R34 N/a, Whats Km's Should I Be Looking For When Buying?

[Wagzy]

Hey, I'll be buying a R34 N/A in a couple of months and I've been searching around for a few cars. I've been told I should stick to cars under 90,000-100,000km's.

I've found some that are around $12,000 with 102,000km's, 124,000km's and I was wondering if that's a bit to any km's. The 124,000km one I was looking at has a Nismo body kit, 9 months rego and a few other mods, but should I steer clear and find something under 100,000km's? I'll probably end up reselling the car in 3-4 years time so that would bump the km's up a fair bit.

Thanks

[Charles89]

Forget about the K's, just aim to buy a car that is in good condition and has been looked after and serviced regularly.

A R34 that has done 120,000km but has been garaged for all it's life and serviced every 5,000km is better than,

a R34 that has done 60,000km and has not been serviced since 20,000km and sleeps outside in the rain, snow and shine

Plus, it is fairly common to see the odo whined back in Skylines lol. So K's can be very deceiving.

[Wagzy]

Forget about the K's, just aim to buy a car that is in good condition and has been looked after and serviced regularly.

Ah fair enough. I'm looking to get a nice clean, well looked after car so I guess I should be fine then. Thanks Edited July 15, 2014 by Wagzy

[Jordy32]

Also keep in mind that skylines of all ages are getting older now, an R34 with 20,000km's might be a little too good to be true so keep your guard up. As Charles said, look at the condition of the car rather than the KM's and base your decision on that

Best of luck!

[Ben C34]

The highest.

Most likely to be true.

[Sinista32]

Go to Redbook and look up that year model.It will give you average kms low to high.

If it has under 130,000kms the ODO has likely been fiddled with or changed over (eg. Nismo cluster)

There are some that have genuine low KM's and those owners are likely to have records to prove it and it will be in the higher price range.

and yes definitely check the servicing records etc...

I've been looking at 34GTT's on Carsales and can not believe the number of these that have had their ODO wound back.

Seems it's like 8/10.

Edited July 15, 2014 by Sinista32

[Wagzy]

Also keep in mind that skylines of all ages are getting older now, an R34 with 20,000km's might be a little too good to be true so keep your guard up. As Charles said, look at the condition of the car rather than the KM's and base your decision on that

Best of luck!

Guess I'll just judge to car on the condition it's in the and forget about the km's. Thanks

Go to Redbook and look up that year model.It will give you average kms low to high.

If it has under 130,000kms the ODO has likely been fiddled with or changed over (eg. Nismo cluster)

Redbook was pretty handy for getting an idea of the km's and prices and I've notice not many cars for sale are above 130,000km's.

I've got time so I can search for the right car so I should be fine. Thanks for the replies

Edited July 15, 2014 by Wagzy