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Mine stalls coming off the accelerator when coming to a stop. If I leave it in gear for about 2 or 3 seconds before stopping though, the wheels will turn the engine over enough to get past this "stall phase" and then it won't stall. I don't think it's the bov, because at such low speeds even the factory bov wouldn't be opening. I just changed my driving habits so that it hardly ever happens. If I have to come to an abrupt halt though (eg, taxi stopping in front of me to pick up passengers) then I'll still usually stall it. The engine otherwise runs like it's brand new.

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I had a similar issue, but mine was combined effort from the BOV and a faulty battery!!!

The battery cable was loose in the bracket and wouldn't charge all the way!! runs OK now though after setting plumb back onto the hybrid BOV and fixing the battery cable!

2fardown Experienced

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gtrken: I could understand a few scratches, but I have never seen an R33 GTS-T in worse condition than this.

I will contact the seller tomorrow. Hopefully the car is sold so they can be honest and fill me in...

Your standards are WAY to high P1E. Your photos show an R33 with a few cracks on the spoiler and a few scratches and come to the conclusion that is "farked"?? You are looking at a 10 year old car!! Of course its going to have a few little cosmetic things that might need attention.

My advice to you would be to start looking at later model skylines, series 2 even and don't even think about importing.

May I ask what cars you have owned previously?

EDIT: You can also clearly see in the pictures of the car in Japan that the front spoiler is in good condition. This proves that the damage was caused in transit or by the new owner. :)

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I'm a little confused...so you mean this vehicle was bought in Japan (by prestige) a few months back, and now u see it in a local dealership? and what you see is crap?

Are you very definite.. there are a crapload of R33 in Japan (even more than australia..lol), and often have a very similar "look". Man you are fussy though.. if you want one that has absolutely not one scratch, one chip in a bar that hangs a few cm off the ground, you will have to pay a couple of $k more (closer to $20k).. and that might get you an immaculate example that will be stock.. otherwise there probably is at most $1500 worth of work that needs to be done to get it to the same standard (going on those photos)

p1e - the 100,000 sticker generally will have written stamp or markings on it if it has in fact had the service, otherwise it just says "service me at 100,000km"

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Your standards are WAY to high P1E.  Your photos show an R33 with a few cracks on the spoiler and a few scratches and come to the conclusion that is "farked"??

My pictures do not do the car justice - it looked a lot worse than my original post depicts. There would have been close to thirty individual, large scratches on the car's body.

If there is a high chance of needing to respray (and buy a new kit for) an imported car, it all of a sudden makes privately importing more expensive than purchasing an imported car locally through a dealer or private sale. Surely this isn't the case. Surely not every car sent from Japan ends up like this. This was the original reason for my post - I was wanting to know what went wrong.

From your responses, I am assuming that some damage was done in transit, and further damage was done by its Australian owner.

However, this still doesn't explain the car being sold as a 1994 model.

Hopefully a lot of this damage was done by the car's Australian owner, or maybe my standards really are too high...

I'll wait and see how zymotic's car arrives.

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I've spoken to Geoff and I think I'll still import through Prestige.

No where do we state that we have sold all vehicles in that section so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Someone else bought that vehicle from our supplier, I think it was a good 6 to 8 months ago now from memory. From what you say it sounds like the same car.  However, we have no way of knowing who bought it or what happened to the car once in Australia.  Anything is possible, and absolutely nothing to do with us.

The car was purchased by one of Geoff's suppliers in Japan and he's now trying to sell it here through a friend.

I'll just be careful what I buy, try to lower my standards a little bit and mayble look for a Series 2 R33 GTS-T.

Soarer Newbie

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I am in the industry and both J-Spec imports www.j-spec.com.au and geoffe at prestigemotorsports.com have reputations because of the way the handle their clients and also to the best of their knowledge help explain what condition the car is in before being imported. In this situation I dont know it well enough to comment, but buyers over in Japan are usually the ones to report to the 'importer' in Australia about the condition of vehicles over their. This informaton is then passed on believing it too be true.. sometimes miscommunications can occur and i guess just take it up with the 'importer.' With that said cars generally should be and are in the condition specified by the 'importer'

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