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The chances of a good buy these days are rare but it does happen,

It is more a bit of info for those people new to importing that these cars are not all bargins and that cars sales men are not always honest.

People in the forums can do with a bit of help when it comes from learning from other peoples dramas when importing cars from Japan and what you see isnt always what you get.

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Best thing to do is ask for an auction report from when the vehicle was bought, and see what happens then.  

They can make ones up even then, they are car sales men.

Sorry i wouldnt wipe my arse with those reports.......

Sorry i wouldnt wipe my arse with those reports.......

Yes that is as true as you can get, I would like them to show the origional auction report so you would see that big R or A, no grade 4 cars here.

Why else do all the cars have accident history if they are grade 4 cars, if they were that good an auction report dont you think they would scan them and post them as well.

People need to sit back and think before they just leap in.

actually i meant i wouldnt wipe my arse  ALL reports.....even the legit ones......

Would you buy a $60,000 car from the trading post with a photo sent to you from a phone, I cant see a difference with buying off an auction report and not inspecting the car.

I wouldnt touch a car in Japan unless one of 2 people I personaly know can inspect the car and find problems I wouldnt pick.

I have had a go on 15 cars this week and havent picked one up with most due to inspection (best one was a grade 4 car with rust hole in the boot).

One that was clean as, a manual 1993 50,000 klm GTS-t with an RB20DET that sold for 820,000 FOB, nerarly as much as a average 92 GTR.

Would you buy a $60,000 car from the trading post with a photo sent to you from a phone, I cant see a difference with buying off an auction report and not inspecting the car.

I wouldnt touch a car in Japan unless one of 2 people I personaly know can inspect the car and find problems I wouldnt pick.

I have had a go on 15 cars this week and havent picked one up with most due to inspection (best one was a grade 4 car with rust hole in the boot).

One that was clean as, a manual 1993 50,000 klm GTS-t with an RB20DET that sold for 820,000 FOB, nerarly as much as a average 92 GTR.

If the car becomes dodgy cant you sue geoff or seller?

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If the car becomes dodgy cant you sue geoff or seller?

How do they know you havent mistreated the car - eg tracking the car at redline for a weekend ?

They cant be held accountable for the vehicle in your possesion..

Look at Demons story on the forced induction forum I think it was.

If the car becomes dodgy cant you sue geoff or seller?

You cant do much to somebody in another country and the Broker isnt held responsible read this below from a email I was sent.

Ask any one if they have sued their broker and won, wont be many people responding.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...498#post1256498

A trained monkey can buy you a car from stock posted up at sites like www.japanautodirect.com/  and these guys even advertise in Unique Cars so its no secret.

Look at this link, that set of roller doors are in a lot of photos that you see on emails that are spamed out.

www.japanautodirect.com/auto.specsheet.cfm?id=245

there is actually TWO different cars in that photo...look at the photo at the end it has a monster tacho where as the shots of the interior show no monstor tacho...hard to believe people when their pictures are not truthful...

Seeing as this thread's been ressurected, check this out http://www.prestigemotorsport.com.au/au/st...sp?StockID=3061 RZ TT supra for 21k....lots of mods but....ahh man I can't help thinking if it's too good to be true it prolly is. In Aust you wouldn't even get a non-turbo Supra for much less than this, let alone a RZ with HKS stuff all over it.

You always have to take these cars with a grain of salt. I bought my 1989 GTS-T through Prestige (which is spending its first ever night at home now that compliancing is complete), and that was advertised as "no accident history." However, when the side intrusion bars were being installed, lo and behold, the rear right door had an intrusion bar already present, indicating the door had been replaced with a post 91 model (which had intrusion bars). So it did have accident history after all, albiet minor...

Having said that, the car is absolutely mint and i would still recommend Prestige to anyone looking to import.

My car is this one by the way:

http://www.prestigemotorsport.com.au/au/st...sp?StockID=2831

Bargain if i may say so myself!

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