Advice - R33 Gtst $19000

[Blue_R32]

Hi All, I am new here and about to purchase my first skyline.

Just wanna see if you guys think this is an ok deal, as I am close to buy this car.

R33 Series1 oct 1993

Just been Complied..

$19000 which includes

6 months rego, stamp duty aussie stereo installed, imobiliser installed (so drive away price)

has done 107000 KM's - Just had major service (timing belt, plugs etc)

Black - just resprayed, had scratches on it from japan. Have seen proof of why the respray was neccessary.

Stock standard car.

Has full JAP service history..

Seems to drive ok..

So can you guys please assure me that this is not too expensive for what I am about to buy, as i have seen a few other cars advertised arround for about the same price but have less KM's on them..

This is 19000 drive away..

Cheers

[someonestolecc]

Had respray for scratches?

Looks sus, might be fine but I'd have it checked out by NRMA or whoever in your state. ALWAYS do this.. INSIST!!

I wish I had when I bought my car instead of just being trusting.

[Blue_R32]

What about the price man??

Say i get a RAQC inspection done. And comes up fine.. What ya reckon, Price vs KM's..

The interior is in sweet condition

[rukus]

seems a little too expensive

my 94 r33 series1 was $17k with around 80000kms on the dial.

stock standard except for the bodykit - frontbar/400R rearbar, gtr sideskirts

[tang0]

i can offer you a '96 series 2 r33 gtst for $20k

rwc, rego until december

68,000 kms

Solid red ...

brant a002 immob

infact, just head over to carsales to see the full ad

http://www.carsales.com.au/pls/carsales/!c...rch_distance=10

personally, i'd say spending 1k more for a '96 series 2 is worth it !

Hi All, I am new here and about to purchase my first skyline.

Just wanna see if you guys think this is an ok deal, as I am close to buy this car.

R33 Series1 oct 1993

Just been Complied..

$19000 which includes

6 months rego, stamp duty aussie stereo installed, imobiliser installed (so drive away price)

has done 107000 KM's - Just had major service (timing belt, plugs etc)

Black - just resprayed, had scratches on it from japan. Have seen proof of why the respray was neccessary.

Stock standard car.

Has full JAP service history..

Seems to drive ok..

So can you guys please assure me that this is not too expensive for what I am about to buy, as i have seen a few other cars advertised arround for about the same price but have less KM's on them..

This is 19000 drive away..

Cheers

[tang0]

oh, you can see it easily as well as i work in chatswood !

[rukus]

oh, you can see it easily as well as i work in chatswood !

haha he's in brisbane so i dont think it'd be easy for him to see it

[Blue_R32]

haha he's in brisbane so i dont think it'd be easy for him to see it

yeah brisbane here man.. Bummer hey..

The one thing i like about this car is i would be the first aussie owner..(doesn't really mean jack) and it has full log books from japan (dont mean much either cause i cant read them.)...

Broken down the car would cost me $17850 + ORC.. with imobiliser install thrown in to

=$19000

Anyone know and dealers in brisbane/goldcoast with any better deals?

[Silver'sR33]

That's not a good deal, shop around, wait a bit. Private seller is better price too, I got a series II with light mods for $17.5

Or just tell the dealer you'll give him $16k and be prepared to walk if he says no. 17.85 is a rip-off for a 93 model and the dealer would be well-aware of that.

[LiAm]

Yeh...i say its a bit too pricey for the amount of K's the car has done...shop around and see what you can find.

[JCMarshall_Law]

It is not to bad for a dealer i thought, but the respray sounds a bit dodgy - makesure your convinced on the reasons for the respray.

You could get a lot better car for that price in a private sale.

About the km's, I think that is a great sign, if those log books are genuine, almost all skylines have their clocks wound back and prolly have up to twice what the odo says.

107000 KM's is definatly not to much if they are genuine - which the logs books would indicate.

I paid $19000 for mine in a private sale about a year ago, which was a lot, but I don't think there was a better one in Briz for sale at the time (considering what I was looking for), I looked at 14 lines over about 2 months, most were $1000 - $3000 cheaper, but I was willing to pay the higher price for this one.

[ECR033]

Have you looked at any other Skylines yet? Don't make the mistake of just buying the first car you see...

If you're patient and look around a bit more, you'll notice that the price is a little high for an early Series 1 R33. For $19k, you'd want it to either have some decent mods, less km's or be a fair bit newer. Have a look on carsales.com.au to get a better idea for what they're selling for - private sales are usually a fair bit cheaper than dealers.

Good luck

[JCMarshall_Law]

My advice:

1)look at at least 5 cars before you even think of buying something - even if you think you have just found the best deal ever - trust me there are better deals out there.

2) Keep a good eye out on these forums, some seriously good deals come up fairly regularly - I know because I have been kicking myself seeing what some really nice lines are going for on these forums.

[Silver'sR33]

There's a seriously modified pristine showcar Sil80, featured in magazines etc, for sale right now for 20k on nissansilvia.com, now that is a goddamn bargain in my opinion.

[siksII]

way to expensive even if it is a very clean car

[Blue_R32]

Thanks for all the replys peoples.. I appreciate it.

I have looked a a couple so far and i thought this one was pretty good, but as you guys have now lead me to believe I can probablly get soething a bit better for $19000..

THANKS

[slow13dude]

The one thing i like about this car is i would be the first aussie owner..(doesn't really mean jack)

Sure it does mean something.

So for all Skylines in Japan or just from Japan:

Thrashed by Japs

So for all Skylines in Australia from Japan:

Thrashed by Japs

Thrashed by Aussies

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Hey if you can take some of the thrashing out it's got to be a good thing.

[Abo Bob]

And since no one has mentioned it so far. Don't believe the k's. They are reasonably irrelevant. Just look at condition. I can't believe there are people around here that seriously think 40-80,000 on an 8-12 year old car is genuine.

[DivHunter]

No one mentioned getting a 1989/90/91 GT-R for $20k? Maybe you can't get them for that in Brisneyland.

Getting a 1995 GTS25-T ~90k kms completely stock in great nick (fully tested, compression, leak down etc) for $14500 on road (well my onroads are more but are paid for me )

[Silver'sR33]

Sure it does mean something.

So for all Skylines in Japan or just from Japan:

Thrashed by Japs

So for all Skylines in Australia from Japan:

Thrashed by Japs

Thrashed by Aussies

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Hey if you can take some of the thrashing out it's got to be a good thing.

Yeah but on the other hand I've always assumed that if you buy a car from an Aussie owner you can sometimes see the owner for themselves, guage how they feel about the car, whether they love the car. Not all owners thrash their cars - I don't thrash mine, I drive it fast sometimes but that's not thrashing it. I service it regularly, hell I even fix stuff that doesn't really need it just to be sure.

Also, cars that come from Japan can have some issues from sitting out on the docks for many months, maintenance things that haven't been done for a while etc....those aren't problems if the car's been here for a year or so.

You might have a 93 car that's had 5 jap owners versus a 97 car that's had one jap owner and one aussie one. I know which one I'd want

If I wanted a car with no aussie owners I'd want to import it myself not buy it from some dealer. At least then you get EXACTLY what you want, you know what it looks like before the detailing and dealer panelbeating, and most importantly you KNOW that it's straight from Japan.

How do you even know this R33 has had no aussie owners? Cos the dealer told you?

As for the GT-Rs - they're not as many of them for 20k here as down south but they're around. Only problem is, unless youre reall lucky I would assume that if you spend 20k you better have a few grand ready just in case because at $20k a GT-R is probably old, possibly dodgy and DEFINITELY expensive to fix if you're unlucky.