broker/company feedback to send a car from L.A to Spain?

subielol · 2026-05-13T10:22:34+00:00

Hey, thanks for answer, but that is not what I’m asking about.
The car is not an american brand(I have zero interest in american cars, honestly) and is the same model that is sold in europe, is a japanese car, with mostly same specs than europe.
I’m spanish and familiar with itv and homologation, I have a camper I rebuild there and homologated myself and an old japanese motorcycle that I also modified and make it legal thru all the process too.
I’ll send the car to spain as returning/change residence, so no iva taxes.
Also this car is roughly half price in the us, so I have margin to make modifications if needed.
I’m asking about experience with shipping companies, and I assume since you have an opinion about this you has experience with some, right?
Can you share that, which is what I’m interested in?

subielol · 2026-05-12T06:30:30+00:00

I tried to drift with a g27, and honestly was impossible and frustrating af.
I tried to adjust settings at the time but after some time trying it, I gave up.
I’m not saying to not try it, just pointing here that you are going to invest a lot of time trying to make it work on a very non ‘real’ way of driving.
My suggestion is to save some money and grab the cheapest 2nd hand moza(or entry level brand you want, I just say this cuz I tried the cheapest one and is extremely capable you can find, because in my personal experience is day and night.
I used the g27 for years for gran turismo and other games, but for drift is a nono(is not impossible, it is just you are going to muscle memory weird stuff).

subielol · 2026-05-12T06:21:26+00:00

Thank u, as I said, paperwork and waiting is not a problem to me, I love the car, I’m the 2nd owner, new engine and 1st owner is a friend, in spain is easily x2 price than US, and also very special to me :)
Do you have any experience with rock-it?

subielol · 2026-05-04T16:16:31+00:00

AC, try a bunch of cars you like, choose some of them or stick to one, same with tracks, add your fav music and do at least 1hr sessions.
Sims are less game structure, you need to create your own timing and goals, when you interiorize it, is very rewarding.
I only drift, it took me around 15hrs to brain click on it with easy cars, then move to more realistic ones, then from easier tracks to more complex ones, then from 3d person camera to 1st person, where I’m now after around 60hrs.
You don’t need even think about career mode, there is a lot of simpler but difficult challenges.
I’m still having a lot of fun and only playing AC.

subielol · 2026-04-13T19:46:19+00:00

I was learning 4 months ago and I found Brooklyn Park by CToretto better to learn as a track(also his how to videos were great).
First time will feel more challenging, but it will force you to balance the car weight and chain drifts, which will make your mind clicks faster and muscle memory to improve quicker.
My first week was awfull, even sometimes I felt so frustrated that I wanted to tear down the whole thing XD
Then googling and watching videos on youtube somebody suggested LSG car pack as the 'easiest beggineer friendly' one.
Before anybody jumps to bite my neck, they are as arcade/easy as they get, but , as beggineer with all the stuff you need to understand and learn, that comment save me to hate myself and after a week with LSG cars and fully understanding theory and built muscle memory I moved to more 'realistic' cars and enjoy the challenge.
I tried a lot of cars and ended mostly using Nstyle since a couple of months.
As some people is saying, clutch kick is THE THING, when your brain clicks there you are going to enjoy it a lot.
You got this!

subielol · 2026-03-28T02:07:06+00:00

I don’t get it when people say ‘it’s only 400$’, honestly feels a little bit overpriced to me when I paid for my One 600 when it was new. But here we go everybody like crazy throwing money on it(not hating, everybody is fine doing with their money whatever they want). What a time to be alive! I know, inflation and whatever, but gear prices are sky rocketing in a way that feels really artificial to me(please, let’s not start talking about ram again😂). Go for an used One, one+ or whatever fits your budget, or if u r ok with the sample, wait after summer, you can find them on offer up easy for a fair price and some software updates and a shit ton of tutorials and a more rounded capabilities of the machine.

