Hey what if you wanna import own foreign car for personal use for 3 months and then return it back to the country of origin.

Can we get like a temporary permit to use the car in malaysia.

Best to check with kastam. If I recall correctly the tax is on their book value of the car, not your purchase price so it'll be 1.95 x ???

Road tax for the car should be around RM2700 per year, not that high.

Yes, the have their own book value. they'll still tax you even though you got your car for free.

Erm.. If i wanna import a 1996 rx-7 (1308cc) from Japan, and it cost around RM9700 if i buy it online, how much would it be the tax on this car if this car imported to Malaysia? Anyone help me to calculate this, please ~ I'm not that good in Maths

Not possible to bring in unless you have personal ap

Thanks for the reply I see. Is it possible to get one AP without study or work overseas? Or it is only possible to get it in the way u guys mentioned, which is the work or study overseas and own the car for 9 months?

Must study or work in foreign land to obtain personal AP

Hello,

I am just wondering if anyone have experience shipping their car together with personal effect and household items to Malaysia? We are going to get a 40" container to load our car and household items but the shipping agent (a Malaysian) advised us to ship the car separately since he says the car will take a longer time to process for it to be released, thus they will also hold our personal effect/household items at the port. I just want to know the process when the container arrives at our port in Malaysia. Can't we just get our personal items out of the port first?

Speaking from personal experience yes, belongings together with car, as long as you have a complete list of items (declared) it contains, pay your car tax promptly, you can get everything fast.

The forwarded (shipping agent, bringing your container from port to an unloading area) in Malaysia needs to bring to documents to Kastam promptly, get the tax quote, appeal from your part if needed/wanted, pay the car tax, everything in the container is yours, unload the container.

You can get your car and everything.... you may need a temporary plate to drive your car to JPJ/Puspakom to register, (this is DYI on your part)...

Proper SOPs are: The seal of the container can only be broken with your presence, everything regarding your car should be stated (model/engine no./chassis no.), by right, Kastam does not need to inspect your car, which will be done by Puspakom.

But I suppose you need to arrange with your "Agent"....

This post has been edited by BeastX: Mar 13 2013, 12:22 PM

Hi Kanz1986, may i know is it really that the duration count started from the date of car being registered under my name until the date of shipment?

Currently i am in Australia, planning to ship my Lancer 1999 after my visa expired on coming September (working holiday visa). Well, i am still waiting for MITI reply whether am i entitle for the AP due to my type of visa just only valid for a year. I purchased the car and the insurance for the car on last year December. Anyway, due to some stupid reason did not straight away proceed to transfer ownership under my name and i only did it on March, hence the car won't be fulfill the 9 months period requirement when the time my visa expired on September. Wonder can i leave my car in Australia, then come back and ship it back on next year to fulfill the 9 months requirement?

Yes, the duration count starts from the registration date of the car under your name. However i know a person who mistaken the count start from the date of purchase (less than 9 months) and he was able to register his car in Malaysia. But i'm not sure what extra conditions are being imposed on his car.

For a 1 year visa, you are entitle for the AP. no worries. My visa was a 1 year study visa.

Since you require 2 months more, why not deal with your shipping company to ship the car after 2 months? Quite a number of Malaysians are doing that in the UK. park their car at the forwarder warehouse until it reaches maturity and ship them out.

Yeah, I actually intend to do as what you had suggested, but the thing concerning me is I afraid the charge for leaving car in their warehouse is very high, if that the case it would not worth it due to my car is actually low in value even if it in Malaysia, Lancer coupe 1999.....headache, haha

i see. might be better if for u to calculate & assess the cost of going back or leave at the warehouse. see which one cheaper. Do consider your maintenance also, the car will not be moving for around 2-3 months, might cause some problem.

