inside this box is the cheapest brand
new vehicle you can buy today and we got
it of Alibaba for
$2,000 it took us 4 months for this
thing to come to our offices here at
donut and today the day that we unbox
it we're going to talk about what it
takes to import a car from across the
globe then we're going to take it for a
test drive and figure out whether or not
this thing was worth all that time and
money welcome to
Donut so I found out about these little
Japanese K trucks that farmers use that
are really popular in America now
they're pretty cool and I kind of want
one but here's the thing those things
are like 25 years old now and they're
pretty expensive so instead of spending
about $10,000 for one I can buy one of
these on alibaba.com for 2,000 bucks so
this this is the changly clz
kc-10 so you can option this out a bunch
of different ways you can get a
four-door you can get a twoo the twoo
you can get with a hydraulic dump bed
that's pretty cool these are
ridiculously funny looking little trucks
listen 2,000 bucks for this thing it's
got a pretty good amount of options so
let's buy this sucker right now contact
supplier chat now hi there I'd like to
to buy this truck with American dollars
interested in selling me it
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send a response with an emoji okay we'll
see how this goes nice
Emoji here's mine
eggplant now this is the start of what
ended up being a monthl process to get
this truck I didn't know anything about
importing cars from overseas especially
from China and there's barely any
information about the best way to
actually do this so here's a walkr of
what I went through to import this tiny
truck and every dollar I spent along the
way first of all I don't know who this
is that I'm talking to does this person
work for Chang g do they work for
Alibaba is it some company in the middle
I don't know is it an automated response
could be I have no idea but after a week
of going back and forth with her I was
finally able to put in an order with
this company and right off the bat I
found out this vehicle doesn't actually
cost $2,000 what a shocker it cost
$2,080 for the body only now if you want
a battery that's going to be another
$300 but that's just for the standard
lead acid battery if you want a better
battery you can opt for the
$1,345 lithium ion battery which is what
I did I also sprung for the hydraulic
dumped option which cost another 250
bucks so we're already up to
3,675 bucks for a
$2,000 car still that's not bad for a
brand new truck but after submitting the
order I ran into my first real road
block a couple days later when I got
this message do you have a freight
forwarder no what's that who is your
Customs cleared agent no what's that you
need Freight forward before buy I need
Freight forward before buy yes you need
Freight forward before buy I already buy
without Freight forward am I in
trouble no you just need to get Freight
forward before
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buy now if you're going to ship a car
around the world whether it's from China
or Japan or anywhere else a freight
forwarder and a clearance agent are two
people you're going to have to hire
that's because your forwarder is in
charge of things like the negotiation of
freight Chargers booking the cargo space
cargo consolidation and the preparation
of shipping documents which there are a
ton of you need a relationship with the
government ports and Border agencies to
get any of this done in a timely fashion
basically there's a reason there are
huge Freight forwarding agencies that do
this work for you luckily for me the
Port of Los Angeles has a website with a
bunch of forwarders on there that you
can hire which makes it a little bit
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easier hello uh hi yeah I uh am looking
for a freight forwarder oh okay um well
you're a luck
basically okay thanks you think the DMV
is bad try to talk to someone who deals
with ships so I decided to send a
message to my home girl Aaron to see if
she had any leads on getting us a
forwarder and thankfully she was able to
hire a forwarder for me and this is a
service that most oxgen sites are
probably going to offer you I recommend
just forking over the money and save
yourself the headache it took us about a
week going back and forth between a
bunch of different people for us to
finally just decide to use an internal
one and we should have just done that in
the first place and they only ended up
charging us
$455 which isn't bad to ship a car from
China so our $22,000 truck is now
4,130 bucks and with that we wired a
bunch of money to a random person that
I've been messaging on a Chinese website
and officially bought our first Chinese
truck but we're not done yet because we
still need to get a customs clearance
agent now Joby you might be wondering
what is a customs clearance agent not
really okay glad you asked now it's a
middleman who works with your Freight
forwarder files all the paperwork for
you at the Port that way you can
actually release your cargo and to find
one I went back to the port of LA's
website and with some persistence I
finally found one willing to work with
us for the price of
$600 what the heck I don't want to pay
another
$600 well thanks for all the help I'm
going to do it myself anyways you son of
a so I decided to do some more
research and in fact found a website
called easy import you submit some
information for them online and they act
as a clearance agent for you now here's
the thing you got to fill out some of
the paperwork yourself but in the end it
saves you some money now the first form
I had to fill out was an ISF form this
notifies the port of arrival that you
got cargo coming in and what that cargo
is if you don't fill this out you can
get fined up to $5,000 so you got to
fill this out now in addition to this
form you also have to a bond when filing
why do you have to do this I don't know
just one of those things that they make
you do so we did that and then our Chang
Le was free to set saale to
America yeah our truck's coming into the
good old us baby a week went by and
