Value My Cefiro Please

[Nic_A31]

Wats up ladies.

I breifly had my car for sale a while ago, ie 4 hours.

I had a bunch of enquiries and some criticism on the price.

After a rough idea on what the car is worth from you guys.

I'm looking at you:

Huddy

Toffy

Dan

Other regulars on here with pro knowledge/

Here she is.

1989 Nissan (H)A31 Cefiro

80xxx km on chassis

130xxx km on motor

Motor

RB20DET

K&N Pod

RB25 Turbo (10PSI actuator, and a TurboTech Boost Controller making 13-14 PSI)

Unknown brand oil catch can (Not yet fitted)

3" Cat back exhaust

R32 / R33 GT-R Fuel Pump

Driveline

R33 RB20 Gearbox

1 Piece Driveshaft

unknown ratio LSD (3x2 bolt)

(100kmp/h in 5th @ 2300-2400 I.I.R.C.)

Brakes/Suspension

HSD TT Coilovers (8kg front, camber adjustable, 6kg rear)

Cusco Strut Brace (Front)

5 Stud Conversion

R33 GTST Calipers

DBA 4000 series Rotors (Front)

Standard Rotors (Rear)

ABS Removed, BM44 B.M.C

R33 GT-R Rims (17x9 +30)

225/45 Admiral P712 Rotationals (Front)

235/45 Wan-Li Rotationals (Rear) (Cheap shit tyres, grip pretty well in the dry, all over the shop in the wet)

Interior

Factory Fitted Sunroof w/ optional tint/decal

C33 Laurel Dash

(* Wires up properly, fog light switch, clock, etc)

SAAS Mechanical Boost Gauge

R33 GT-R Seats (Late Model, Grey/Red) (Not yet fitted)

External

Series 2 Taillights (damage to driver's side)

Series 2 grille (single opening, matt black finish)

Pending Attention

* Dent, front right guard

I have a pair of vented fibreglass guards that fixes this. Could slap them on and drive around, easy, but their color is slightly different to the car's factory paint (362 Arctic White)

* Dent, driver's side rear door

Replacement door in same color on the way from Japan, ETA 4 weeks from now

* Multiple rust spots, structural and surface

Could probably be fixed, but being my daily I won't bother, to be honest, it's probably not cureable, there's little spots in the engine bay and all over the car, production plate lists factory number four, or five, from memory. I'm convinced it saw some salty conditions in Japan and will never be completely rust free.

Pics of car in various stages

Engine bay has been tidied up ALOT since that pic .....

GT-R Seats

Edited March 13, 2011 by Nic_A31

[Cupcake]

Im gonna be brutally honest as here in qld they go for as little as 6500. id say 8000-10000

[rbcef]

Agreed with the comment above. Up here you'd be looking at $10k absolute max. Good if your looking to buy but sux when trying to sell.

[toffy]

i would've said 10k , it might not be a show car or rb25 but it's also not an old drift hack that's chopped and dodged all over the place with flat rails and tonnes of cable ties/body filler .... and it has a sunroof (i love ceff sunroofs) . It will be harder to sell than a 5k drift hack , not everyone is after one of them though

[Nic_A31]

oh I forgot to post this

OK so around 10k eh? with room to drop for offers.

Cheers guys.

[Mr Eps]

put it this way man...

.mine was a HARD sale and from memory i think it left my hands for 7 grand or 7.5...

pretty sure it was 7...

cefiros are a hard sale. they're a niche market largely filled with people who would otherwise be acting as sandpeople on tatooine..

i'm not going to "Value" it but i'm just saying... put it this way.. i had a verrrrryyyyy long drawn out sale that was posted EVERYWHERE and yeah... mine got 7K or something..

my advice is - only ever sell cefiro if you need the space cleared. don't expect to be able to pull a 2005 jaiK move and sell your car for 18 grand anymore

mind you... my car was originally imported landed complied registered for $6,200 ... so an APPRECIATION of 800 bucks over 6 years is not a bad thing

[Nic_A31]

I got like 3 enquiries even after I stated the car strictly wasn't for sale when it was for sale, how hard can it be to sell it?

[Mr Eps]

cefiro enquiry and cefiro SALE are two very different things.

i had about six people come and "inspect" the car - not because they wanted to buy it... but because they just wanted to "have a look at it"

[dose_it]

Nic. My friend still would seriously like to look at this car. He's not going to track it or drift or street skid etc as he has a s13 for that.

