Help With Info On Car Dealers And Dereg Papers

[Skyline2014]

Hi All,

Need your help with this one. I am looking to buy a Slyline 370 SP and have shortlisted a couple of cars with Jap Auto World & Nagoya Motors(Have a time & finance constraint, hence can't import). My questions are:

• Has anyone had any good / bad experiences with any of the above dealers.
• One of them has sent me the Dereg papers for the car. Can you please let me know if there is anything obviously wrong with this.
• I am planning to get an NRMA inspection done on the car I select. Anything else I should be doing?

Thanks

[Lakes101]

I got my stagea from nagoya motors and have had no problems with them I found Alexi to be very helpful even got different tyres put on the car for me as the ones on the car were a brand I wasn't familiar with at not cost haven't had any issues with then even after the car died after shopping one day as the battery was old he sorted towing and a replacement battery very helpful I will highly recommend them. Happy shopping mate.

[PN-Mad]

Doesn't look like a dereg Certs, but an export cert, simply posting the details I'd the car as it was shipped.

A dereg will state two different dates and the recorded mileage at the points.

Why not use one of the jap history check companies to find the auction papers and Certs, it's a small price to pay for the investment of a car.

[dodgyimports]

That export certificate says the car had travelled 38,200 in March of 2011. What's on the odo now?

[Skyline2014]

Thanks for the quick replies. Car has done arnd 42000 km.

[Skyline2014]

@ PN-mad - do you know of any websites where I can get the auction papers from?

[dodgyimports]

So, the car was travelling 12,733kms per year on average for the first 3 years of it's life. According to RAWS that car was imported in April 2013 (http://raws.infrastructure.gov.au/rawswebpublic/RAWPubVehSearch.asp), implying it spent at least another two years in Japan after March 2011.

The dealer is asking you to believe that in those two years, the car suddenly only travelled 3,800kms.

Did you try asking the dealer for the auction papers?

Edited July 15, 2014 by dodgyimports

[Nightcrawler]

Don't bother with an NRMA check - generally RAA/NRMA are freaking useless with imports. Take it to your nearest import specialist/workshop and get them to look it over.

And as dodgy said above, get the auction papers. Something sounds fishy. Don't trust a car salesman as far as you can kick them. And don't believe them about any implied or specific warranty - they are not worth the paper they are printed on.