Skyline as everyday drive?

[Worm]

Whats ya thoughts on a R33 gtst as a everyday drive? Im talking Short trips, like 15 min to and from work 7 days a week. Can the car handle it?

[pavel]

There is nothing that a skyline can not handle, just treat her good and u'll be fine

[silva33]

I wouldnt worry about it 2 much, it depends what u have done 2 your car i guess...... if it is pretty standard id go for it...

i have driven mine for bout a year every day regardless of time / distance and my skyline has be great..

[Worm]

Thats comforting..........I'll be out and about in no time

[Downforce]

Whats ya thoughts on a R33 gtst as a everyday drive? Im talking Short trips, like 15 min to and from work 7 days a week. Can the car handle it?

Errr. of course it can handle it... a car is meant to be driven. If you're car is heavily modified, idle's rough and has a dog box then it may be less than convenient to drive... but a standard or lightly modified GTS-t can be daily driven no problem, it's just another car.. and it's not like its a Ferrari where u would be concerned with putting too many k's on it (resale value).

I'm tempted to say this falls into the stupid question of the week basket

[rs73]

It should be fine for short 15 min trips...

Just make sure the first few mins treat the engine & turbo nicely as they warms up.

Afterwards you can have about 8-10 mins of "fun".

Then the last 5 mins of the trip try to leave your ego in the boot (even if this means a Hyundai Excel beats you at the light). This way your engine & turbo will not be boiling

hot when you reached your destination.

Otherwise get a turbo timer if you must show your ego anyway, but I myself is security conscious so I won't leave my car running on timer parked anywhere these days. It might tempt the unexpected....

[predator]

Eeasy enough to drive each day.. and great car to drive each day as an actual car..

Thats what i used to do in melbourne when i lived there pretty much.. drive it about 15 mins to work there and back. It was ok at times.. then i got sick of it of the realities after about 12 months.

The main problem i reckon is the "inbetween" bits.. dickheads who can't drive who can make your car off the road for weeks/months.. mobile cameras during the day.. parking and worrying about some dickhead scratching it or trashing it due to jealousy.. dickheads trying to steal it.. old ladies opening car doors at shopping centres onto it, or worrying about that.. the $ it costs for petrol (and start stop uses the most petrol and petrol is heaps more expensive in melb).. getting over ridiculous speed bumps and up shopping centre things when u duck down to the shops at lunchtime .. wanker cops taking a disliking to you and decided to defect you just to annoy the shit out of you.. the list goes on and on.

The stress just bothered me too much.. now i have a daily driver and havent looked back. Then when u have a daily, and you have a $20k skyline sitting there you wonder whether its worth having a car that much that you hardly ever drive.

So anyway, there is my contrasting opinion.

[rs73]

I know what u mean predator.... funny thing I'm more stressed of what you mentioned above in the first 3-6 months of acquiring my Skyline.... My Skyline has been quite faithful to me on daily basis for the past 2 years and 2 months.

[MaXiMuS007]

Remember, as much as we hate to admit it, the Skyline is more or less a Japanese commonwhore (tho 10123987 times better), so of course it handle normal driving. Only prob with short trips is warming the engine up (as Rianto mentioned) and maybe the battery if they are too short.

I drive my car either to work (8 mins) or uni (15 mins) most days, no problems (besides getting dented and broken into)

[heartbrkr]

Add my 2 cents.

I only ever drive my car on short trips in the evenings. As said before, issues to consider:

- need to wait 5 minutes to warm up from stone cold for turbo's sake.

- parking in supermarket car park (some twit dented my passenger door too)

- parking it unattended in mall complex (havent been game to)

- fuel consuption (even on short trips, it likes to drink a lot) and i only ever boost from lights.

- insurance (rape me again)

- service/parts (still costs less than my 15yr old junker i had before)

- havent been bothered by cops, but i read cops in knox like to harrass you.

- suspension is a little uncomfortable just for cruising. i felt every pot hole when i first got mine, the road noise is quiet loud i found (concealed by stereo).

i think main issue is why you want a skyline, and if its the car you want, then get one. if there is something else that takes your fancy, then test drive that, and ask question again.

