How reliable is your Skyline?

[gel]

I had my 33 GTS-T for 5.5 years and no major problems. Only thing was power steering hoses started leaking and air-cond fan control switch died. Normal wear and tear items... Not bad for a 12 year old car!

[Big Rizza]

In two years of ownership, there have only been minor niggles, and the car has ALWAYS been drivable - it's never left me stranded on the side of the road.

The sorts of trouble I have had include:

- Power steering leak - busted hoses replaced

- Excessive front tyre wear - worn steering rack mounts replaced

- Suspension bushes cracking - replaced with polyurethane bushes

- Battery died - replaced

- Coil packs worn - soon to be replaced

- Misfire under load (after service) - spark plugs gapped incorrectly, repaired

- Boost guage failed - replaced cracked air hose

- Stereo speaker failed - replaced all speakers with new ones

- CD head unit failed - serves me right for fitting a crap one, replaced

- Aircon not very cold - windows lowered

So yeah nothing major has gone wrong. Stock boost however, which I'm sure has helped keep the engine in tip top shape.

Right now it has an intermittant problem where it won't start - the starter motor will turn the engine over, but it won't fire into life. Haven't had a chance to diagnose, but leaving battery on charge over night cures it temporarily, and you can always jump or push start the car. It might be a dead battery again - the car gets left undriven for weeks at a time due to work commitments, and that's usually enough to drain the battery so they wear out pretty quick for me.

Edited February 16, 2007 by Big Rizza

[kismetcapitan]

Ten months of ownership of a 1991 R32 GT-R. The car has been drivable ten weeks of that period. First engine - bad map, bad knock took out piston#6. Second (old, cheap worn out) engine, I drove the old, stock fuel pump into the ground by running 700cc injectors and 4~5bar fuel pressure. Det-based preignition during the pump failure took out all six piston rings in a meltdown. Now on it's third engine (completely rebuilt, refreshed, rebored, repistoned, re-bearinged, re-everything) which is making over 600bhp at the flywheel, but just lost its oil pump. In a highly tuned car, small mistakes end up causing BIG problems, and the vacuum lines are still not sorted out, causing a mysterious fuel pressure drop over 6000rpm. At this point (by my choice), the car is more "restored" than simply "repaired". I've spend USD40,000 on the project so far, and I am hoping mightily, praying actually, that the end is in sight and that I can just drive the damned thing. Expensive, but if all goes well, about $2-3000 more will see the car finished, and I'll have a car faster than a 911 turbo for a tiny fraction of the price (they cost about $250,000 in Korea).

I guess it just depends on how you look at it

Edited February 16, 2007 by kismetcapitan

[SLOW33]

hey all, i just now recently have joined your skyline groupy thing u got goin on here!

i just needed to reply to this topic as i too have had 6 commies and im only 20 years old!

i am meeting a guy wit a 1997 r33 to swap him for my vs ss, now my ss is in mint condition and has the works and the 33 had an exhaust and coola, but once again IT IS a 33.

do you think im doin the right thing????????

[Ska]

I flogged the living crap out of my R33 for ~2yrs, only thing that "broke" was the fuel pump, which was stock. All other "broke" things were self inflicted.

Although nearing the end I had nearly no third gear and there were funny noises coming from the bottom end, but that is what happens when you sit on the rpm limiter for that long, without letting it warm up either.

[MANWHORE]

100% reliable. I trust my life on it everytime I drive it

[Nathan_G1]

after everything thats been done to mine im seriousl suprised its still running, and running amazingly.......they really are a great peice of machinery