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A.D.I.D.A.S,

I would read through the ads on the trading post http://www.tradingpost.com.au/ as well as your local paper (although you're from Dubbo, maybe try a Sydney paper instead) and you'll start to see what certain models go for. Have a look in our for sale section on here too. If you don't want to get ripped off, just keep an eye on the "market" and you'll know straightaway when someone is asking way too much!

As for km's...try to ignore them, the condition of the car is far more important. As well as the fact that they might not be the actual km's :D

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I could have bought another 10 Ladas instead of the GTR :P

That's 15 tonnes of cold-war street weaponry! Did I make the right choice...

Oh - and on the subject of KMs: if the car has had a replacement instrument cluster (ie: stock to Nismo 320) then the true total KMs of the car will be hard to know.

Pva_Glue Grand Master

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Originally posted by Strich9ine

I had a 1997 sonata previously, bought it for $14,000, sold it for $7500 2 years later.... guess who got ass-raped ?

as for my R33..... :P not saying

Bought a 1994 R33 GTS-4 Non-turbo with few mods (Blitz ECU, Struts, Pods and adaptors) for $19,000, sold after 17 month later for $10,500... ;)

guess who got ass raped? eh?

reasale for imports R sucks!!! :D

cheers

Joe

JimX Grand Master

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Originally posted by Pva_Glue

Bought a 1994 R33 GTS-4 Non-turbo with few mods (Blitz ECU, Struts, Pods and adaptors) for $19,000, sold after 17 month later for $10,500... :D

guess who got ass raped? eh?  

reasale for imports R sucks!!! :P

cheers

Joe

I think there has just been a flood of them lately as people are starting to realise how easy and cheap it is to buy your own from the auction yards in Japan. Two years ago I didn't think it was something you could do yourself, but now I (and lots of other people) know better.

Prices seem to have settled over the last year or so - R33 GTS-t's are going for roughly the same as they were this time last year ($16k for a '93 model, $28k for a '97 model and everything in between). On my insurance policy the agreed value is exactly the same as it was last year too.

Also, consider the owner of your old car - if it devalues the same amount again in the next 17 months he'll only be able to sell it for $2000. I don't think that's likely.

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