help on buying a gts25

[liquid85]

Hi, been locking fairly extensively at the skylines for awhile now and are wanting to buy one for my P's. I dont turn 18until dec but do u guys think this its a good idea to get one now with this price

94 Skyline R33 GTS25

fully stock

97000k's

9990 + compliance and insurance

and compliance i believe will be 2000 and insurance 2600

roughly 14600

Can you guys also tell me things i should be looking out for ? and if thats all the cost ?

Thanks, help would be greatly appreciated.

[liquid85]

Why wont anyone give me there opinion, i'm only new to this and it would be a very helpfull if someone did. thanks

And also what security messures should i take?

or is the wrong place to be posting this ?

[ONYX]

18 you say.... how u get insurance, cos its pretty hard to find insurance these days.... especially considering your age, and u have no driving experience im 22 & i had to go undr my dads name as registered driver, still cost me 2400

its got a shit load of ks on it !

my 93 R33 only had ~62,000 don't remember exact

[liquid85]

k thanks, yeah going under my dads name. So do they have problems with them at those sort of k's or what ?

[dAVE]

compliance will be me around 4k these days.. Also on top of that you will need to pay stamp duty ... 4% of total purchase price... so about $450.. + rego of $450.

also, as its on 97k, you will need to change the timing belt in 3000 km, another 400 or so.. so im sure you could get a better deal.

[Guest RedLineGTR]

try and find out that has already been landed in melb..check the for sale section and the trading post...etc...best bets there..

[liquid85]

oh okay, thats a lot of help. How much would a timming belt cost?yeah this one i was looking at has already landed, its in a car yard in dandenong, "power road car sales"

Thanks redline, so you reckon try to find another with less k's or something in the trading post. And they guy told me the compliance would be 2k so if i dont get it now will it be around the 4k in the next few months ?

[liquid85]

hey OYNX is you dont mind me asking, how much did you pay for yours ?

[ONYX]

mine turbo gts25-t was 18k fully complianced & licenced with 3 yr warranty, NOV last year (was going price @ the time)

[ONYX]

plus i'm in perth, prolly pay a bit more here...... that's how it usually is

[liquid85]

sounds good, so should the dealer supply a warranty ?

[ONYX]

yeah dealer supplied warranty

[dojobi]

I would have said a 94 with 100,000km wasn't bad at all. It suggests it hasn't been wound back.

That said, you're coming up to your 100,000km service, which will add to the cost (assuming you plan on doing it). I bought my 93 GTS25t with 99,900 km on it, but it had just had its big service. The one you're looking at may have had this done early. Check up on it.

[JimX]

Are you sure that $9990 price wasn't including all compliancing and shipping costs? $9990 is more than what the GTS-t's get sold for in the auction yards. I'm pretty sure at an auction yard a non turbo would sell for around 300 thousand yen or less, which is only around $4000.

If it's $9990 all-up, then that's a pretty good price. If you need to pay for more stuff on top of that, then find yourself another dealer because he's ripping you off bigtime. A good condition GTS25t will cost around $8000 from the auction yards, so around $15000 or less landed/complied/registered.

[Drivebai]

I picked my car up 94 R33 Stock excpet for Mags and steering wheel.. cost me $17,000 on road.. .. i would rather get a stock car.. also most of the cars out of Japan have had the K's wound back so i'd rather get one that looks like it hasnt been wound back.. usually you can have a general idea by the condition of the car i mean if the steering wheel is worn out and the seats are abit worn and the clock says its only done 30,000Kms thenyou know its a bit dodgy... mine has 114,0000km.. i think thats pretty good.. when you compare them to the Kms on local cars of the same age.

[liquid85]

k thanks alot, thats all really helpfull. I dont know anything about importing one myself or buying it from an auction. so i'll probably just end up getting it from a yard i'll do a bit more looking around now to see what else is for offer. Can anyway give me some good car yards or links to a place :burnout:

[JimX]

If you're not importing it yourself then it doesn't need to be complianced. Unless there is some uber-dodgy dealer there selling uncomplianced cars somehow.