International Shipping Question (380 Bumper Covers)
I've been playing around with the notion of getting some 380 VRX Body Parts on my car (Front/Rear Bumper Cover and Spoiler). Over the last few months I've looked into stuff quite a bit digging around on various forums (mostly Australian) and even talking to a few Australians on Facebook. From what I've read and heard, the parts are not bad to get in Australia. Basically you or someone goes into a Mitsubishi Dealership and they can order them. I think they said it cost somewhere around 250 for each of the parts basically. I can't just order them off some website and have them shipped AFAIK. It seems I have to either find a courier that I pay and trust or go there myself. According to AU Mitsubishi they can't sell me anything themselves because of safety restriction differences between the countries. I'd need a courier (which I think I can get) but shipping it is CRAAAZZZYYY expensive. It's something around 4-5x the cost of the part in shipping, which is not even close to worth it I don't think. The big part of its expense is the dimensions of the parts.
I'm really just wondering if anyone has had any experience with international shipping for larger car parts. I know JDM stuff is pretty big in any import circle. Also, can bumper covers be rolled up at all? I was wondering the possibility of taking a bumper cover and just rolling it up inside a box. That would make the dimensions a lot better I would think.
Any help is appreciated. This is more something I've been theoretically working out the feasibility of more then anything.