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demonx:
I've heard that when receiving a freshly imported car moisture/mould etc etc is a common occurance.

Anyone have any tried and tested advice to stop/minimize this?

Cheers

Allan

ozpont:
.. yes it does.. often very seriously . .and can worsen your experiences with AQIS inspections big time.
  It also acts like an incubator for spiders.. Black widows in particular.. and they come often from stored vehicle archs and older parts in cardboard boxs etc.
  Consider putting.. or lining the floor area with newspaper to help absorb the moisture. Do the same on the   cars carpet area's.. Covering the cars with plastic is good and bad.. in the obvious ways.
   We had an estimated 500 Black Widows born and crawling in on NON-DIRECT 40 footer a few years back.. luckly circumstances meant we didn't get first exposure and eventual fumigation took them out.. .

nifty:
my importer mate had worse problems than that as well...... a perfect 74BB vette in black arrived....with blistered paint.....along with a few other cars that suffered the same problems......thankfully the 59 vette didnt suffer.....the only thing he could put it down to was moisture in the container. it may cross the equater several times on its journey if it takes a slow boat...and dont think for a minute that your container will stay on the boat...if food goods or other more important things need your spot then they get it....the 74 sat on dock for 3 weeks waiting for a ride to aust....
he now gets a very heavy coat of wax applied in the states...(read what ever colour car you get it will be white when you open box.) seems to work or so he says...
he no longer buys cars to sell but does still import cars into aust for customers.....he in states now and has 13 cars on dock waiting for trans.

demonx:
ok - thanks for the advice

Surely there has to be something that can be put in the car other than just newspaper that can absorb large amounts of moisture?

WARFARIN:
Mica Gel or Silica Gel or something like that. You know the little packets of stuff in packages like a camera or a dvd player or similar but only about the size of a postage stamp.

I have seen these in very large size [500grams+] in very large electrical equipment shipped from overseas.

Don't know where you could get it, but it exists.

Also I have seen a product "Dampsorb" but a long time ago. This was a fabric package like a large bread roll.

Was at BBC-Hardwarehouse-Bunnings from memory.

I gather the black coupe is gone/going and this convertible is the replacement. Perhaps I should go back to elsewhere on the forum?

The words I wish to describe with are not allowed!!

SWEET!

David

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