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Hey fellas,

In looking at some Skylines, I've seen some R33s around the 70-80,000km mark. They look good enough, but I'm worried that within 1.5-2yrs it would be over the 100,000km mark.

Can one expect significant deterioration in the durables at that stage? For example, if you bought a genuine 50,000km R33, you might only have to replace the durables once or twice in the period you own the car. For a car with more, you might be doing it three or four times.

Just wondering what the maintainence cost implications are because I've been targetting the 40-60,000km mark but I would definitely be opening a few doors if I looked a bit higher..

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Originally posted by Timmy G

Hey fellas

Is it ok if girls reply? :lol: :)

I would look higher. As you would know, the under 50,000km cars usually sell for a premium price at the auctions....and you can really get more of a bargain if you are willing to be more flexible in this regard.

Look more at the condition, rather than the kms.

As for maintenance, i bought mine with 88,000kms on it and it now has 126,000kms and I haven't had anything go wrong - i've only had to pay for normal servicing costs.

yes it had fairly high kays when i bought it...but it was a grade 4, stock standard car, which is more what I looked at, rather than the kms :)

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Originally posted by Timmy G

Yeah sorry I should have said "Hey ladies.. hey fellas" and done a funky Usher dance.

Wow that is really sweet, nothing more than the normal servicing costs.  I hope I'm that lucky, that is really sweet.

Wow Usher, i love him , his so freeqin good,

ANyways, anytime u want Timmy u can gimme a call 95 r33 fs :)

in sydney to :)

51,000kms

DOnnie

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