Comments on: My Import Story, Part 2 http://righthanddrive.ca/blog/2011/10/my-import-story-part-2/ Canadian Right Hand Drive News and Thoughts Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: rob http://righthanddrive.ca/blog/2011/10/my-import-story-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2760 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:13:20 +0000 http://righthanddrive.ca/blog/?p=784#comment-2760 The maintenance of a right hand drive is… well… depends!
If you get a Civic Type R with a JDM motor… most of the parts will just work, or be available. If you get a Mitsuoka Le Seyde (google it…), you’ll be in for a different experience. The GTR has a great community, and lots of the parts swap from Maximas or other Nissans.
Honestly, I’ve had a minitruck, which was never ever ever sold here, and I didn’t really have an issue.

There are parts that are harder to get (right-hand drive dashboards come to mind), but you can always ship them in from England or Japan.

Overall, it can take more research, but it’s worth it!

]]> By: Customs Info http://righthanddrive.ca/blog/2011/10/my-import-story-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2759 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:58:17 +0000 http://righthanddrive.ca/blog/?p=784#comment-2759 Nice site. I would love to get a GTR! I have an article on Importing cars to Canada from the US that may be of interest to your readers. A lot of the points are the same except obviously cars from Japan have to be 15 years or older and are not required to enter the RIV program.
As a customs officer I do see commercial importations of Japanese cars, but what I’ve always wondered is how people maintain them. Unless you know your way around cars this can’t be easy. Any thoughts or advice? I think thats whats stopping me from doing it.

CI

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