I can, but I don't want to step on toes if other people are organising a group buy. :)

The closest classification code I could get (and I looked for ages :mad:) is 8708999725 - mainly because it says this: "Support bracket of iron or steel, with mounting holes..." So far so good. But then it says this: "...for connecting the gearbox to the...." Hmm. :shrug:

I'd already phoned them before finding this code and they didn't have a clue what a subframe is - no idea at all. I might as well have been speaking in Martian!

Look how complicated the web page tree is here (blah blah>blah blah>blah blah>blah blah>other>other>other>Support bracket etc......)

https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/for...bfacfbd697.jpg

Nightmare of a website!

https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov...th=5&year=2019

If 8708999725 is the correct code, then UK duty is 3.5% and vat is 20% of A+B+C.

A - Cost of goods (purchase price)
B - UK Duty (3.5% of A)
C - Shipping costs

In case anyone is still awake by this stage (unlikely), here's another explanation.

https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/for...bfffc53ac7.jpg

Now all you have to do is learn how to type in Mandarin. And adjust your clock to BST+7 (or is it 8?).

:D

PS. That 2nd pic above is not from the GOV.UK site - that's why it's in English!

I got two prices from two different Chinese suppliers - this is for rear subframe p/n KHB000130.

One quoted $109.20 for the part and (wait for it) $420 for shipping. :eek: That's not a typo - they want £323.40 just for shipping. :eek::eek:

The other supplier quoted $200 for the part and $80 for shipping. Their own website shows the part at £156.46 so that's the figure I used for the overall cost calculation. I make it £268.24 after shipping, duty & vat (if $1.00 = £0.77 and 3.5% is the correct duty).

Does anyone know what the weight of a rear subframe is?

With those shipping costs I think you should have a chat with Matt (DMGRS). Maybe you can negotiate something with him to have some subframes included in a container he may have coming over. That should really minimize the shipping costs. There would likely have to be some sort of markup seeing as his is actually a business. I'm sure it could be worked out favourably for members.

Cheers,
Glenn

The way I looked at my overall $200 shipping cost was, the overall cost saving. Even if I was to have been hit with 100% extra for duty and vat, I would have still saved money.

Last time I saw a rear subframe on rimmers, price was around 5 or 600.

I would guess the rear subframe weight was something like 20-25 kilos.



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I don't think $80 shipping is too unreasonable for something the size of a subframe but $420 definitely is. I could drive there and collect it for less than that (well, almost :D).

Sounds about right to me - I was thinking 50lbs-ish earlier.

Hello all, sorry for the slow reply dealing with this - took a while longer than expected to get our stock of the subframes here with us.

You can order here:
https://www.dmgrs.co.uk/collections/...shes-khb000130

Pricing is as good as we could get - £224.99 inc VAT for the subframe, but of course you can use discount code FORUM5 for 5% off this.

Shipping is £12.99, however if you add other bits and pieces to break the £300 mark it's free. :D

Hi Matt,
Do you have any plans for another batch?


SteveN