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Kinda got my heart on a Stagea - kinda hard to get my 2 yr old in and out of a R33 coupe now, anyways the choice of Stagea suppliers in sydney are limited and the price ranges can differ from 1-10k for something of similar year model and badge.

So where did you get yours and where you happy with your purchase ? Im looking at the M35 in particular.

If you werent happy - why.

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I wasn't happy, too many problems that were never fixed like the gearbox rebuild. Kamikaze then went into receivership lol.

Northshore would be worth the price premium for peace of mind, or so I have heard.

I bought locally, from a private seller - generally pretty happy with the purchase, no major issues with the car (had it for over 1 year now), and the turbo had already been replaced when I bought it.

I got mine through Kristian at Iron Chef Imports, who was awesome to deal with and I would highly recommend. If you are in Sydney, after an M35 and want to test drive, go to Northshore Prestige. I went and had a look there and Ben was fantastic to deal with, really helpful and I have never heard a bad word spoken about Northshore. If I had been after an M35 that's more than likely where I would have gotten one from. If you can'ft find what you want there, or you would prefer a personal import talk to Kristian at Iron Chef.

I flew down to Melbourne, then drove to Camperdown (over two hours west of Melbourne) to get my S1 Dayz edition. There was nothing locally that I was particually after.

It was a wild weekend!

Private sale in the quokka. Guy had spent 12k or something stupid getting a workshop to source and fit Tein coilovers, full exhaust, fmic, bigass highflow turbo, splitfires and a Haltech.

He then got all disillusioned because at the end of the day, it's not a skyline :laugh: I picked it up for 14k with 120,000km on the clock.

Had it about 2 years now, up to 165,000km and still going strong, have upgraded the brakes and put a mild shift kit in. On the cards are bigger injectors and NIStune once I remove the Haltech and fix the bodgy wiring job :/

Best all-rounder ever. It doesn't handle and stop like my 32 but it still does everything pretty damn well for a 1.7t wagon. Hauls ass, carries heaps of shit and gets nearly 600km/tank on country runs. Love it so much that now that times are tough, I'm selling the 32 and not the wagon :)

I got mine through a import car yard, Motovation Imports I think it was, down on the GC. there weren't many options when getting mine, for a series 2 it was either personal import or import car yard. The only ones for private sale were series 1's.

Also out of the 20 or so S2's for sale in the whole of Australia only 1-2 of them were manual and at almost 6-7 grand more than the auto version. M35's were only just starting to show there faces in australia and they were up around $30k from a car yard.

JAPLINK. Honest and good back up. Think if you live in Sydney they will give 12 Months Warranty cover themselves and have a Japanese mechanic who knows his way around these cars.

My ARX was in immaculate condition and was in way better condition than any car I have ever seen with same Ks - so no way it had a haircut.

Had a couple of probs with mine which were all looked after and they paid for the car to be transported to their shop to do repairs themselves (400km!). (Torque convertor rebuilt when failed.)

Got them to do some custom exhaust work - they found a small chip in exhaust turbine while doing the work and replaced the turbo. Could have easily just put it back together as it was not making any different sounds and going like a rocket still. Not sure everyone you deal with would have done this.

Watch out for some "barbers" that have yards nearby -have seen auction sheets showing high kms then on the yard with a short back and sides.

:whistling:

my oppinion, '*********' are a bunch of wankers especially the owner/manager ****............. ive found his cars to be of poor quality.

thats why i bought mine from 'Northshore Prestige Motors', Ben is a great bloke to deal with and their cars are of a higher standard.

Edited By Mods: You CANNOT post negative information on these forums about ANY business - it is against forums rules.

I got mine from an import auto dealer in QLD. My preference was to import one but after months of looking and not finding one that I liked, I started checking out the import dealers and found one that was exactly what I was after.

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my oppinion, '************' are a bunch of wankers especially the owner/manager ****............. ive found his cars to be of poor quality.

thats why i bought mine from 'Northshore Prestige Motors', Ben is a great bloke to deal with and their cars are of a higher standard.

agreed!

to be fair, they had an awesome mechanic there, knew everything and did fantastic work. he left before my car went back to have the gearbox not fixed 4 times.

my uncle imports...so naturally through him! came with declaration papers from jap government n all. very happy.. althought only thing that sucks was i didnt get sunroof... i was the one who looked through the uss auction website. waited 3 months seatching for a 4.5 grade A interior turbo with sunroof... to no avail. settled for a white m35 with aero kit... got over the sunroofs thing!!!

agreed!

to be fair, they had an awesome mechanic there, knew everything and did fantastic work. he left before my car went back to have the gearbox not fixed 4 times.

the story goes like this........

i signed that papers for a 1999 C34 RS4 - padde shift, full leather etc etc about 4years ago................ anyways the car went to go somewhere for a service or whatever (before delivery to me) next thing i know i get a phone call saying the 4wd system had been trashed and was gonna cost like $6000-$7000 so they then didnt want to sell me the car (they also had a battle over who was going to pay for it them or there guy's in japan) anyways long story short they tryed to palm me off a lower spec car for the same deal i told them to go shove it and we cancelled the contract and i got my money back luckily enough.

this time around i went to have a look again, whilst being there the salesman took out a guy in a legnum and funily enough comes back with a broken front CV.

anyways i looked over the NM35 AXIS and wasnt impressed with the overall condition but what got me was this and i quote "you cannot take this car out for a test drive without first putting a deposit on the car" im like u gotta be kidding if u think im gonna put down a deposit to buy the car without first going for a test drive or getting the car checked out. so i told them to go shove it. ** side note the salesman always goes with u for the test drive........................... and personally i cant stand Phil he just seems like a slimebag.

but back to Ben @ NSPM........ i was gobsmacked when Ben through me the keys and said go for a test drive and let me go alone for a strap!!! KUDO's :banana:

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