If you still have my contact number shoot me a message when you are ready to sell

[Nic_A31]

I'll keep it in mind for IF and WHEN I decide to sell it.

To be honest....Toffy was right, after all the hard work, blood, sweat, tears, emo fits, financial problems, etc....at the end of the day, it was worth it. Anybody else would've given up long ago and it'd be scrap metal by now, but after all the bullshit it's finally, somehow, quiet a reliable car and the idea of keeping it for a while is staying on my mind.

Even if I pack up in Perth and go join the army I'd consider taking this or both with me, either with me or after I'd settled in.

Edited March 17, 2011 by Nic_A31

[Mr Eps]

Dose it

Is this the same mate of yours that seriously came over to look at mine...

Wadda guy

Nic... It was also ME that said that.... You cunnnnnning fellow

To answer your question properly, this day and age you can't value a cefiro, period.

How do you value a car that there's what.. 20 road reg examples of? Australia wide??

How do you value a car that an owner has spent so much time and money keeping it alive yet at the end of the day.... Is still a 23 year old car?

There is no value on them anymore.. All it comes down to is whether you want to see it gone or not.. Add to that mix someone willing to pay for it...

Then simply meet halfway..

Personally as I said time n time again to you... You aren't ready to sell!!

[dose_it]

Nah Rowan not that guy. He gave up. Bought a 180. He just didn't have the enthusiasm to keep up the search.

This other mate however has the respect for the type of vehicle they are and doesnt want a Cefiro he wants a laurel but I laughed at his face And said good luck can't even find a cef and you want a c33

So he went home.

Cried.

Then ordered pizza.

Googled more laurels.

Cried some more.

Then thought bout moving to nz.

I slapped him. Then he came good and will settle for a Cefiro.

I even tried to sell him mine. "what would I want with a f**king orange unlicensed Cefiro?"

I replied touché

And the search began.

/csb

I miss antilag

[Mr Eps]

hahahahhahahaa god you're a funny bloke...

well... what's stopping him from importing a laurel?

[toffy]

hahahahhahahaa god you're a funny bloke...

well... what's stopping him from importing a laurel?

not such an easy thing to do sadly , but he coul've imported the only one in tas up until a week ago when i bought lots of stuff to make it rb30det

[Nic_A31]

No harder than importing a Cefiro.

1988 model only, since didn't make it onto SEVS. They're just as common as Cefiro's in Japan....built something around 2.5million C33s.....they're not as popular over here, that's due to laziness

Anyway,

Eps, please stop trolling my thread

Keith, please stop feeding the troll in my thread, and do you REALLY miss Antilag? You did say something along teh lines of "next time I go for a pissy drive I hope I hit and kill you" or something....I thought your booting from the community was somewhat mutual ??

[toffy]

except c33 laurel only came out 89 onward , they are approved for sevs but no import compliancer is game enough to buy the licensing to import one

[toffy]

oh I forgot to post this

OK so around 10k eh? with room to drop for offers.

Cheers guys.

how rude *sobs*

[matty28]

this has much more mods than mine & i paid 8 for mine in SA

[erik]

i sould of really looked around before just buying a 33. fml

[toffy]

Does it

Is this the same mate of yours that seriously came over to look at mine...

Wadda guy

Nic... It was also ME that said that.... You cunnnnnning fellow

To answer your question properly, this day and age you can't value a cefiro, period.

How do you value a car that there's what.. 20 road reg examples of? Australia wide??

How do you value a car that an owner has spent so much time and money keeping it alive yet at the end of the day.... Is still a 23 year old car?

There is no value on them anymore.. All it comes down to is whether you want to see it gone or not.. Add to that mix someone willing to pay for it...

Then simply meet halfway..

Personally as I said time n time again to you... You aren't ready to sell!!

yeah the 'traitor' deserves the credit for that too (how is that twin door that only lets you open said doors 45deg Eps? ) , there is value in them , the value is they are worth what someone will pay for them as as the traitor said , there is probably only 30-50 registered aus wide which means they will increase in value over the next 5yrs imo , i could be wrong but to own a car your best bet is to wage in the mainainence + cost + fuel usage , work out what it will cost you over x amount of years, what the vehicle will help you make over said years (% of your wage you would save by having it), add it all up and think of it as renting a car for that length of time + the fun value and that will give you its worth to you . I've been in a similar boat to you and figured i was better off just putting my car in the garage for a couple years and get back to it when i'm ready