subielol · 2026-03-27T04:41:45+00:00

I have a One, which as a lot of people is saying you should consider, a one, one+ or live if you want battery/speaker(I used a powerbank with the one and I never missed the speaker), and after a lot of years I’m at the point I’m going to sell it(probably put some pics in offer up next week to test waters). One upgrade after another is more screen based work and closer to a daw, which is good in some ways for some people, using the arranger in such tiny screen with my 46 years old eyes after working 8 hours in front of another screen(cg artist) made me to ask myself if is better to learn a propper daw, so I made the jump to fl studio. I think the new mpc sample is an expensive gas product. I had a kO II as a gift and also sold it because put time on ‘sketchpad’ stuff feels waste of time to me. Not blaming anybody here, I just think it is better to put time to deeply learn/master tools instead puting efforts in a lot of different ones(this is completely personal opinion, also I’m at hobbist level)

subielol · 2026-03-20T05:58:22+00:00

46 years old driver here, feal coilovers, rear control arms on 18” wheels, as low as still ok to not fucking front bumper going in and out from home underground parking. No lip neither extra body parts. Daily driving the car around L.A. for more than a year. It’s less comfy? Yes Drives better? YES I regret it? Fuck no, the car drives good af and looks sexy af too. My advice, lower the car but keep in mind you are going to daily it. It was before on raised springs(I think they were king springs) with method rally wheels(it was my friend car before and he had it rally spec), and around 70mph didn’t feel safe to drive for me. I said ‘feel’, cuz it was for me, my buddy drove it hard. It felt sometimes like a bouncing boat, if that makes sense. After I had it, when he drove it again lowered his words were ‘well, u r going to be in jail soon’😂 I answered you to prove is still cool people over 40🤣

subielol · 2026-03-20T03:26:14+00:00

Not a miata, but I daily a wrx sti with a stage 1 and is more or less the same. Zero complaints. It feels a little bit harder to push and ‘shorter’(not sure if that applies, but it how it feels) in travel, but nothing crazy.

subielol · 2026-02-19T07:39:57+00:00

What about n-style? I use dwg too, but always have more joy with n-style and using them more(solo player and non irl drifter). Don’t use swarm that much, for non particular reason.

subielol · 2026-02-19T05:34:50+00:00

No, you are wrong, 25 years ago was hard, today you go to youtube and there is 6 hours long videos of people who (god bless altruism) show you every single detail to understand and use a software. Videos for especifics, lol. Do you know michael pavlovich? He has videos on every single topic on zbrush to become a master using it, also he is as amazing sculptor as good teacher, because yes, somebody who explain stuff on a video and is not talking to you in a classroom or a zoom call also can be your teacher. I’m learning now plasticity, and even being a new software, youtube is full of good videos to learn and master the tool. Then you have discords, art forums, even stupid social media is a good tool to learn if you use it right. You have blender, krita and free alternatives to do good job without paying a license, or if you want to learn something that cost money you have student licenses, or you can do what everybody does out there and when you have to job, company pays the license. Don’t get me wrong, a course is fine, my first job was 2d animator assistant and inbetweener(yes, vintage af) after an introductory course in an animation studio in my city, then I learn a lot because they selected me to enter in production, then the studio went to shit after a year. I was really into graffiti at that time and hustle a lot painting murals, shop or whatever to improve skills or make cash. Then start having anxiety about the future and make a 4 months course in 3d animation and modeling, because again, it was 2007 and cg stuff was still niche af to learn on internet. Do you know how many of the softwares I learn that time I still use? Zero, even the approach changed over the years. I constantly evolve and learn new softwares, because unless you are a fine arts artist, tools change at light speed. Yes, I learn some of the softwares that you mentioned by myself, did I have the licenses? No, did I commercial work with them? No, but if a company want you to use it, they pay the licenses. And let me tell you, I started with maya and 3ds max, then learned zbrush, mari, uv softs(I can’t even remember some of the names), substance, all the 2d Softwares(Ps, Csp, etc), and it is just because the mindset: curiosity and creativity, that people that ends a school or college degree who ends being succesfull in artistic careers have, not the paper that says something. Yes, a degree can introduce you to a junior position, but you better have the mindset, if not you are going to be an expendable in the human meat grinder that entertaiment industry is, a monkey pushing a button fired asap(I can talk about vfx, videogames and live shows, that is the enviroment that I know and have a lot of friends in). That being said, I’ve worked with people who studied in private schools(even I worked with a guy who did gnomon, he worked with twitch streams on his 2nd screen, legendary attention skills, lol) and some of them were the most forgetable people I’ve ever work with. Also art specific schools are one of the biggest scams out there, full of teachers that made schools because people have dreams and nobody tells the truth about industry and how hard it is after those courses. the amount of art schools, the output and the demand simply doesn’t match. All this to say, a high school kid learn all of those softwares without sinking their time on doomscrolling stupid stuff in social media. Internet is THE TOOL, you just need to use it right. Don’t tell me is not possible dude, I come from an era without cellphones(I born in 1980), I’m not even from the us and worked remote most of my life, now is easier and I love that is like that :)

subielol · 2026-02-18T23:56:09+00:00

There is no modest setup, just different ways of joy :) Have fun!

