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Good point. Will keep it to updates from now on ;-) Next update will be monday arvo!

If you ask the dealer, "Do you get many import cars in that have their Odo's wound back?" They will obviously reply back "Yes we do" "Have you sold these vehicles? Do you have a system to find out if they have been wound back? Do you notify your customers that the km's probably arn't genuine? Do you sometimes suspect some imported cars have been wound back, but do nothing about it?"

If they have any doubt that the clock may have been wound back, and then sold it knowing that and advertising it as less Km's, AND considering their job is to import japanese cars which alot have been wound back, they should know of the problem and look out for it, OR notify the buyers that it may have been wound back. Otherwise if I was a house salesman and sold you a house that i said was made after the 1990's, while really it was made in the 1960's and has Asbestos in it lol. In skyline talk it has problems related to being used much more... This is the argument that i see playing out anyway. I don't care if nothing comes out of it, atleast i gave it a shot rather than thiking nah its too bigger a deal and i couldn't be bothered.

I know my chances are slim but i think its worth a try. PS: Motor Car Traders Act 1986 - SECT 38 (4) A person must not, in the course of selling or exchanging a motor car, falsely represent the accuracy of an odometer reading of the car. The Motor Dealers Act (The Act) makes it illegal to interfere with an odometer. It states that the following actions are deemed to be interference: * altering the reading of the odometer * removing or replacing the odometer * rendering the odometer inoperative or inaccurate by any means whatsoever * fitting a device capable of rendering the odometer inoperative or inaccurate. A dealer is also prohibited from advertising or specifying that the reading of an odometer is accurate if the dealer knows or has reasonable cause to know that this is not the case.

I had the gearbox pulled apart a couple of times, ahd the syncros done, oil, bits of metal removed etc. Sometimes it won't go into gear (even when warmed up) and creaks when using the clutch. Taking it to Trojan sometime soon for them to have a look. just hard as im southside, got uni and work etc...

Thats got one massive but! lots of boot space by the looks of it ;-) Very nice mate. Is that 3 cars in a few months now lol ;-)

Booked in for monday at Gas Tune in tuggers. They said they can check the odometer for just under 50 bucks. They said they can't provide a legal document but i guess once i know if it has been altered then i can go further and find someone who can provide a document saying that it has been wound back etc.

yea mines the daily driver for uni and work so i done that in 1.5 years i'd say

The only thing that might prevent this from getting anywhere is that I have driven just over 20,000km's since I bought it.

If yours were straight before then its all good I'd say, its only because they are not made to be wound back, so it always leaves them misaligned, unless the guys spends alot of time winding it back till they all sit straight (which could take a very long time and could wind it back all the way lol)

Except the front lights of the series two look ancient, the series 2 coupe lights are way better. The front bar is the same from series 2 coupe vs sedan, just the front lights are way different. Series 2 coupe looks sweet, while the series 2 sedan lights look faded and old. The series 1 lights looks much nicer. I admit that the series 2 front bar makes it look alot meaner but don't like the rear lights. Otherwise they are exactly the same. I would go series two now as pre 1995 is sounding very old now. Wouldn't mind a 1997-98 series 2 sedan ;-)

Sorry about the odometer, My mates is at 97,XXXkm's, and his lines up perfectly. So should everyone elses, once they last dial on the right ticks from 9 to 0, the rest tick over, they don't gently roll. Myne is pretty bad, at 97,967km's, the first 7 is hanging down, the 6 is only half visible and the others are not perfectly straight. Also I just picked up the lastest high performance imports which has a special on buying skylines, and guess what, has the same conclusion about odometers being straight.....

For now I won't say who I got it through untill I know for sure if it has been tampered with etc. And then ill also write back how they dealt with it etc. I'm calling a few places today to see if they know where I can get it checked out. Thanks for the help guys

I don't really mind if its done something like 120,000km's, i would expect them to pay for the repairs to the gearbox and i would be happy. But if the car has done way more i think i'd deserve abit more.

Sweet thanks, will give em a call. Yea I saw the 100,000km sticker on myne and i asked the importers and they said that it didn't mean anything. Im just angry cos i trusted them after i said all the stuff has been going wrong etc. They said it was nothing to worry about etc. Im willing to go lawyers and that cos I think this is something fair trading would be interested in. Considering it is illegal if the dealer sells me a car knowing that it has been wound back. And if they have any knowledge in importing then they would have known.....

condition is good, but just feels like its way older than what it is. Feels like its done way over 150,000km's. the amount of little things gone wrong and the fact the gearbox is rooted is abit weird, people i know have had their standard gearbox with extra power put through it and had no troubles beyone 200,000kms. And myne needs replacing at a supposidly 99,000km's...... I just think its wrong to do this, and I at least want to try to do something about it, as I am in a hole now of which i will prob have to sell the skyline as there may be more problems with it. And i don't want to give the skyline up. I don't think I should have to when it isn't my fault. Someone along the line has lied and broken the law to get some extra cash... I think its fair enough they should at least be investigated..... Anyway does anyone know where I could take it? Im going to call NRMA to see if they know tomorrow. Ill also call my mechanic but i simply just wanted to know if you guys no where I could take it (in canberra)

i guess i just wanna know if it has been tampered with first of all, then have a crack at someone to see if I can get some sort of help ;-)

Well in the end i have a feeling there is abit to do, as the importer has many liscences of which can be taken away for them for selling me a vehicle which they said had done a genuine 76,000km's. And also since the car was purchased from a dealer in japan, and knowing how illegal it is to wind back cars up there, i'm sure they also have some money to loose if i bitch about it. I have to replace my gearbox shortly and ontop of all the other crap i bought, i dont' want to spend it as the car was sold to me on the premise that it is very "new and wouldn't need anything done to it". i know it is an old car ladida bla bla, but in the end I bought the car under false pretexts told to me by the importer. Its their job to find the car that i want, and make sure it all works out... Most of the auction cars from japan are put through strict investigations to make sure the cars do have true ODO readings, if they don't they can't be sold through auction.

I have a feeling my odo has been tampered. Not by the importers but by the dealer in japan. I got it with 76,000k'm's on the clock, replace the clutch straight after, the rear shocks soon after that, and now at 99,000km's im having big gearbox problems (note that my car has only a new exhaust fitted by the importers) After looking into alot of my interior was worn out in weird ways for a 76,000km car, especially the leather on the gearstick boot, knob and steering wheel. After some more research i foun dthat if your odo numbers don't corectly line up straight, then it has been tampered with. So all this makes me to belive that it has been tampered with. Now my question.....Who could i take it to to get it inspected and a written document confirming it has been tampered with?(if it has been ;-) )

I'm in, finally have some spare time and spare cash. Yay for me! Hopefully my skyline can put out something that resembles original kw ;-) and not less :-(

Yea thats abit less that what I paid for a windscreen supplied and fitted for my 33.

Haha yea finally finished uni for the year neway. I would buy if off you, if only someone would buy myne for 16 grand lol Sucks your selling. Hilux aye? I so wanted to buy a reasonably new hilux and raise it with massive wheels.

Sounds like a jingle for an add. I like it!

Tuesday 11:15pm: Spotted a white r33 s2 coupe in a rush overtaking me on tharwa road then heading into theodore, which was weird cos i wasn't going slow.... Hope you got to your emergency! (2 seconds sooner!) I keep spotting a maroon r33 series one parked in theodore on the main road. Very nice.

Maybe hes getting rid of something else he don't want..... good luck with the sale mate. Real classy skyline. Dark purple looks great.