Has anyone successfully ordered JDM parts from Rakuten: Global Market - Shopping Japanese products from Japan ? Found some shuttle parts i'm willing to test fit on my fit.

Was shipping an arm and a leg like other online stores from Japan? Did it take long?

Difficult to get a shipping price from them, since the shipping price is not charged at point of purchase. The seller will contact you with the shipping charge after.

 

I haven't yet, but ITEM9 over at the CRZforum has... here's some of his posts...

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Originally Posted by ITEM9

It comes out to about $200 shipped to Tenso and it cost about $35 for Tenso to forward it to me including their service fee.

From what I understand, he bought items from rakuten, then shipped them to Tenso who then shipped them to him here in the states. Using Tenso, you can also buy off yahoo auctions and Tenso will ship to you here in the US. He was saying he might do a step by step DIY, but not sure if he ever put one together. One can figure it out pretty easy using the info above though.
There's also nengun.com (I believe), and the easiest way is to email japanparts.com a pic or a link of the items you're looking for and they will add them to their catalog.. not the cheapest but the simplest. It will come out less expensive if you go the rakuten-tenso route (but will take some translating & navigating of sites).

If you try it, let us know what Shuttle parts fit the USDM GE8.

 

awesome reply, +rep to u FitStir.

the shuttle parts i'm looking at specifically are the mugen infinity grill and the modulo front bumpers. also the modulo splitter lip. i'm not quite sure if the USDM rear bumper is the same as the Shuttle rear bumper (it appears more elongated than ours), so i'm not sure if the modulo rear bumper would fit, but it would be great if someone can confirm part numbers etc. I can't seem to find a shuttle parts list to compare part numbers with.

i have emailed 3 stores for stock confirmation, and so far only one has confirmed stock for the shuttle grill. i'm waiting for the front bumper to reply, bc that's the one i really want.

 

Hmmmm... good choices/ideas... from what I've read/heard the fit shuttle front should be just like our USDM GE8's. If those fit you're almost there since for the rear you can just use the JDM GE8 Mugen rear (iirc, the rear conversion is much, much simpler; only requiring removal of the USDM bar or something).

Oh, also I forgot to mention, I believe rakuten doesn't ship directly to the US which is why he had to use a forwarding service.

I'm not sure how Item9 confirmed the parts #'s but I believe on google somehow, maybe searching yahoo auctions or rakuten searching/cross-referencing the part #'s. Might be a good idea to sign up over at the www.crzforum.com and ask him.

Good luck, and from your parts list, the end result will look GREAT!!!!!!!

 

yep, i know u have to use a forwarding service, i may end up buying the modulo middle piece first

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It's only $150 + ungodly shipping. If it doesn't fit then I won't cry so much if i opted to get the other parts which are around $500+ungodly shipping. If it fits at least i'll be 99% sure the other parts will fit.

 

Good idea, go small until you know the other parts fit.

From your parts list the final product will definitely be unique and look good.... Love those Modulo parts.

 

ok that was pretty simple. i placed an order for the modulo middle garnish and the modulo Fit Emblem ring.





Cost was about $214 with domestic shipping to Tenso. I guess i'll find out how much international shipping is from Tenso in a few days.

I made a Tenso account as suggested from the crzforums and the website comes in English format also. They have a very simple diagram to follow on how to purchase from several jp websites.

1. Make an account in Tenso
2. Shop Rakuten, Amazon.jp, etc
3. Ship domestically to Tenso
4. Tenso will weigh and email back when they receive product to how much international shipping costs.
5. Wait for it to come in the mail, hopefully customs don't kill you.

Its very useful to use Chrome because it has a built-in translator, but I also found it useful to use the separate google translator and flip the website back and forth to its english and jp versions, and just translate some text manually which Chrome would miss.

Tenso also provides how to enter your Tenso address for each individual website. Rakuten for some reason would not accept kanji text in the english version of the website, but Tenso will provide you with exactly how to enter your Tenso address in english to the Rakuten website.

