Oh awsome, thanks, never saw wiki, must be blind!
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I've bought 2 shipments of parts through nissan ZA over the internet.
I generally email/talk with Karin Britts. I send the parts department a request containing a list of the part numbers from the website.

They ship DHL. It normally takes a couple of months, because most of the parts need to come from Japan (via south africa).

It's a pain in the ass though. $100 worth of parts cost $200 as the banks charge like nothing else to transfer money, then the government puts a 30% duty on top + 25% GST on top of that. The bank doesn't know how much each of the intermediatory banks will charge for the transfer, as no Australian banks have a working relationship with Nissan's bank in J'burg. This means that you have to pay an extra $20-30 bucks per intermediate bank for the transfer. The final bank keeps all of the extra, so that the destination only gets the amount specified in the transfer. And you never get reciepts for where all of the money went.

If you keep the value of the parts below $400, then the duty and GST isn't a problem. DHL chase you up for the duty and GST if it's required, you can pay that over the phone with credit card.

The parts work out to be the same price as equivalent car parts here. It's not a bargain, but if you want the parts bad enough then its ok.

They no longer stock many of the hard to get parts, like glovebox lids,metal grill parts. etc etc. I think Nissan SA will have to stop making the Bakkies soon because the Nissan Japan parts appear to be drying up.
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Guys, I run an import export business for Nissan stuff, (SR20 and RB25/6) www.rezlo.com , If any of you guys need stuff from Nissan SA let me know, I get pretty good discount, and I can ship postal service which would be WAY cheaper than DHL!!!

Just let me know if you need somthing, pref with a part number and ill see if i can help you out.

There is a fair bit of that in the wiki.

http://wiki.datsun1200.com/index.php/Datsun_1200_encyclopedia

Check it out!

Just an idea, maybe make a sticky where people can post a link to webshops or people that sell/supply parts for 1200's and A/L series engines, as well as what they thought of the service ectr,

Would be loverly to get a better idea on what things cost and availability on parts to make more informed decisions.