Trip to japan

[MyFirst240SX]

Hey,
Do you think a trip to japan would pay for itself if you bought alot of there cheap JDM parts and sold them here?  has anyone ever flown there and knows the cost of the plane ticket?
Sean

[silviasichigo]

I don't think so! You will pay roughly $700-$1200 for a plane ticket. Depending on where you fly to. I don't think you can carry enough stuff back to suffice what you lost with the ticket. You still have to think that when you get there you still have to pay for whatever you want to get that is more added to the price you have to make up for. So realistically no You can't. One more thing you will get over there and see that you have no idea what people would really want or if they will pay the price you want for the item you want to sell. If I was you I would just take a video camera and tape the illegal street racing, Yankee car clubs, and the bosozouku bike gangs. Hit up a snack bar it is not what you think.

[rotaryknight]

Yea tickets will be a pain...plus if you don't speak Japanese it will be a pain in the ass to find the junk yards and negotiate....though many people there can understand broken english.

If you do go and try to bring stuff back you will have to declare it at customs.  Not like buying a nismo jacket and putting it in you luggage.  Kinda hard to walk through with fenders and a LSD.  Even if you put it in your luggage you have to declare it.

silviasichigo has a good point. If you go, go to enjoy the trip.  I haven't been to Japan in years and I wish I did more stuff when I was there.  I hope to go back when my friends go again for the next Auto Salon(they go every year) so I can bum off their rooms.

[MyFirst240SX]

I meant like filling up a suit case with JDM head lights, fuel injectors, badges etc oh well

[MyFirst240SX]

I meant like filling up a suit case with JDM head lights, fuel injectors, badges etc oh well

[AJ]

lol, i'm going over there 2... i'm going to try to find some headlights <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> &nbsp;... blah,, i know witht the rh setup the headlights r bad... but suv's blind me,, so i'm going ot blind them right back!

[MyFirst240SX]

I looked on ebay and JDM prelude headlights run for 300+ a pop civics headlights arn't that far behind &nbsp;I need torent a japanese person to come with me. &nbsp;If i sold all my american cloths and filled all suit cases with about 20 headlight sets. &nbsp;Would anybody(customs) notice?

[CrazyGoofyWeirdGuy]

9-11 my friend. Let not forget what airport security is like these days. &nbsp;I think your best bet is to make a friend in Japan. &nbsp;The best are the Marines. &nbsp;I got two of my best friends, both huge on cars who are hooking me up. One (Adam) is already there, and Jim is in his way in about two weeks. &nbsp;Also, my brother works for Honda in Mount Laurel (sp?) NJ and can get Spoon shit for me about about 45% American cost. Wish I had known that before he left for the Coast Guard.

[CrazyGoofyWeirdGuy]

double-post. Lets make the best of it.

As of now I can't get in touch with Adam. &nbsp;He just recently found out his fiancee has been cheating on him since about a month before he proposed. &nbsp;A total of about 10 months. &nbsp;He is quite disturbed. &nbsp;As soon as I get in touch with him, he is all about getting me the JDM S-15 shit I need.

[rotaryknight]

This isn't a trip to Las Vegas.... this is an international flight...and yes customs does check. &nbsp; If you have never taken an International flight you have a lot to learn about customs going through your crap.

[geeaj]

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Customs isn't too bad on International flights as long as you don't look suspicious, i.e., wearing your cool duty free sunglasses walking through the gate, sporting a "I brake for Allah" tshirt..etc.

I useta put a Bible on the in one of my rollaways and made sure they check that one first. Once they see the Bible, they usually back off...fear of god or just too many god damned Atheists??

[rotaryknight]

Yea but they do random checks too. &nbsp;I've gone out of the country a few times and only twice i was checked but man I feel sorry for some people cuz they really go throgh your carry ons sometimes.

Also they are X-raying luggage more now....think car parts may look suspicious under the X-ray.

[Firelance]

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Hi all, on a related topic, I've got a friend in Japan who is visiting in the summer. &nbsp;He said he would be willing to bring or ship me some stuff. Any ideas on what I should I ask for?

[KiDyNomiTe]

depends ont the car you get. Maybe he could bring you some small parts, maybe even a turbo kit (a little far-fetched but can be done). Honestly I don't know what I would get from Japan, I would rather juss go and buy new gadgets like cell phoens and digi cams and such. I would just be cruising the streets loking for cars and trying to go to as many car meets as possible. And visit NISMO or JUN or sumin.

[mistert]

i think it'd be worth it, if you could hook up with someone to help you at the junkyards, then just packed everything up and shipped it all back yourself (Save you the hassle of trying to take shit through airport customs). i think you'd have trouble getting around on DOMESTIC flights with a suitcase full of coilovers, they would x-ray the hell out of the coilovers themselves and probably want to dissassemble them, because they look like you could hold alot of all sorts of small shit in them

[MyFirst240SX]

would the airport people really care if you have car parts in your stuff? is that illeagal?

[KiDyNomiTe]

the whole 9-11 thing beefs up security, like mistert said you can hide things in certain car parts, and they would probably like to look inside. They will also get a little fishy wen u r bringing car parts into the country when you cna ship them.