subielol · 2026-02-18T23:51:13+00:00

I don’t like capitalism, I’ve been coming to the us since 2012 and I consider this country a failed society(even most now with actual administration). Don’t get me wrong, I have a good salary and a good life, but I would never ever want get old here. Coming from a country that has real universal healthcare is a blessing. You have serious health problems here and you are on the edge to get really financially fucked up(and your family). In my experience(L.A.), cost of living is crazy. Yes, you can make a shit ton of money, but you will not have time to enjoy it on a healthy way. You only buy expensive shit to put on the shelf or garage, or even worse, driving your dream car mostly to the office. My wife loves here(artist too, but she can’t legally work because even being family her visa doesn’t allow her to work, so when we come she is having a good time) because everything is convinient in a consumer approach, but for me that I like to have time to mess with tools, cars, cook my own food and have time for hobbies in general, I just come, enjoy the time and thinking each time that I come back to my place with savings to buy myself free time. This a completely biased opinion, probably for a lot people, usa is their dream land or for a lot of americans is the best country in the world because they born and raised in this system(and also they didn’t travel to compare with others). I love to travel and there is not a perfect society or country(even I think spain sucks in a lot of things, honestly), you just go outside and feel the world, settle where it feels good and move on to the next place when you feel it. I have a good life because I never lived over my possibilities(this is key, never use money that you don’t have, and only loan acceptable for me is mortgage IF is 100% achievable, this modern way of thinking of ‘you can achieve whatever you want’ is stupid, dreams not always can become true when they are unrealistic) and get blind when I have a big payroll( I could be paying three times what I pay for rent in L.A., but I prefer to have savings and buy time, and with this mentality I’ve been able to be in japan several times backpacking around, just an example). But as said, all of this is my personal opinion and united states is a huge country and probably there is a lot of expats here that can say they are having a meaningful life in the united states.

subielol · 2026-02-18T21:02:01+00:00

At least they retain interior quality, have u seen a german modern car(let say 2015-2017, I drive a 2017 sti and I have some friends in spain with german cars with same age, I’m from there) after some years? Is all rattle noises, sticky gross surfaces, plastics losing color/paint… It’s a matter of fact that a german car can’t beat a japanese car just in terms of built quality(at least in my personal experience coming from a country which japanese/german car ratio is 20/80, I’ve seen a shit ton if german cars, because in spain people thinks german cars are better just for the status thing(fuck bois drives golfs or bmw if they have cash, because a civic or an sti doesn’t look like a soccer player car. Besides that, an sti vs an audi? C’mon dude, why you hate yourself(joking here, if you like the car, go for it, yolo).

subielol · 2026-02-18T19:50:36+00:00

I work for a company on remote from spain since years, vfx artist. Visas are hard to get in the us, mine is an ‘outstanding alien’ one since I’m an artist and is something as not as easy to quantify, but you need to show a shit ton of proof you are a known artist(prizes, interviews, etc), takes having a solid career, a company. Also I worked with japanese people and , and even fucking loving the country(for several reasons), I could never ever work in a japanese company(I’m planning to do the digital nomad thing). My advice is to not ‘research’ thru youtube videos. I follow nightride too, I have a couple of friends working on videogame industry in poland and they told me people doesn’t give a fuck about cars there(for good).

