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Hi all,

I came across this series 3 bcnr33 and thought i would do a quick check with Japanese History Check (JHC). It looked like a very clean car with low kms - 25,000km.

http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Nissan-Skyline-1997/SSE-AD-2501342/?Cr=7&sdmvc=1

When the results came back from JHC the cars vin (blue plate) came out as a 1996 with 63,000kms on it and was brought in to AUS in 2008 with a grade R and never complied.

However the PPSR check came out as a 97 car which was complied in 98.

So here is the confusing part - If the car was complied and registered here in Australia in 1998 how does the japanese history check in Japan have it as export to Aust in 2008 with a different grade?

Any idea?

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It does look like a clean S3, however I am puzzled by the low kms and the V-Spec sticker as that does spell dishonesty.

I think it's becoming hard to put prices on these cars, it's more about what you want to pay for one and less what they're actually "worth" :)

Yeh that's the problem he doesn't have the de registration paper work.

With JHC they provided me with the de registration paperwork for that cars vin and it came out as a 1996 model with 64,000kms and with the grade R and imported to AUS in 2008.

He told me there must be a mistake or some mistype so I checked it over and over again and it is 100% the correct VIN.

So that's what's so confusing, PPRS states though that the car was registered here in AUS in 1998.

Yeh that's the problem he doesn't have the de registration paper work.

With JHC they provided me with the de registration paperwork for that cars vin and it came out as a 1996 model with 64,000kms and with the grade R and imported to AUS in 2008.

He told me there must be a mistake or some mistype so I checked it over and over again and it is 100% the correct VIN.

So that's what's so confusing, PPRS states though that the car was registered here in AUS in 1998.

there is enough rotten fish smell to indicate to stay away from this car mate.

Did you ask JHC to confirm?

It does look very clean, has the appropriate plates for a 1998 registered car, and VicRoads has 1998 as the compliance year if you check their website. The seller also apparently has the rego papers from 1998.

What build year comes up in FAST or a Nissan VIN interpreter?

Edited by BuuBox

Yes I have confirmed it with JHC. I paid to get the deregistration sheet and they did a free check on the auction sheet.

Unfortunately for me they couldn't provide me an auction sheet as it was missing in file but they could provide me the following:

Auction: CAA Tokyo

Lot No: 1282

Date: 02/09/2008

Description: Nissan Skyline GT-R

Type: BCNR33

Chassis No: BCNR33-023136

Transmission: F5

Color: White

Displacement: 2600

Equipment: AAC

Inspection: 2010.04

Year: 1996

Scores: R

Mileage, km: 64,000

You'd really want to know off the auction sheet what "R" (for repaired) really means!

It's not the same car though, unless the Victorian registration in 1998 is an elaborate ruse. The VIN Vicroads has recorded is also the old style import VIN with seemingly random numbers.

It could be a rebirth with that chassis number in Japan, or even an administrative error.

considering the main purchase point of that car appears to be the low km's, i would be asking for the japanese de-registration papers to help prove the km's

Did they exist in 1997/1998?

Edited by BuuBox

It's not the same car though, unless the Victorian registration in 1998 is an elaborate ruse. The VIN Vicroads has recorded is also the old style import VIN with seemingly random numbers.

It could be a rebirth with that chassis number in Japan, or even an administrative error.

Did they exist in 1997/1998?

yes

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