I dropped the Hudson off at the shippers this morning for delivery back to Australia after doing a 6000 mile round trip across USA and back. I imagine my surprise when they got me to park the car in a spot and the car behind me was an A coupe(nice car too) that was being shipped for a friend in Brisbane. Note the sign advising that brake shoes(and probably clutch pads) were removed as our Customs comes down hard if there is any asbestos in the vehicle.John knows his stuff and has been importing for years so it would be done right.
do you think there really was asbestos in the brake shoes? i don't they have used that in replacement shoes for many years...and i doubt it has original shoes
Doesn't matter our Border Force (Customs) have gone full retard on enforcing the import of Asbestos. They only need to suspect there is asbestos and they will quarantine/hold until testing is carried out, on your dime no less.
Not the point. Customs will want to pull things apart to check if you have brake or clutch parts in there. Nothing can come in with asbestos. Shit hit the fan when new (guess who) Chinese vehicles were being imported here, supposedly compliant, but were found to have asbestos in parts. Now all cars have to be checked. Better to have anything suspect removed before it lands here and the customs dudes get hold of it .
I just learned about this...I've been watching Mighty Car Mods videos on Youtube, they recently imported a 240Z from Japan and had to deal with this - no brake pads, no clutch allowed. I forget the amount, but the fines for violating the rules are crazy.
I just read a report not too many months ago that stated that there is still quite a bit of asbestos used in the world today for brake and clutch parts as well as non-automotive applications still finding their way into Canada. The use of asbestos has yet to be banned in Canada, and imported parts are not always asbestos free. A complete ban of asbestos parts is supposed to happen in 2018 ... sometime. I don't know if it has happened yet or not. So yeah, it's quite possible to buy parts containing asbestos in Canada today, and quite possibly other parts of the world where you would think otherwise.
So if someone purchases, say, a brand new Holden with a stick shift. The car should or is compliant? Just curious. A search brings up lots of importing info for collector cars.
The only Holdens you can buy would be last years model, as they packed up their manufacturing plant here last year, but the clutch is supposed to be asbestos-free, same with the brakes, but who knows? The Guvmint has a deathwish for all old cars to be imported, and having an asbestos ban is a handy way of slowing it down.
I should be dead . I did hundreds of brake jobs in the 60's and 70's and just blew of the brake backing plates with the air nozzle . I am 70 and doing fine. On a side note I have a pilot friend that is 6 ft 2 inches, looks like an NFL Q-back, never smoked, never worked around chemicals and he just fond out he has stage 3 lung cancer . Go figure .
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