while our tiny truck was sailing across
the Pacific I received a pre-arrival
notice from our final destination
forwarder what the hell is a final
destination forwarder I I've never even
heard of those words before in my entire
life so I had to do a little bit of
research and essentially this person is
yet another middleman that works with
your customs broker to help you get
cargo off the ship once it's here in the
US so this forward told me to fill out a
bunch more paperwork and file it again
through easy import great now after all
of that was cleared we finally had
finished all of our paperwork now this
whole process took over a week and our
truck had to be moved from the port to a
warehouse and Compton a warehouse that I
would have to pay to release our vehicle
and that is when I got the final bill
let's see
$1,155 for forwarding service okay
$2,730 to release it from the warehouse
I can release people from jail cheaper
than that it only cost me
$455 to ship this thing here now it's
$4,000 just to release it from that
American soil onto my American
soil this is absurd and I just have to
pay it and I can't even fight
it look guys these are just fees that as
far as I can tell is something you have
to pay to get your cargo there's no
negotiating there's nothing I could do
except just bite my lip and quietly pay
this person so in total our $2,000
Chinese truck was actually
$8,250 what the heck this truck better
be really nice at this point I probably
could have bought me a used K truck that
had already been imported into the
states so $8,000 later it's finally time
for our Chinese dump truck to be
delivered could this thing possibly be
worth all the time and effort at this
point I don't know let's unbox it and
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today okay are we done great
all right Joby how about we unbox this
thing oh
nice oh we got our first wheel
siding oh look at the wood grain it's
like Christmas
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morning well that unboxing process was
pretty fun that was a lot of fun the
quality is um how do I put this not
great look at this little thing micro
USB
welding wire sticking out everywhere oh
my God if we like hit a curb this
thing's going to explode yeah it's funny
how light this stuff is that is made out
of the thinnest steel they could find
it's not all about thickness
job that's good and sturdy it's a
beautiful day to put the put a truck
together what's that Jeff jeef it look
like he used to say jeef oh look at this
look at that we had a donut shirt in
there you can get a shirt like this on
donut media.com came with our truck that
was pretty cool yeah let's check out the
inside of this thing oh look at that
nice steering feel oh look at this
leather man this is like Ford quality
2007 our display here look at this
infotainment Center let's see if our
wipers
work I knew it was going to have a hard
time hitting the window I need my hands
cleaned all the interior functionality
works yeah now let's see if we can
actually drive this thing
yeah you're good you're good you're good
you're good you're
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[Laughter]
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good so loud back up I got to go out
this way
I want to see the load capacity of this
thing see if we can just Pile in a bunch
of boys in the back of the bed see how
much it squats it hey Nolan I need your
body yeah okay get up in
there hit the dump hold on to your
butts we got a hot load of dudes dumping
off this is Man versus Truck 3 two 1
go I think two of us could do
it wow no come on Crocs are not get in
here put them in sport
mode okay
ready okay well we got a bunch of strong
boys here or this is just really weak I
don't know no it's the first one all
right well let's go see how fast it goes
let's turn it on oh we're in kilometers
an hour yeah okay and we're off and
we're
off and we're on the streets in our
$2,000 Chang Le truck steering's nice
and light and Nimble let me feel oh you
ain't kidding
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yeah well it's been 30 seconds and the
people love it yeah oh bump test not bad
not bad at
all it doesn't have
great dude 58 k an hour
yeah that's it it's Tapped Out to the
floor really this is high gear yep the
suspension isn't super soft you can't
really lean back yeah um it's not really
meant for tall guys like us and you
really get the sense that uh the
craftsmanship is a little bit suspect
there's all sorts of noises and rattles
and things banging around how's the
brakes they uh they're not bad but
they're not good
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all right Jerry well uh we just pulled
into the Home Depot what are we getting
well I think like any standard pickup
truck is always measured by can it to a
sheet of plywood we need a couple sheets
at the office yeah and this is our new
work truck so let's see if we can get it
in okay let's go get some
plywood where the are we going to put
this thing well we're just going to
strap it
down I haven't seen it out in the the
wild
yet Perfect Dude I put it in low gear
and it worked
great okay now hold
that perfect okay step one complete
there
go that ain't going nowhere
dude what that sounds terrible yeah but
I don't know what it would
be offro section I'm afraid the plyo
is know well you know when there's
traffic hit the sidewalk hit the
sidewalk dude not a problem this is a
real Truck Yeah and we did all that with
two sheets of 4x8 plywood in the back
man you know after A Hard Day's Work
picking up plywood I could use a donut
oh yeah we should take it through
drive-thru yeah yeah that was quick yeah
can I get a dozen uh sorted please thank
you
sir here you go all right Joby well it
did some truck stuff we had a lot more
fun than I thought we were going to have
yeah was fun I don't know if this thing
was worth 8,000 bucks though I can't
think that it is but here's the thing we
still want to do some stuff with it so
leave you some comments down below let
us know what should we do with our
changly truck yeah we're all about that
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