Importing a Toyota Tundra from the states
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Hello Fellow members and Good Evening
This is my first ever post on Piston Heads been a lurker for a while now .... i was wondering if anyone on here owns a Toyota Tundra, I really want to import one from the states I love the Tundra .. was in the states a couple of years ago and came across the tundra .. friend has one in Dubai and I really want to import one to the UK .. can anyone help me out, can I bring this over to UK ?... if so can some one help on giving me some info on the procedure
This is my first ever post on Piston Heads been a lurker for a while now .... i was wondering if anyone on here owns a Toyota Tundra, I really want to import one from the states I love the Tundra .. was in the states a couple of years ago and came across the tundra .. friend has one in Dubai and I really want to import one to the UK .. can anyone help me out, can I bring this over to UK ?... if so can some one help on giving me some info on the procedure
Unless you want to chuck £20k + down the drain in the next twelve months I wouldn't bother.
The Tundra and Titan are the least desirable US trucks in the UK.
They just look like slightly larger versions of the usual UK available Jap pick ups and as they're not very popular they don't come to Europe in sufficient numbers to get factory discounts so they'll be MSRP only. Roughly £10k more than a Ram.
The Tundra and Titan are the least desirable US trucks in the UK.
They just look like slightly larger versions of the usual UK available Jap pick ups and as they're not very popular they don't come to Europe in sufficient numbers to get factory discounts so they'll be MSRP only. Roughly £10k more than a Ram.
Roo hit the nail on the head. I'm in the trade in the US and these things just don't sell.
Fords, Rams and GMC/Chevy trucks are, surprisingly enough, better built and less expensive. In smaller pickups the Tacoma (similar to the Hilux) is the dominant truck in its class, but for full size stuff? Umm, no.
As to why you don't see many Denali pickups in the UK? I hardly ever see them over here. Rare and expensive trucks, for some odd reason the high dollar trucks that I do see tend to be Fords, particularly Harley Davidson models.
Fords, Rams and GMC/Chevy trucks are, surprisingly enough, better built and less expensive. In smaller pickups the Tacoma (similar to the Hilux) is the dominant truck in its class, but for full size stuff? Umm, no.
As to why you don't see many Denali pickups in the UK? I hardly ever see them over here. Rare and expensive trucks, for some odd reason the high dollar trucks that I do see tend to be Fords, particularly Harley Davidson models.
BLUETHUNDER said:
On that on note Roo. Can you answer me a question. How comes you never see any GMC Sierra,s or the better specced Denali in the UK. They look a nice purposeful truck and well equiped. But you see very few if any at all.
I'll buy as many of them as I can get my hands on. The problem is the price of them compared to what we can buy new Rams for.http://www.newport-imports.com/sold-vehicles/gmc/s...
http://www.newport-imports.com/sold-vehicles/gmc/s...
http://www.newport-imports.com/sold-vehicles/gmc/s...
To Roo and Captain Caddy,
I have longed for the F250 diesel double cab, short bed, King Ranch.
Now I heard from my time in the US, that the early 6.0L diesel engines had an inherent problem, but I really just don't know what it was all about.
I was looking to get a truck which has been used, but not abused.
Some thing with about 80k to 120k miles on the clock.
Possibly with a 2 inch lift on it?
I use a Land Cruiser at the moment to tow a big 4 wheel caravan, doing a lot of European driving, so again LHD is probably better.
Please advise you feelings and ideas on the F250, and which engines were the troublesome ones, and to what degree they were troublesome.
Hope you guys can point me right.
~~Dang, I knew I should have bought the truck instead of the Corvette~~~
vette
I have longed for the F250 diesel double cab, short bed, King Ranch.
Now I heard from my time in the US, that the early 6.0L diesel engines had an inherent problem, but I really just don't know what it was all about.
I was looking to get a truck which has been used, but not abused.
Some thing with about 80k to 120k miles on the clock.
