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Guest zerorespect

well this gentlemen is a sad sad day for me.....

as some of you prolly know i've been chasing my boyhood dream of the gtr for quite some time now....

sold my car (after 4 months of dealing with a very frustrating buyer), did all the company paperwork, teed up the gtr through gerald at ice performance and was all set to be in my skyline gtr before christmas...........

then the finance company called me saying they have a problem.....after some recent events they informed me that an extra security deposit (at a little over 30% of the purchase price) would be required for me to attain finance.....my response was no probs - have it tomorrow - and it was then that they told me that the security deposit was a bigger problem because under such circumstances my employer (a large australian company) would not sign off on the novated lease....and that because my employer only allows salary packaged finance through this company i am basically stuffed...........

every1 on my floor at work has been giving me a wide birth for the last week or so because the word is out that i'm an "angry young man" over the incident - all the guys had already ordered and received a few nismo accessories (cap, key ring, tshirt, etc) from japan ready to present to me when i pulled up in the car - they gave them to me anyway and that was a real kick in the guts

anyway - the only way forward now is for me to double my house payments and in 9 - 12 months buy a gr outright against the house - I WILL HAVE ONE!

the one ray of light is the straight-as-an-arrow professionalism of gerald and the other guys at ice performance....we had discussed this type of contingency as a low probability possible outcome and true to his word when i told gerald what was happening he refunded my sizable deposit without a hassle - even though he was out of pocket himself. this has done more for my trust in gerald and the other guys at ice performance than anything i've read about or heard from others in the community - so i have no problems suggesting to any of you that if you want to deal with some straight-up guys then you can be rest assured with ice performance - needless to say when i'm again in the possie to go gtr shopping they'll be my first port of call

anyway, i'm off to try an organise a company car that i'll be on a waiting list of 16 weeks to receive....so till then happy and safe 'lining guys and i'll catch u all around

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sorry to hear about that, tis very sad. I've had quite a few problems with obtaining my R34 GT-T. I too will be getting one of those novated lease thingies, but i'll own the car, it will just be for the running costs. But the place i work at sorta conflicts with the company i want to go thru, but i've been given some options tho.

hope everything works out for u, i'm hoping to get mine in say...6 months, so hopefully we'll be cruising it up with the rest of these 'line guys in 2003.

good luck

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Just don't let ANYONE tell you that it's "not meant to be".

If you really want it then work your date-hole out and get it however you can!!! Finance, cash, sexual-favours, lease, whetever.

Good Luck Man!

Adrian

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That is bad news - sorry to hear it.

I have had several issues with Skylines (having sold my Series II R33 GTST a few months back to help fund a wedding and a house purchase) but i will have my R34 around june july - the wait is killing me!!

my moral;

All good things come to those who wait.

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