Hi All, been lurking a long while but posting now,
I have been looking for a w202 c43 for a while now and not seen any pop up for sale so have expanded my search area after some advice from a friend and I have now found 2 in silver the only problem is they are in Japan going through auction so I would be bidding without seeing then which is a gamble 1st one is a 1999 with 91,000klm auction grade 3.5 which my friend tells me is a good grade, second is a 2000 with 125,00klm grade 3, I know they won't have suffered much corrosion if any and I know that they will have both been looked after due to the costs involved with owning a car in Japan especially one over 10 years of old, my dilemma is what to pay I really want one but the costs buying in Japan soon get out of control, £1000 to ship the car, Japanese agent fees £700, then when it gets here VAT @ 20% import duty @ 10%, but I'm still keen and just wanted to know what a equivalent one would cost me if I found one here in the UK,
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks in advance
I have been looking for a w202 c43 for a while now and not seen any pop up for sale so have expanded my search area after some advice from a friend and I have now found 2 in silver the only problem is they are in Japan going through auction so I would be bidding without seeing then which is a gamble 1st one is a 1999 with 91,000klm auction grade 3.5 which my friend tells me is a good grade, second is a 2000 with 125,00klm grade 3, I know they won't have suffered much corrosion if any and I know that they will have both been looked after due to the costs involved with owning a car in Japan especially one over 10 years of old, my dilemma is what to pay I really want one but the costs buying in Japan soon get out of control, £1000 to ship the car, Japanese agent fees £700, then when it gets here VAT @ 20% import duty @ 10%, but I'm still keen and just wanted to know what a equivalent one would cost me if I found one here in the UK,
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks in advance