It must be easy to wind back the stagea speedo...

[mavotin]

Just a small point. When the cars come up for auction in Japan, the odometer reading is registered on the website along with a couple of photos, and the condition level (1 - 4). Make sure you get the screen dump from your importing agent.

[ian]

Given this thread has just resurfaced, I thought I'd update it a bit..

Go look at drive.com.au ie http://www.drive.com.au/Search/SearchResul...A%7c&from=4

I'd say the bulk of the stageas on it are wound back, as many simply don't match the types of km's coming out of japan. Yes, there are cars with this many km's on them, but unless every one is coming to a few particular dealers in Australia, and they are not passing on the premium....

Of the adds that give kms -

Year Km's

2001 34k

2000 54k

1999 71k

1999 49k

1999 37k

1999 36k

1999 59k

1998 56k

1999 28k

1999 44k

1999 36k

1997 57k

1997 42k

1997 75k

1997 62k

1997 60k

1997 39k

1996 77k

1996 62k

1996 59k

There is no correlation between the age of the car and the km's! You can almost tell which dealer each car was at by the km's! Do they really think that anyone is going to believe that they have a 1997 car (almost 10 years old) that has done 39K? When I was looking for my stagea, it was very hard to find a 2001 car (in 2005) that had done less than 40k (genuine) - and boy were they at a price premium!

Ian

[stasis]

talking about speedo does anubody knows how ro rake one off in a stagea?

[munchstagea]

talking about speedo does anubody knows how ro rake one off in a stagea?

I think this is what you are asking for Yudy?

Cheers

Luke

[stasis]

holy crap thats exatcly wat i wanted!!! will change the speedo over the weekend now thanks luke

[munchstagea]

It is a shame, looks like it is way to easy...

change your odometer machine

A brand new one

[ian]

holy crap thats exatcly wat i wanted!!! will change the speedo over the weekend now thanks luke

are you changing the dial background (like in the video) or the whole cluster to another one?

[leetom]

anyone can buy a device off ebay which winds em back.

[AlexCim]

link please?

[munchstagea]

link please?

link

[loymclure]

yeah again im unsure about the hole winding back of digital speedo's it could be something as simple as ressetting it to zero and driving around in it for awhile. im pretty sure when the ford BA's came out they were all programmed through the radio so that the speedo's could be zero'd after they had been moved from ford to seller and it was something as simple as pushing a botton 15 times. i have no proof of this but as they say "rumour has it"

Edited January 16, 2007 by loymclure

[Mr_RS4]

I'd have to agree here. When I was looking to buy my Stag I found the same thing (but you always do now with imports yards anyway). One gleaming example was at a yard at Coorparoo here in bris. It was a '97 model with about 49,000ks if I remember correctly. The interior was very worn (seats, steering wheel, shifter etc) and not so much from neglect (but it was in pretty bad shape) but from use. And just the wear and tear you could see even with out going over the car too much you could tell it was no where near 49000 clicks. I was lucky when I got mine, got the origional manuals, log books, purchase reciepts etc etc all in the little vinyl Nissan Stagea case so I had a full history plus all reciepts from work carried out here in Australia. It was a priviate sale. The asking price for the car at the car yard was $19990.00 and I got mine for $19000 so I decided to drive over to the car yard and show the salesman. Probably didn't change his price as I looked months later and was still sitting there and then he shut down like most do eventualy.