Import, Headache and Heartache!!

[Geir Nystadius <geir@black-hole.com>]

Dear fellow listers,

The saga continues...

Right now I'm not very far from a nervous breakdown..Have anyone any
experience on importing vehicles into the US?  If you're a "little man" and
not a large company it's kind of overwhelming...

So where do you start? There's a zillion questions that need answers and
you guessed right - no one can answer them for you (or maybe they don't
want to!)

First I called AOA. They told me to contact a "Registered importer". I sent
fax to 7 import companies in NY area. None of them answered!!!! What's the
matter with them? Don't they want to make money?

Then I called Audi in Sweden to ask if they could help me with a list on
the differences between the "Euro model" and the "American model" of the S4
avant.
The answer?? You guessed it! No one could help me with that.
So if not Audi, who makes these 2 models, can't tell me the difference. Who
can??
This must be what they call "Customer service" :-((
Well, I got the fax number to Audi in Ingolstadt. I'll give it a shot.

Why don't I just sell it and buy a new in the US and save me all the trouble?
First of all I have put a lot of TLC and money into her and secondly I'm a
very stubborn person. Now it's a matter of principles and prestige. I guess
when the car touches US soil it will be a veteran ready for the museum ;-)

If anyone here on the list have any experience on import or know where I
can get some help, especially a specification on the differences (things
that need to be converted) between the "Euro" and "American" versions it
would be greatly Appreciated!!

Thanks Audi friends,

PS. When this is all over I'll write a book!!!
Geir, Minneapolis.
audi S4 Avant 1993
http://www.nordicaudi.com/club/Medlem/geir_s4.htm