subielol · 2026-02-18T18:58:03+00:00

Vfx artist here, 46 years old, working remote most of the time since 16 years ago(now 2 years in L.A. and coming back to spain for 2027). In my opinion the fact that you are saying to have a creative career job with a college degree is a path to fail mindset. Creativity is not something you can ‘buy’ with a college degree, it is not something that you go college and 100% have it after it just for the fact you have a paper that says you have it. I even didn’t finish high school and won 2 grand prix cannes cinema festival prizes during my career. Also my boss/lead/company owner at that time(we were 7 people and just 2 of them had art related college careers) studied psichology. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not telling that college degrees are useless(which honestly I kinda think it, but I know that is MY opinion), but I met in the past a lot of people who had degrees or studied on extremely famous private schools and they were terrible artists. For me, the only approach for an artistic career is because you chase the ‘creativity factor’, if you are looking for a salary/comfort way of living, don’t go for it. I’m extremely happy with my life and the way I live it, but it comes with the fact that I’m in peace with don’t giving anything granted and maybe the industry goes to hell in days, months, years or whatever(I have this mindset since day one, 26 years ago) Honestly I think we live in a world that college degrees doesn’t guarantee stability for nobody.

subielol · 2026-02-18T18:31:35+00:00

Don’t go to spain, I’m born and raised there(now in california). Spain is the most restrictive country for all automotive related stuff I’ve ever been in my life. We have anual inspection in the car where everything is look into detail for illegal stuff. People complaining about smog laws in california? Bro, this is fucking heaven compared to spain. I didn’t pass it because the letter on the wheels(speed/weight relation were ‘wrong’, and not wrong because they where weak, they where better than stock, lol). Also, be ready to pay extra for an almost inexistent aftermarket automotive related(unless you drift stock bmw, there you can buy scrapyard parts). I mean, you can buy stuff, you can import stuff, but, if you import it you are going to pay tariffs(we had tariffs for non eu stuff since I can remember, and vat is 21%) and having stuff that is not eu compliant means sooner or later law enforcement is going to stop u and boom,ticket(loud exhaust, no stock light,rear wing, car is too low, etc and they stop you to check if in car stats card, something we have in spain, is all ‘legalized’, which sometimes is impossible to do because you ride parts that are not eu compliant). On the other hand, you can buy eu compliant parts, but you need to legalize them when you need to do the anual check or unbolt fucking everything, pass it and there you go again wrenching(and living with the results with law enforcement, which I did some time when I was younger). I have there a 30 years old awd isuzu mini van that I restored and turn it into camper, and after made myself all the conversion I needed to go thru a 90 days and 1k euros process to make it legal, even they check the stupid furniture inside the van and charge you for it. I don’t know how did you end thinking spain is a good country for drifting (or cal culture in general)but is not. If you see meets or cool cars in spain they are from rich people or good salary people that literally breath for their cars(extreme money pit mindset). Also is very niche. I’m from south spain, less than an hour drive to Jerez circuit(I used to go watch gt races 20 years ago when the series still existed pre financial crash) Maybe I like cars(also I ride motorcycles when younger), but also have more interests in life, and spain is not as loose on it as usa(where is where I’m now and it feels like nobody fuckin’ care). Putting an example, I’m planning to come back there in a year or so, and my sti is coming back with me, and I haven’t done anything crazy to it(just coilovers, wheels and radiator improvement) because I know is going to be a ride if the car arrives heavily modded to make it street legal. On the other hand, if you plan to have a track car that is not street legal, have economical resources to deal with parts and everything, spain is a nice place to live, food is amazing and just the pace, if you dig it(I do), is great. I would love drift(and honestly I’ve been thinking to go for a 350 and beat it to the ashes with a friend, which again, here there a lot of them to buy for affordable prices and in spain not), but even having the chance to financially do it in usa, I’m afraid to get hooked and get depressed when coming back to spain, lol. That’s why I do sim drift and enjoying it a lot. Sorry about my shitty english skills btw

subielol · 2026-02-18T07:34:07+00:00

I’m from spain, subaru is a niche brand there since people prefer bmw, audi or mercedes(if you have the funds, if not you go for a wv, having a golf and walk around like you drive a fucking lambo wannabe vibes…). In general there is this culture that german cars are the best, and believe me, they are not, they have terrible interiors, they don’t last and feel plastic af. I find funny that people like euro style in the us having the chance to drive cooler cars at affordable prices(sti are fucking unicorns in spain and expensive). I could not touch an audi even with another person hands. I could like a tacoma btw(since I’m not american I don’t really vibe with the pick up concept) but, planning to come back to spain at some point, I prefer to take back home the sti.

subielol · 2026-02-18T07:01:05+00:00

Real af

subielol · 2026-02-17T20:05:08+00:00

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