Dealer Tried To Screw Me..

[Rekin]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=126208

Referring to this thread, ive decided to post the conclusion of the story here as I can get more views from forum members who know their skylines.

Put a deposit on car on Saturday and told dealer i was coming on Wednesday to take to pre-inspection. He kept telling me inspections are waste of time blah blah but I refused to accept it. He was also interested in which mechanic i was going to. Told him EAS Performance in Victoria

Driving to dealer today, he calls me when im 15mins away and tells me that he wont be in but his mechanics will be. Then he continues by saying that they will then follow me to the inspection place. Although it sounded shifty i just agreed and arrived at the dealer.

Walk into EAS Performance, and the owner tells me that the dealer called him a couple of days ago. Why would a dealer call my inspection place? I didnt even give him any details of the location or phone number.

EAS says it will take 1hour~

After 1hour, the results were not good.

Compression test:

no.1 = 130psi

no.2 = 135

no.3 = 145

no.4 = 130

no.5 = 135

no.6 = 140

Leak down Test:

no.1 = 20%

no.2 = 5%

no.3 = 50%

no.4 = 20%

no.5 = 15%

no.6 = 20%

ignition output, fuel pressure, fuel flow, engine facets and gearbox facets, suspension all good.

The one major problem is that I believe the car has gone for a swim.

Quoting report

"Checked interior and found suspect water damage due to heavy water staining in foot wells on carpet underlay and vehicle has a heavy mould odour in interior cabin

Rpm tacho damaged cause unknown required further inspection.

Checked boot floor and found corrosion in spare tyre well also boot matting and spare tyre cover damaged due to excessive water in boot."

That means the water level was up to the boot carpet and the reason tacho playing up could be due to watch damage.

"Vehicle exterior seems to have had fresh paint on RH front guard bonnet and front bumper bar. RH rear quarter panel and bar seem to have fresh paint also. "

I found some japanese auction pictures from a friend and the car showed a dent on the left side (refer to original link). That was fixed and dealer said nothing about. Maybe the car got cut off, got hit and landed in a river? who knows haha.

Now for the most amusing part. Guess who arrives to the inspection workshop. The Dealer himself! So he approaches me as we standing outside and asks how the test went. I tell him that ther is water damage and its been resprayed. He replies with "oh didnt i tell you it was resprayed?" So then he says "I wont be at the dealer when you drop the car off so pass the keys to mechanic".

Arrive back at dealer and give them a copy of the report along with the key. Tell him that the price is too high and that the dealer should contact me.

When i put down the deposit of $250 we agreed on a value of $13250. Now i dont know what to do....

Should i tell him that I will take it for $10,000 or just pass on the whole deal. Considering he started the compliancing after the deposit he will put up a fight.

How much would it cost to fix the engine up?

Any advice would be helpful as I will probably get a call from him tomorrow and dont know what to say...

Thanks goes out to EAS Performance (Victoria) and Al.

- Patrick

[nfi]

If I was you I would leave the car WELL ALONE.

A car that has been for a swim could get all sorts of electrical problems due to the short circuiting that may/may not have happened.

The compression is really bad as well. The engine is almost finished. 50% leakdown!!!! That cylinder will always be burning oil badly. Thats what the white smoke would be. Anymore than 10% leakdown is ordinary. 20% is the absolute worst you would want it to be.

If its was me I would tell him your not even slightly interested in this car but may be in another car he has.

If you buy it you have potentially got a car full of rust deep in the chassis with an engine that is almost finished.

Do yourself a favour and don't get it. Its just not worth it. Try and screw him for the deposit back. Won't be easy but with hardwork it is possible. I have done it once before.

Hope that helps.

James

[dezz]

agree what nfi said, except being interested in another 1 of that dealers cars. he's obviously a liar, and a bit of a shifty dealer....what makes you think his other cars are going to be any good?

[eMsta]

RUN!!! dont even pause to think about it! JUST RUN!!!!

Im sure you wouldnt want to spend even 10 grand on a car that was sleeping with fish.

As for the dealer - dodgey SOB, i think he should be investigated or something....

[Guest intouch]

ahah f**k, i told u man!!i tried to warn u nigga

[sewid]

The tacho was probably accidently damaged when the odo was wound back or during the carbon fibre cluster wanky thing installation.

13k is too expensive.

[Rekin]

Just got off phone with dealer. Actually quite suprised as he was not pushy and offered to send me a check of the value of the deposit.

I hope this thread has not swayed any of you to think less of the dealer as this incident has only happened to me. Another member has purchased a car from this dealer and had no troubles and actually got a great deal.

I guess I was just unlucky.

sewid: comparing the Jap interior picture with my own inspection, both km's matched up. So it wasnt wound back when it arrived in australia, It was touched back in Japan

Thanks

Patrick

[Al]

As we talked about at EAS, "Better to loose $250 than having to spend another $10,000+ fixing a rust bucket".

Hopefully the cheque is genuine and does not bounce :

[_8OO5TED_]

give him $5K for it and strip it down and sell the parts, sounds like a bit of a timebomb.....