Ethan R34

Let me know what you guys think of my R34 N/A, i bought this car completely stock right down to the head unit

Hope you guys like it! Please give me your feed back on my car? i bought this car 100% stock right down to the head unit lol

Bump! Thanks for all the advice and tips guys, they panel was really messed up it had creases and crinkles all over i honestly didnt see any chance of it getting back to normal aha. And i understand that with dealerships and retail things get held up and can take time to arrive especially for something so big and from such a great distance but i just didnt understand why i was getting stuffed around so much? it just felt like they couldnt give a crap about my needs and they were just letting things slide. NOW I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY!! Last week i recieved a phone call that the part arrived at the smash repairs!! You could only imaging how happy i am to know for sure im getting my car fixed and back on the road! I spoke with the Smash repairs today and they said the new door sill has been fitted and reprayed and is looking absolutly mint! all that needs to be done now is the gtr bar fitted properly and then once everything is lined up it will be painted and im expecting it back on WEDNESDAY 1st FEB! Ill be posting up some pictures of the finished job when the car is back for you guys to give me your honest opinion! And once again guys thanks for everything i cant wait to be back on the road driving my pride and joy and please keep me posted of the next SAU meet or cruise in sydney because ill deffs be there!!!

Thanks guys i really appreciate all the support im sure some of you guys have had to wait patiently for a part or mod, it just gets to the point where you wanna give up and sell the bloody thing but i just cant bring myself to doing it. cuz at the end of the day im a skyline enthusiast and thats why i on this forum. Thanks for making me welcome man!

Hey Everyone, im new to SAU But i have had my car for just over a year now so i thought it was time to join! I have always loved skylines since i can remember, just everything about them i love. they are just my vision of the pefect car. in mid 2010 i bought my first car a R34 N/A (Regardless of the power output or any other disputes people may have its what iv always wanted and nothing could change my mind) i bought it 2 months before i got my Learners License and loved every bit about it. im currently on my red P's, soon to be greens. an i have not had my car since September 2011 I was driving home from work on a saturday, I just shown a property in the hawkesbury area where i work (Im in Real-estate) and i must admit i chopped it a little through the roads out near the turf farms. and i came around a right turn bend wasnt breaking the speed limit or anything and a dog ran out of some guys property in front of my car and first reaction was to swerve.. biggest mistake! i jumped on the breaks as i swerved the car kept sliding all the way off the road into a little grass ditch. the front on the car mounted the inbankment and was stuck. Anyway long story short the dogs owner helped my get the car back on the road still started and drove fine. but when i saw the damage i knew it wasnt an easy fix. i got the car towed back to my house where i later went over the car to see the damage. Front bumper was stressed and cracked and pretty well stuffed, all rims were fine, and the raidiator had a hole right through it from where the A/c cooling fan penetrated through. but the worse part was my Right hand Door sill, it was bent up into a V shape lucky the door and everything was undamaged but i knew the Side panel was not gonna buff out aha. The car was later taken to Dural Prestige Smash Repairs after i droped a new performace radiator and cooling fan in, it got quoted up and i had a good chat with the owner. very nice guy and very helpful. he said it was totaly repairable it would need a new front bar (which i already ordered off ebay, it a GTR style front bar) and the bottom door sill cut out and a new one fitted and sprayed. the next day he got the quote from nissan and told me the costs. because out mate refered me to him he done his best to reduce costs. i was quoted all up for the new off side, side panel. sprayed and fitted as well as the front bar i bought sprayed and fitted $2000. but the part had to be ordered from japan direct.. this is when it all went wrong. The part was ordered the next day and said it can take 6-8 weeks from order, i was pretty devo but i guess i just had to wait. i called roughly 10 weeks later and asked if the part had arrived yet, frank from the smash repairs told me it hasnt arrived yet mate but he will keep in contact of any news. so i waited and waited, i got a call back from the smash repairs and he told my he spoke to nissan and they said it got held up and should arrive few days after christmas. so yet i kept my hopes up and waited some more. it never arrived. i decided to take it into my own hands and ring nissan first had with the shipping number and find out where the hell it is. and they told me it is still in transit and should be hear with in a week. so same old story of playing the waiting game. A week later i still have not heard a thing! at this point im on the edge so i ring nissan again. this time i spoke to a manager about this situation, and he said he will look further into and find out a presise date of arrival and get back to me the next day. 9:30 the next morning i get a call from nissan the manager i had spoken with. he told me it got held up longer then they thought and is on its way now and will arrive wednesday the next week and take about 9 days to clear customs and to arrive at hornsby nissan where it was ordered. it sounded promising. i waited again and rang the folowing thursday to double check that the part had arrived in Aus. The manager started getting firm with me saying the car wasnt imported through nissan so its not thier promblem and you will just have to wait. I then rang the smash repairs and told frank what nissan had told me. he was furious and decided to ring nissan himself, He told me regardless if the car was imported through them or not its still a NISSAN and they surply the parts!. he later rang another guy from nissan and told him the story and asked for him to help him. so he said he will ring frank back with any news. nissan rang him back and told him it is 100% arriving Monday 16th or Tues 17th Jan. so i prayed and hoped for the part to have arrived, i rang nissan on the tuesday to ask if the ship arrived... I nearly lost my shit altogether when i was told the folowing.. "The part was only shipped out on the 5th of Decmber and will take another 6-8 weeks and to stop calling, they would call me when it arrives." No joke at this point it all felt hopeless and nearly made me wanna punch someone, The Part was ordered in october 2011 for christ sake! they blantly lied and lied to me! Nissan were no help what so ever! Why do imports have to be so difficult!? I miss driving my car so much and its killing me to be driving a holden astra -_- Im left with no other option then to put in a good condition second hand side panel, i managed to source from a place called "Sydney Auto Dismantlers" it will be marked out by the smash repairers and cut out professionally by the dismantlers and i just pray to god that it looks half decent once welded in and reprayed to match my car, im really uncurtain about the final job of this will be and i heard there will be rust issues in couple years to come is this true and what are all your thoughts on my situation?. Nissan still want to charge me for a part they so called "Ordered" for me, should this be disputed or not guys?