duties when ordering big-ticket car parts from the UK?
> The one order I did from them had no duty, but it was only
> a couple of small parts that fit in a padded envelope...
>
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
>
>
> At 01:16 PM 7/5/00 -0400, alemen@pop.ftconnect.com wrote:
>
> >Folks, I got a reply from Rimmer.
> >
> >They do have header and twin exhaust system plus both parts as a package
( save a couple of bucks).
> >
> >RL1206SS S/S 4 BRANCH EXH.MAN. F £115.00 + VAT
> >RL1207SS S/S TWIN*SPORT*EXH*LES*MAN £145.00 + VAT
> >RL1523SS FULL SYSTEM INC HEADER £255.00 + VAT
> >RL1502 FITTING KIT £13.95 + VAT
> >
> >So for whole system + fitting kit in US Dollars (GBP1.0 <=> USD1.51) =>
$410 Plus shipping (free right now?) and we don't pay VAT but probably will
get charged import duty.
>
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