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My DR30 has 160,000 on the clock and I'm pretty sure its been wound back because thats incredibly low for a 20 year old car... but it does feel resonably tight still, carpets arent stuffed, pedals are ok, engine feels ok and still goes pretty well (apart from the rings probably needing to be done)

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Just checked, Mine has 166,000km on it now, but I've been doing 400/500km a week for the last 3 months, and it has a engine flush sticker on the radiator with a printed 200_ with an imprint from a '2' on the _ then imprint of 11 18 and at km it has 152,000... so if it had a flush at 152,000km in November 2002 the 166,000 has a chance of being real? Because it was imported late last year

there was a section writen up in the DRIVE newspaper section about odo tampering and apparently there is a mob in New Zealand that can check digital speedo cars and tell if it is accurate because there is about 5 places in a cars electrical system that stores the odo information apart from the odo

at the end of the article they were saying that they were in the process of coming into the australian market for grey imports.

there was a section writen up in the DRIVE newspaper section about odo tampering and apparently there is a mob in New Zealand that can check digital speedo cars and tell if it is accurate because there is about 5 places in a cars electrical system that stores the odo information apart from the odo

at the end of the article they were saying that they were in the process of coming into the australian market for grey imports.

yeah I got in contact with these guys, they should be up and running here within 3 months. The idea was to get a group buy going for skyliners :rolleyes:

Why does the odo reading such a big fuss for you? I mean, a car with 100k clicks on it really diss you hey? I'd rather look for a straight car with minimal (or no) mechanical fault then be contempt with it.

Another thing you might be able to spot whether the car has been winded back - look around the car for oil change or mechanical repairs related labels. Japs loves them..and look on the rocker cover (or usually on the cam belt cover bit) if the car has changed the timing belt, chances are there should be a sticker and if there's a rectangle mark on it..chances are the timing belt has been replaced before AND it's probably be closer to the 100k clicks on the odo even if the odo says way less than that.

Seriously man i cant believe you expect tp find a 6 year old car with 25,000Kms on it... Low kilometre, never used dealership condition imports dont exist, if you want this kind of a car than you have to accept that theres a good chance somthing will go wrong and you will have to do some work!

Whats wrong with buying a fecked R34, body straight but engine on its way out and rebuilding it? Youd have a brand new engine then wouldnt you!

Either way good luck dude!

Um ... this is to Jam*353 and dairyboy:

IF you read my post carefully, I didnt EXPECT anything, and that includes unrealistic expectations such has a 6 year old car with less than 60,000 kms on it. I even quoted Merli's post on this area.

All I wanted to do was to engage a discussion on what people thought about the fact that potentially a lot of their imports Odometer's had been played with.

Mate, you want to buy a car that has had its clock wound back, had parts changed out of it for dodgy ones, etc etc, fine you do that. You have your standards, I have mine. I cant belive you are having a go at me just because I wanted to get people's opinion on something. Far out I thought that's what a freakin forum was for.

I bought 2 GTS4 r32s in NZ in april 99, they were both 1990 models, 1 had 107000, the other 110,000 kms. They both ran ok and had straight bodies, I've always bought cars on the basis of the body first, it has to be straight. AS long as its straight use the doubtfulness of the kms as leverage when you are buying the car, say you not paying the sticker price and walk out if they dont play ball.

Skylines will do a lot of kms, a 120,000 km example isprob better than an 80000km one as it will have had new cambelt etc. I have a friend with 260,000 on it and its still on original motor, got another auto in the last couple of weeks.

-as per dairy dude.

A telltale sign of odometer tampering is when the silver cambelt sticker on the cambelt cover is missing along with the numbers being out of alignment on the odometer.

The dealers usually clean the cover and spray all that silicon crap on it to make it look like new. If the sticker is missing you can be fairly sure the belt has been changed and the car has done close to 100,000kms. mine still had the stickers, one had no writing on it, the other had 72000 on it.

I have seen cars in yards in NZ with the stickers still on it and the dealer has forgotten to change them - one had more than a 100,000km discrepancy.

I agree you can not expect the norm to be low km cars, it is the exception just as it is here. Maybe gtrs dont clock up the kms as much as the cheaper skylines because they are more collectable but they are cars that get bought by people who like driving- not parking. otherwise they'd buy a pulsar or something.

my 2 cents

Stephen

Ferris Buhler stuff :D

petrol in the UK cost more........so does parking.......petrol.......public transport is cheaper...... and 2nd hand cars have less k's on them then aussie ones do.........not allways, but generally if you were to look at 100 say.

i'd think Japan would have a similar situation...............

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