Possibly with a 2 inch lift on it?
I use a Land Cruiser at the moment to tow a big 4 wheel caravan, doing a lot of European driving, so again LHD is probably better.
Please advise you feelings and ideas on the F250, and which engines were the troublesome ones, and to what degree they were troublesome.
Hope you guys can point me right.
~~Dang, I knew I should have bought the truck instead of the Corvette~~~
vette
uk_vette said:
To Roo and Captain Caddy,
I have longed for the F250 diesel double cab, short bed, King Ranch.
Now I heard from my time in the US, that the early 6.0L diesel engines had an inherent problem, but I really just don't know what it was all about.
I was looking to get a truck which has been used, but not abused.
Some thing with about 80k to 120k miles on the clock.
Possibly with a 2 inch lift on it?
I use a Land Cruiser at the moment to tow a big 4 wheel caravan, doing a lot of European driving, so again LHD is probably better.
Please advise you feelings and ideas on the F250, and which engines were the troublesome ones, and to what degree they were troublesome.
Hope you guys can point me right.
~~Dang, I knew I should have bought the truck instead of the Corvette~~~
vette
Just butting in, having had an F250 diesel double cab, short bed, King Ranch with the 6.0 Powerstroke...I have longed for the F250 diesel double cab, short bed, King Ranch.
Now I heard from my time in the US, that the early 6.0L diesel engines had an inherent problem, but I really just don't know what it was all about.
I was looking to get a truck which has been used, but not abused.
Some thing with about 80k to 120k miles on the clock.
Possibly with a 2 inch lift on it?
I use a Land Cruiser at the moment to tow a big 4 wheel caravan, doing a lot of European driving, so again LHD is probably better.
Please advise you feelings and ideas on the F250, and which engines were the troublesome ones, and to what degree they were troublesome.
Hope you guys can point me right.
~~Dang, I knew I should have bought the truck instead of the Corvette~~~
vette
They can, and do, have trouble with the high-pressure fuel pump when they hit 100,000 miles upwards. It'll fail once, go into limp-home mode, then clear itself. This will happen with increasing regularity until they fail completely. At which time you have to lift the body to change the pump.
Having said that, if you're happy to go a little older, there is no finer diesel than the 7.2 Powerstroke which is as tough as old boots, immensely tunable and will go on forever. I'd have one over either of the later versions any day.
Thanks all Ade, Roo, Irok et al,
So where to go?
Do I consider a backward step back to the powerstroke's?
Fuel consumption, disregarding manufactures "cloud" figures, what can I expect.
Oh, believe be, the 'vette was OK, but I definitely should have got the truck, so you did right in getting the truck.
Actually, I was dissapointed with the 'vette, but that might have been because I just sold my last 2002 WS6 TransAm.
The 'vette wasn't really that much faster, or harder in the acceleration dept.
Sorry, so back to the F250.
What to do?
Did they fix the problems with the F250 in later trucks?
How new do I have to go to get a truck that doesn't have these problems, or are Ford still pumping out this same 6.0L diesel?
vette
So where to go?
Do I consider a backward step back to the powerstroke's?
Fuel consumption, disregarding manufactures "cloud" figures, what can I expect.
Oh, believe be, the 'vette was OK, but I definitely should have got the truck, so you did right in getting the truck.
Actually, I was dissapointed with the 'vette, but that might have been because I just sold my last 2002 WS6 TransAm.
The 'vette wasn't really that much faster, or harder in the acceleration dept.
Sorry, so back to the F250.
What to do?
Did they fix the problems with the F250 in later trucks?
How new do I have to go to get a truck that doesn't have these problems, or are Ford still pumping out this same 6.0L diesel?
vette
uk_vette said:
Actually, I was dissapointed with the 'vette, but that might have been because I just sold my last 2002 WS6 TransAm.
The 'vette wasn't really that much faster, or harder in the acceleration dept.
vette
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