Thanks for the help. I hope this information also helps someone else brave enough to purchase from japan directly. I'll post pics soon as i get the stuff here and the install.

 

i did notice that Rakuten is also offering international shipping, however, the prices are upto the individual vendors. Tenso would be the best way, since their prices are alot more predictable versus the vendors that may gouge you with international shipping. Some websites already charge an arm and a leg such as autostylejp, that charge almost the same price as the product.

Hopefully everything works out well.

 

little update:

Tenso finally got my package and gave me its shipping price. The cost of shipping was $33.20. The package consisting of the lower front bumper garnish and an emblem cost $216.27. Not bad, I would say.

I also ordered a 3D carbon fiber rear honda emblem decal which cost about $21. With shipping it ended up to be $42.93. Pretty much twice the price for an item that weigh ounces.

Tenso is the way to go. Unfortunately, since Tenso only received my order today - a friday, it won't be shipped until Monday. I can't wait to see if my garnish fits.

 

Item said the same thing... Tenso's the way to go.
Looks like it's a quite economical way of buying/shipping JDM items over here.

Can you request parts that are not on their site also at Rakuten?

 

i've been emailing a couple of the vendors, some have been helpful, but the language barrier is huge. its so hard to understand my question and their responses. Another vendor, upon realization that I was from the overseas, simply responded I don't transact internationally. I don't know if they will help you locate parts that are not on Rakuten though.

 

Ok so after 6 days, both of my orders are here.

Here's a little preview, i'll check fitment and install later when I have time.

 

Gotcha... checking out the site, overall most of the parts I need they have on Rakuten, for the 2-3 small items I can order them thru japanparts.com, they already added them for me. Also from what I'm noticing as well, it's going to come out cheaper thru Rakuten...

Congrats on the parts!!!! I see you got the "puffy" carbon fiber steering wheel emblem. Nice...

 

lol thanks. actually its the rear emblem. i just finished installing the fit emblem ring and the 3d honda logo decal.

i compared some prices between rakuten and the US websites of these japanese vendors and the mark up is even higher before shipping. Rakuten + Tenso is the way to go. Did I mention that they are running 50% off shipping through Tenso until the 29th? Too bad I need to go pay off my credit cards first.

so far fitment on the front lower garnish is good. i don't have enough time to install it today. i'll try tomorrow.





the website says that the color was supposed to be metallic blue, but it comes out to be more like a metallic slate (dark gray with a hint of blue).

 

also for those others willing to search Rakuten, here are some search tips for u:

keywords:
ge8
gp2/gg7/gg8 (Honda Shuttle)

also use just simple words like bulb, lamp, mirror, they have different terminologies or translation for english words.

also, the japanese version of the site and the english version of the site shows different results sometimes.

 

next experiment, front grill. i would eventually get the mugen front half or the bless front half.

help me choose one:

Mugen Grill + Front Half Lip:



Bless Grill + Front Half Lip:



Personally I like the Mugen better. Lines are more seamless and I'm sure fitment would be impeccable. Not to mention I can get it already painted in ASM. I'm also not quite sure how I would access the Fog light assembly underneath when I have to change the bulb. Bless looks alot more aggressive, but i'll have to get matching sideskirts too because of the lip. The Mugen flows more seamlessly with with the existing sport kit.

 

Oy. It's terribly difficult to navigate through Rakuten, but I did manage to eventually find the Modulo front caps for the Shuttle. I think Ryu's lower garnish is enough to confirm that the 2012 bumper is indeed the same as the Shuttle's, which is great news for us.

Get the Mugen grille and tell us how it goes! I'm looking into doing the Modulo front caps, but I need to replace my spoiler first

 

$1,000 Mugen madness going downtown

 

Whoa. That Bless thing is rad.

 

Madness is LED fog conversion kit. 1200 dollars right there...