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Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« on: November 06, 2012, 01:25:31 am »
I've been looking around on america tuning websites!!

K04 conversion $2500.... - £1600
K04 conversion here £2250

Feel like we're getting finger F*****!
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 01:32:14 am »
 :congrats:  :happy2: yes we are indeed  :sad1:
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 01:35:56 am »
It's been like that since the Stone Age...rip off Britain


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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 01:48:32 am »
I wanna know why!? :S i feel the tuning scene would be much better in the UK if these were the prices?!

It's not like our Corp tax is much different...

oh wait it's nearly 10% different in our favour!!
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 02:41:17 am »
Product tax in many US states = 6%
VAT = 20%


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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, 04:50:56 am »
Feel like we're getting finger F*****!

move to the us then

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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2012, 06:33:16 am »
I'd feel I was getting 'finger f********' If I went to JKM!

I know they are bloody good, but there are a lot of other bloody good VAG forced induction specialists that are less well known, cheaper, but amazing nonetheless. I think a lot of UK tuners do over-charge.

Take my tuners, Storm Developments in Aldermaston. They charge 300 for one of their own excellent (or a great PDT) Stage 1 remaps. I'm only running REVO because of an ECU issue. There is no way the Revo map is worth double the price! They said they can get me an awesome stainless steel full turbo cat back exhaust system for £500. They regularly supercharge Audi S5's RS5's R8's and have been going for a long time. Go and take a look at the cars there! Andy & Alex are incredibly experienced and knowledgeable. They don't advertise as they get too much work, so they are not as well known as other tuners. They are completely trustworthy, and genuine enthusiasts, and will only ever offer you the best advice based on what's best for you and your car, not what's best for their pockets. Finding them through Dave @ PDT was a God-send!

http://www.stormdevelopments.co.uk/services/remapping/oem-ecu-remapping.html

They are soon expanding though, and going from 2 ramps to 4, and I think they are taking on more mechanics, so watch this space. i shall certainly continue to sing their praises and can't recommend them highly enough.  :happy2:
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2012, 05:01:15 pm »
But you can get a 5 bed house with swimming pool and double garage in Florida area for £100k .......... or less :innocent:
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2012, 05:09:39 pm »
LoL i think that's slightly ambitious ! haha 100k? lol !

But on the serious side is it potentially worth importing products from the US for that kinda price? Whats import tax here? on something like a k04 conversion so $2000
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2012, 05:25:15 pm »
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At 20%, the wretched inequitable vat which is the biggest part of the problem :fighting:

Importing from outside the EEC will attract 20% vat plus usually a £12 handling fee < Feckers!!!! :fighting: And then you have to wait forever while the UK postal 'service' sends you a snailmail demand for the tax to be paid. They call it "duty". Well it ain't my duty to pay those feckers for doing nothing in return for legally stealing my money. [/rant]


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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2012, 05:49:13 pm »
Unless your VAT registered, in which case you wont pay VAT on import and if you dont sell it (IE you fit it to your own car) you dont pay VAT.  :happy2:
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2012, 05:55:12 pm »
Unless your VAT registered, in which case you wont pay VAT on import and if you dont sell it (IE you fit it to your own car) you dont pay VAT.  :happy2:

This intrigues me!! May get Awesome GTI to import me a K04 Convert kit from the states ! :P SAVE SAVE SAVE!!!
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2012, 12:45:30 pm »
LoL i think that's slightly ambitious ! haha 100k? lol !

But on the serious side is it potentially worth importing products from the US for that kinda price? Whats import tax here? on something like a k04 conversion so $2000

Have a look on line and see how cheap they are then , Family member just bought the exact house for £99600 , i'll find the advert from the website
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Re: Does anybody else feel like the UK market is over priced!
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2012, 01:33:19 pm »
UK Market overpriced  :signLOL:?

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