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when i complied my own car. I had most of the mods taken out and returned to stock. My mods are returned to me in the end. Nobody tell me that. I saw it myself with my own eyes. Unless you got ripped by your compliance shop.

Even if they take out your Xenons during compliance, you'll get the original back anyway. Either keep the original or just sell it.

I think what Prank said is totally true, we shouldn't have the names of the company involved at all. It's a matter of privacy rights. I'm sure most of the people on SAU forums are pretty much aware of that issue. I'm sure the importer and buyer will solve the problem smoothly.

Shipping date as in the date when the ship leaves Japan or arrive in Australia? So far due to the recent Customs system crisis, i have been forced to wait for my customer's car which is in the wharfs for weeks.

I think you might want to pop by one of the wreckers in Dandenong area and buy yourself the climate control. I'm not sure if you can take out the buttons that easily.

basically it all depends on when the car leaves japan. Trust me, there are lots of work to be done on their side. Eg, de-registering the car, queue to board the RORO ship. Journey will take up 2 weeks to Australian ports. Compliance will depend on how fast and how much work the workshop has. The mechanic can tell you it will be done in 2 weeks and suddenly he rings you up informing you that there are problems here and there. From my past experiences, expect the car to be on the road after 2 months from the day you purchased the car.

Not too sure about WA but here in Sydney, Ultimate is still available. If it's not, i'm sure it will be headlines on the newspapers.

A mechanical inspection before you buy the car is a MUST. When i import cars for my customers, i usually ask for the cars to be tested in Japan even before they get shipped here. I will only ship the car over if i am assured that the car will be problem free. R32s are pretty old cars, so you can expect them to be free from the normal wear and tear. The RB20DET engine runs well even if it's done 200,000kms from my past experiences. If i'm not wrong they do have a side mount intercooler? can anyone confirm this with me?

Nice straight car you have there. How much are you willing to part the seats for may i ask? James, glad you have the loan approved now to buy the car.

Actually, go to Paul's website. He has quite a fair bit of info about R33s and pictures as well. Very useful website i must say. http://members.dodo.com.au/paul/

Guys, try going to Oilworld down at Moorabin area just off Keys Road in Victoria. They give discount to SAU members. If you're lucky, the manager might come to you and explain all about the redline oil and how good it is Get's boring after a while

Active LSDs are just options, i doubt every car has it. Not sure about 98 series 2 though.

Totally agree with you there. I doubt it is a 1997 model as there is no passenger airbag. Don't think we are allowed to say this on a For Sale ad but can one of the forum mods confirm with the seller?

The number of spokes/screws/ whatever you call it on the wheels should tell that it's a non turbo. GTSTs have 5 instead of 4 as shown on the pics i reckon? Location?

I wonder how much will it cost to repair the thing. Pretty sure he needs brand new seats and dash. At least the engine is fine

Mate, give them a certain time to finish complying your car. Let them know if they fail to finish by then, you will have every right to lodge a complaint to consumer affairs. Keep this number 1300 558 181. By all means if you want, tell the rest of the guys where's the shop and its details please.

No they won't do that. The AGREED VALUE is the value you have already agreed with the insurance company when u signed up for the policy. It doesn't matter what the price of the car you bought it for, as long as it is around the same range as the agreed value, you should be fine. A friend of mine wrote off his S15 a while ago. He put an agreed value of $32,000 with JustCar, the price of the S15 was only about $29,000. He got back $32,000 minus the premium of his policy.

The ball park varies alot, depending on who you import the car from. I've talked to my agent in Japan, actually the prices do vary but not for Skylines as they are highly popular among the japanese.

Mate, i don't think you should carry on with this deal. If you still want to go ahead, get down all his particulars and get a copy of a photo ID from him as well.

You should have brought this up to consumer affairs or something. Compliancing definitely takes shorter than that. Did you made sure they didn't bring your car out for a drive or something?

How fast were you turning?

If you want to buy a car there, make sure you have the money in hand before offering him a price as the owner there doesn't listen to you at all unless you show them the dough. Once he knows you don't have the money, he'll just head back into his office and laze around. 31,000kms on a 98 R33 MIGHT be believable, but 31k on a 96 skyline is BS.

Vic rego actually cost $540 right now a year Why don't you just leave the car registered as an SA car? One of my friends has a QLD registered car here and driving it with not much problems.

Try looking on Ebay guys. I think they are quite a few lately.

Exactly what i thought. 1996 SERIES 1? Never knew Nissan came out with series 1 in 1996, unless i'm absolutely wrong. The reason being, i have just imported a car, it is built 02/96 and it is a series 2 with all the series 2 front and rear spoiler. AND I did BOTHER to read the post clearly, in fact, 3 times.