[Nismo Racer]

the R33 is an allrounder for suburban driving

[WazR32GTSt]

Errr. of course it can handle it... a car is meant to be driven. If you're car is heavily modified, idle's rough and has a dog box then it may be less than convenient to drive... but a standard or lightly modified GTS-t can be daily driven no problem, it's just another car.. and it's not like its a Ferrari where u would be concerned with putting too many k's on it (resale value).

I'm tempted to say this falls into the stupid question of the week basket

haha...

definately stupid question of the week!

[whistla]

just remeber theyre used as taxis in japan...

theyre just another car, nothing more nothing less

[Evil]

I use my car as a daily driver... i take it shopping and the whole works... never had a problem

[pinoi_boi_r33]

mine is daily driver to uni everyday. I live in frankston and go to monash clayton thats about an hour drive during traffic. no problems. u don't have to warm up 5 minutes everytime, if u do that u will do more harm than good. warm up 2 min then take it easy.

[JAPCAB]

R33 for daily driver....well there are a few issues to consider.

Firstly, the canary factor. The cops will pull over any skyline they see normally, stock as a rock or done up to the sh*thouse because normally they all will have at least a BOV or something that they can stick you on so they can make their $165 by fining your ass.

Parking your skyline around the place - be careful. There have been many cases of skyline owners getting keyed to the sh*thouse, and also due to the fact that r33 is easier to get into than a st kilda hooker - you will have to watch out where you park it unless u want your deck/guages and anything else of junkie value to go missing. When my r33 got broken into, it wasn't the $600 pioneer deck that got knicked that was a problem, it was the damage to the door where they got in, now i need a new door. Alarm helps but if these jerks want to jack ur car they will do it regardless.....besides so what if your alarm is going off, i doubt any bystanders or anyone walking past will jump in and say anything anyways.

Petrol - lets face it, u jump into the skyline and you arent going to be able to control yourself, the pedal inevitably finds its way to full throttle whether you like it or not. Before i got my line i used to think the v6 VR Commo chewed too much petrol......now i find its pretty economical, but compare that to a 4 cylinder lazer and its got the fuel comsumption of an aircraft carrier. also u have to put optimax in these things.....i paid $1.20 for premium the other week - its a bloody joke. Its getting to the stage were me and my mates are having to think about jacking an optimax tanker to get us through a few weekends of burning around.

Clocking up km's during the week - u have to service these bastards every 5,000 kms....believe you me it comes around quickly and thats just driving it on weekends. Any weekday dilly dallying will bring your service closer and closer.

My 2 cents......or by the size of this post u might consider it as 10 cents worth....

[riggaP]

My S1 GTS25t is driven about 200km per week. It is lightly modified (ie full zorst and bleed valve) and has run a 13.8 1/4 mile. I usually get 450km to the tank. Its been serviced by myself every 5-7000km for around $80.

In the 2 years I've had it, the only problem I've encountered was the water pump shit itself. I put a VL pump on and it only cost $127. Thats cheaper than my old EA falcon water pump :uh-huh:

I have NEVER been hassled by the bacon scented law enforcers... probably due to luck.

Insurance is the only real bitch I can think of.

[Worm]

Thanks for the replys, Im def going to look into it more, instead of impulse buy. As for stupid question, There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people.......and we know who that is

[T0nyGTSt]

I drive my one 15km to work (maybe 20-30mins in peak) - 30km a day.

Benm drives his for 5 mins a day!

I find fuel consumption quite ok for what is a high performance car. A worked RB25 will run thru the petrol almost like a big car (eg. BA Falcon).

I find maintenance to be cheaper than a comparable 10 year old car because of wreckers and the general 'VL Commodore-ness' of the RB.

Try a GT-R as a daily... then you will know what 'runnings costs' truly means.

T.

[rs73]

just remeber theyre used as taxis in japan...

theyre just another car, nothing more nothing less

I think the ones used for taxi are the 4 door GTS with N/A RB25DE, not the RB25DET. Would be uneconomical to use a turbo car as taxi because the higher running cost of petrol. (that's why the V6 Falcon/Commodores are also popular here as taxi, not the V8s.)

Saying that they're taxi in jpn to prove skyline is an everyday car is like comparing apples and oranges for the majority of turbocharged skylines that we get here in Australia. Plus taxi run high kms in a day and engine always running most of the time. Not just 5 min or 5km trips here and there like we they way some of us use our car to go to the mall.