Actually what if instead of leaving the car in warehouse, how about I leave the car to my friend when i am going back, then come back to Australia to proceed the shipment after 2-3 months time? That might be able to save some dollars

yeap. that's certainly a good option. hope your friend can give love to your car as much as u do. lol

I'm not from Malaysia but I need to know the process a getting a car in UK for export after 2 years. Then I can shipped the car tax free to my country.

I just need to know what document is required to purchase a car in UK?
Please note- it's for personal car export.

Just say it's under a student visa....

Here what I gathered so far in terms of getting a car from the UK to Malaysia.

I am in my third year, which I have roughly 1.5 year to go in going back to Malaysia.

I suppose this would be somewhen a good time in getting a car, if it make sense.

These are the planned steps from what I gathered so far (I am on no.3 right now)

(1) Get Provisional License
(2) Register for Theory Test
(3) Go for Driving Lessons
(4) Register & Go for the Driving Test
(5) Find a car
(6) The money to sustain the darn thing
(7) Bringing it back


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(1) Get Provisional License

This is necessary as I stayed longer than a year here, my Malaysian Driving license is no good and I will have to start taking a UK license test.

The cost is at £50 for the provisional license, just register it over at DVLA website with your particulars, pay online, submit via mail of the passport to DVLA at Swansea after receiving a mail from them.

Timeline: around 1 to 1 1/2 months

Receive a mail around 2 weeks after registering & paid online. Post passport & form to DVLA via Royal Mail first class with Return envelope. Receive the passport and provisional license separately in the mail around two weeks later.

Costs: £50 (Provisional license) + £13-ish (Royal Mail first class with Return envelope)

(2) After receiving provisional license, then register to take the theory test, also through the DVLA website, which will allocate to your nearest test centre.

Required test:
Theory objective questions (score at least 43 / 50)
Hazard Perception test (score at least 44 / 70)

Note: Must pass both to move forward to register for the driving test.

Test costs: £31 + whatever it costs to get there via public transport.

They allocated me the earliest in three weeks time, no earlier booking possible. This is where I am at right now in these steps mentioned.

Test time 2 hours for both, most likely I’ll get in done within an hour.

If fail either one or both, it is compulsory to retake it again, and pay full amount. I am not sure what will the waiting gap will be for this.

(3) Driving lessons.
Depending on the school / instructor, it’ll cost somewhat £23/hour average.

I am taking a few sessions for me to iron out my bad habits and also their driving culture in order for me to pass their test. This is something I’ll do in between waiting for the theory test and training for the practical.

(4) Driving test (only register after passing the theory)

Register for the exam = £62 per exam
Timeline= I suppose it will be similar, 3 weeks

You could use your driving school’s car, which you’ll pay to rent it.

or you could rent from the test centre, which I think it is at £115 for weekday, £141 for weekend exam.

or you could use your own car, which must be insured, fully serviced (no warning lights on the dashboard lighting up), L-plate installed, well, it should be proper.

If fail, also have to retake and pay the full price again to re-take! (the test fee, the car rental...urgh!)

If pass, re-submit the documents, the provisional license for update to full, pink coloured UK driving license. I suppose this will be another 2 weeks of wait

I am not sure how much this will costs (for the transition of provisional to full-driving license)

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So, by the time the license is at hand, it’ll take roughly at least 3-4 months, alongside with expenses at least £250 and above, that is hopefully, one doesn’t fail too often for either one of these tests.

This is half the battle.....

I'll update later on the rest.

latest pekeliling I heard from MITI is that dependent spouse who follow along with you can also get AP. I am not sure how true this is. Anyone else heard about this?

If ure a student more than a year u can get Personal AP.

How about if ure working here? Is it depending on the years as well?

Anyone know?

I wanna import a toyota supra twin turbo back from Japan. What type of AP do I need? I asked a few import car dealers they said even if you import the car in malaysia, you can register for road use because its too old. But my brother's e class he import by buying a student ap from a student who was studying in UK. And the car was already 7 years old when he import into malaysia. Went through puspakom and registered no problem