New V35

[thinktea]

^^^ yeah that is the key - the Jp auction sheet. I guarantee you pretty much NO car yard in Australia will give or show you the Jp auction sheet - most will claim "we bought it from a yard in Jp so it has no auction sheet" - if that is the case ask for the dereg papers (which EVERY car has to have before leaving Japan), which always have the genuine Jp kms. They won't even show you these, as they know all the ODOs have been doctored when the cars come into Aus.

I actually found the auction sheet of a V35 sedan (here on a lot in Adelaide) stuffed in the bottom of the glove box under other stuff. It showed that the ODO was not correct, AND the car had had major rear end repairs so should never have been brought and complied here at all. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy.

Agree with this. When I got my V35 arrived from Japan, this was the first document that my local import agent provided me with and told me to keep safe. Of course, this doesn't rule out a roll back of the ODO while it was in Japan and before it got to the Jap auctions but that is rare compared to a roll back once it hits Australian shores!

Another approach is to do a google of the six digit car model number. Sometimes you get a hit from old listings in the Japanese equivalent of 'Carsales'. I found one which was listed in Japan as a 2003 model with 150,000kms doing its rounds 9 monhts later in Oz as a 2004 model with 55,000kms..same model number...hehe...