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Post by DaveP » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:17 pm

Welcome to the fold...RS4 ownership gets better and better !

I've had my car just over a year now...currently working away so only get to drive it at weekends...came home to her on Friday night...took her out for a blast in bloody horrid conditions and still got blown away at the performance possible in all conditions....

I love my RS4.
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Post by Dippy » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:20 pm

simple1 wrote:Actually makes me laugh.... the dealers give you a hard time if you import a car, at service and warrenty, because you cut them out of the buying loop, then they are quite happy to trade and retail imports as if it were no big thing.... when you think about it, it is ridiculous really.
I have never had any such problems from the three dealers I have been to...
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Post by Dippy » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:28 pm

wayne wrote:My reasons for the original post was ... merely asking fellow members their opinions on personal imported RS4.
It will have been built on the exact same production line as any car ordered through a UK dealer, so there will be no difference from any other UK spec RS4.

As you know, it would not have had an original 3 year warranty, just the Audi warranty which would have expired.

Your only concern should the the perception any future buyer would have, and whatever your insurance company wants to do (some charge an extra premium for personal imports, others still refuse to insure).

Lastly please note UK law: The owner of a personal import must keep the VAT receipt for a minimum of 4 years as proof of payment. This receipt must be passed to the new owner when the car is sold.

If you don't have the receipt then don't worry (although you ought to enquire about it), unless the C&E have a reason to investigate your car.

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Dave

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H&R coilovers, AWE DTS, Porsche front brakes, Short-shifter, 18" RS4 replicas
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Post by wayne » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:37 pm

Hi guy's
Yes do have the vat invoice with the original purchase price of 112500.00de vat equal to £6,178.00 all stamped paid. These custom's form gave me my initial fright haven taken the handbook away for some interesting bed time reading, sad I know. It does state to keep doc's for 6 year's though. Going away for two night's this week with back issue's of autocar, Evo and the hard back audi rs4 sale's brochure definately :lol: got the rs4 bug.. :lol:

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Post by TarmacTerrorist » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:54 pm

wayne wrote:Hi guy's
Going away for two night's this week with back issue's of autocar, Evo and the hard back audi rs4 sale's brochure
Dirty stop out you.

Might be an idea to get some clear plastic covers to keep them protected..
Too much is bad.
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Post by gord » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:07 am

Wayne
As my Mum used to say: 'You'll go blind'.
Meanwhile I'm amazed that this lot havent harrassed you to upgrade the chip, exhaust, brakes, gearshifter and suspension...! So I will start them off: speaking as someone who had both standard and 460bhp cars. I can wholeheartedly recommend the latter, if you think your car is great as it is (which, of course, it is), and some might deem it a shame to 'corrupt' such a beautiful low mileage car, but you will be truly amazed at what can be done to it without compromising reliability, economy etc.
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Post by Dippy » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:05 pm

wayne wrote:Hi guy's
Yes do have the vat invoice with the original purchase price of 112500.00de vat equal to £6,178.00 all stamped paid. These custom's form gave me my initial fright haven taken the handbook away for some interesting bed time reading, sad I know. It does state to keep doc's for 6 year's though. Going away for two night's this week with back issue's of autocar, Evo and the hard back audi rs4 sale's brochure definately :lol: got the rs4 bug.. :lol:
You're confusing me. Is that UK VAT or German VAT?
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Post by wayne » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:30 pm

Yes, HM customs & excise vat certificate on document VAT 413 which has the purchase price in DE, VAT was paid in sterling. Re tuning I believe the car to be chipped to 400bhp + would love to know exact figure and product used, it also has a short shifter but that's it. Maybe need to have car assesed at specialised tuning centre and assess base figure's.

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Post by kennyboy » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:09 am

Dippy wrote:
wayne wrote:Hi guy's
Yes do have the vat invoice with the original purchase price of 112500.00de vat equal to £6,178.00 all stamped paid. These custom's form gave me my initial fright haven taken the handbook away for some interesting bed time reading, sad I know. It does state to keep doc's for 6 year's though. Going away for two night's this week with back issue's of autocar, Evo and the hard back audi rs4 sale's brochure definately :lol: got the rs4 bug.. :lol:
You're confusing me. Is that UK VAT or German VAT?
Dippy, as you've imported your car, you know that VAT is paid to the car's 'new home residency' and you will be familar with the my theroy below.

So my guess is that 112,500 (inc German VAT at 16%) de is for deutch euros (de) as the demise of the deutch mark (dm) was not until 31st Dec 2001 (but dms accepted until 28th Feb 2002). So really it would be 112,500 deutch marks.

So pre tax price was 96,982.80 (dm). So using a exchange rate at the demise of the dm, say 1.95 dm for 1 euro gives a pre tax price 49,754.77 euros

This is rated at 17.5 VAT which comes to 8,703.58 euros. Using exchange rate of 1.409 to the £ pound, VAT becomes £6,177.14 or there abouts.

Hope I don't have egg on my face :oops: but its a good theory :P

PS the original buyer would have recieved 16% VAT back he had already paid to the German car dealer abliet at a different exchange rate, once he had confirmation that UK VAT had been paid.
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Re: Right or Wrong

Post by Paulplumb » Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:47 pm

I owned this car about 10 years ago

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