R34 Gtr's On The Market 4sale

[DR-JEKL]

I'm currently looking into selling my car (have a few people looking at it this week) and I wish to purchase an R34 GTR V spec for $45-50K.

Since a lot of the SAU forum members know a few R34 GTR owners it would be appreciated if you could give me a heads up on the history of any of the following cars or if you know of a clean R34 GTR 4sale within my specified price range.

At this stage I would like a white, silver or black. Purple red or yellow doesn't really do it for me although bayside blue I'm still undecided on.

Preferably it would have a few tasty mods such as rims coilovers turbo upgrade exhaust nismo cluster rims etc but nothing too wild.

Here is what I have found so far on carsales:

Black R34 VS2 with a heap of tasty mods VSPEC2 plates (previously MAD-GTR) $49k

Nice white VS1 with a stock look engine bay putting out 311atwkw THE GTR plates $49k

Bayside blue VS1 with lots of mods in QLD rays rims 320kwatw $49K

So has anyone looked at any of these cars in person or know of the history of these cars above?

If anyone knows of a clean VSpec plz let me know

Any comments advice would be appreciated!

Cheers

[KR4-GTR]

I was recently considering buying the black r34 gtr with the vspec2 plates - but decided to scrap the whole idea and keep my current ride instead!

K's on that one from memory are a bit high compared to others i was looking at, but may have a better chance of being legit? Other than that - seems a good buy!?

Edited August 18, 2009 by KR4-GTR

[GoldZilla]

I think VSPEC2 was used as a daily by the previous owner (i.e. when it was still MAD-GTR) hence the high-ish kays, but it was always serviced and well taken care of as far as I know.

[DR-JEKL]

The current seller of VSPEC2 states that the car has been serviced every 5k kays on the carsales ad.

The more I research the more I realise that 100k kays for a 99-01 GTR is pretty normal.

75% of the R34 GTR's in japan for sale are around 6-70k kays, whereas here in Australia 75% of the R34's for sale are around 3-40k kays (no doubt with modified clusters or nismo dials added etc)

Does anyone have any pics of this car other then what is listed on carsales?

All the old previous threads have broken links and no pics of the engine bay..

Edited August 18, 2009 by DR-JEKL

[Whoneedstherapy]

watch out for some of the cheap dealer cars going around. I've looked at a fair few and although they are cosmetically very nice, looking underneath them shows up flaws and sub standard repair work.

[QUICKY]

ive had a look at v-spec2 and honestly it seemed pretty rough to me (front bumper didnt line up perfectly, neither did the rear as well as some other things). hence why, even though its the cheapest vspec2 by far, its still hasnt sold. So, if ur interested in that one i suggest you get it inspected thoroughly.

all the best

[DR-JEKL]

ive had a look at v-spec2 and honestly it seemed pretty rough to me (front bumper didnt line up perfectly, neither did the rear as well as some other things). hence why, even though its the cheapest vspec2 by far, its still hasnt sold. So, if ur interested in that one i suggest you get it inspected thoroughly.

all the best

Thanks for that. The owner mentioned it had a cracked bonnet, cigarette burn mark in seat, but nothing about the bumpers...

Could it just be the front bar hasnt been put back on properly when the car had the turbos put in etc?

What other faults did you find with it?

[DR-JEKL]

watch out for some of the cheap dealer cars going around. I've looked at a fair few and although they are cosmetically very nice, looking underneath them shows up flaws and sub standard repair work.

Dealer cars as in edward lees performance centre, or dealer cars as in importers etc?

What did you find underneath that didnt look so good?

[Whoneedstherapy]

Dealer cars as in edward lees performance centre, or dealer cars as in importers etc?

What did you find underneath that didnt look so good?

I'd prefer not to name them to be honest.

very rough underbodies, some rust, obvious accident repairs etc. I had one place tell me it was a grade 5 car yet the tail light fit wasn't consistent, the paint was slightly different colours and there was rust in the top of the rear wheel well on that side.

I'm not in any way shape or form looking to tar all with the one brush, i might have just looked at a couple of bad cars. It has however put me off stretching the budget to buy a dodgy 34.

[QUICKY]

well my biggest concern was the fact the bootlid and rear light didnt line up properly. the car seems to have had a hard life in my opinion.

also think bout it, this car has been on the market for that price for a while and is a Vspec11 and has very tasteful mods, yet noone has purchased it.

you could be right and it could be something as simple as not being put back on properly, but then again why were they taken off in the first place? and also you willing to bet 49k on that? all im saying is get the car thoroughly looked over by a panelbeater/mechanic.