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yeah i did, but, being so low and 255's checking from the side where i did they looked fine cos the outside 3/4 was good but it was the inside that was scrubbed out and to see that you either need to stick your head right under or look from the back. Theres always something you dont notice.

talkin bout something u dont notice, bout 3 months after i got mine i found an old turbo timer with a couple broken wires apart from that i guess it works ill see soon when i go to hook up my new one, i found that like behind the steering wheel in the dash, and the dealers didnt even know bout it so it looks like they checked out the car thouroughly haha

cheers....

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Basically NEVER BUY A PERFORMANCE CAR FROM A USED CAR DEALER. An importer is a different thing from an import dealer. I would only buy an import from an importer in the future. Especially under the new RAW scheme for imports.

:werd:

Good luck with the fair trading stuff

As a point of note, I would say by personal experience only to get an inspection better than the NSW RACV vehicle inspection equivalent. Cos they do a more detailed check than a RWC (which is basically nothing) and nothing with regards to engine internals are checked meaning when u get the car and get a proper service u are left with a big bill. Get a full VACC inspection where they put it on the hoist instead.

my 2c

yer there are previously before i went to the car yard i actually got my car me and a mate went to another one and asked the salesman if they have or get in skyline turbos, he looked at us and laughed and said all skylines are turbo, my mate and i looked at each other and jus walked off...if they dont know that there are such thing as non-turbo skylines, what hope will they have at knowing anything else..

and also another one i went to with the same mate and my dad, the salesman was sayin to my dad that if i came up by myself without him and wanted to buy an import he wouldnt let me ( coz im young) and he has children and wouldnt wanna see me hurt myself or some bull5hit, i went up there the week later without my dad and he was ready to sign papers coz i wanted to see if he really meant that, guess he was jus tryin to be a hero and pretend he actually cared. Ah well.

cheers...

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thats some pretty scary stuff to hear...

I'm about to fork out $20k for my first sportscar R33gtst.

After looking for weeks on the net etc it seemed to me that many dealers seem to charge high prices for skylines with questionable mileage etc.

Better prices for private but still getting 3rd hand cars etc

So I started looking at importers i found Carmen Import Centre @

Brendale QLD and went round to suss them out.

I talked to Craig Walker there for about 30mins he came accross really well plus he had a nice silver series 2 R33 which i thought was the dux nuts.

So in 2 weeks Im going to ask him to import a grey R33 gtst 93/94 for my budget but must be no accident damage or mods not even bigger wheels!

Im still pretty scared about the whole thing but hoping everything will work out will post again with my experiences so hopefully other skyline nuts can get a fair go

CU

yer my parents wanted to get a car that hadn't been registered by a previous owner here in aus, so the caryard was the only owners of it, to save the fear of 3rd hand cars etc, so thats why we got it from the dealer, bit more expensive than private and got a couple extra's but yer, as beeing my 1st car i was bit freaked with the whole thing and when a few problems appeared i was panicing but fixed them up and now i couldnt be happier

cheers...

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yep thats exactly the same with me, if i took bit more time with it i could've really looked into a fair few others but since my 1st car bein excited as i was, it ended up like this but nether the less its all good now so...just a lesson that i learnt..

cheers...

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i had a dodgy experience buying from a car yard which specialised in newly imported cars - got the car checked by an independent motor checker who did a really thorough job and i was happy with the condition it was in - it was a great price for what it was cos it had slight accident damage and been repaired - i was happy with that too...

the main problem was the warranty - i bought a 3 year gold warranty for $500 from them to cover 'everything' (all the stuff u can cover with a warranty neway) and i asked them all about this warranty, they said u dont have to service it more often that normal, etc etc etc... we're giving u a good deal on this warranty blah blah

so i paid em $460 i think for it instead of $899 - they said that was their dealer price.. and when i got the car it had the wrong warranty book with it - they said 'we ran out' - so i called up the warranty company to check it out and it'd been put through as a $150 bronze/crap warranty for 1 year!!.... i called the dealer, got the runaround and eventually gave up

the one up i had on him was that he'd sold me a 5 speed auto thinking it was a 4 speed auto!!! hahahahahah

so he can s&ck my d%ck and go to hell...

but i agree people like that should be shot btw :(

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