Wound Back Or Just Act Vs Sydney Price Difference?

[sl33py]

I'm in ACT, looking at R33's, preferably series 2 (I want ABS and preferably at least one air bag).

If you go to to drive.com.au and put in nissan/skyline/sydney and look at the results, there are many cars on offer from a dealer called Japlink.com.au (you have to pess the "show dealer info" on the bottom right to see them. They are typically 96 onwards, near original condition, between 50-90 thou kms on the clock and range in price from 18-24K.

Now my question is: I've heard of odometers being wound back. Been talking to a friend and he reckons the more recent imports (eg 96 on) are more likely to have been wound back than ones from 95 and earlier.

Considering that the NEWEST R33 Skyline I can find from a dealer in Canberra is a 96, done 123 thou kms (not sure about the options), and is going for 23K... what does that mean? I'm probably gonna go look at the latter this weekend, but there's no way in hell I'd pay that much.. unless it's FULL optioned, i'm talking the LOT, and in great condition.. but I doubt it, because a lot of them in Canberra are not only more expensive than Sydney, but less features, more kms and older cars.

It's not even: "this 96 R33 in Sydney with X features and Y kms costs 19K in Sydney and 25K in Canberra",

its more like: "this 96 R33 in Sydney with X features and Y kms costs 19K in Sydney and a 94 R33 in Canberra with X-4 number of features and Y+40 thou kms costs 25K."

What GIVES? Are all the Sydney ones wound back? I'd find it hard to believe they all are? They all look like good condition from the photos I can see online. Or are Canberra dealers all charging way too much?

And just in case these Japlink cars are for real, has anyone had experience with them? I know ppl don't like paying out shops etc on here, so if you've had good experience, say so, and if bad, just say "I've dealt with them ..." or something equally as obvious, so I get the point. No details needed! Surely that's acceptable to everyone's morals/standpoint. I'd like to know as I'm gonna make the trip to go look and don't want to waste time at places that are renowned as dodgy.

Hope to sort out my confusion... thanks in advance.

[sl33py]

I mean hell, I live 10 minutes drive from work (Belconnen to Civic for those who know Canberra) and I do buggerall on the weekends and I travelled 15 thou kms last year. Some of these cars at dealers in Sydney supposedly did 55000 / 9 = 6111kms a year... I know Japan is a small place but.... as if. Pls tell me if I'm wrong.

[Abo Bob]

Dude, 95% of all imported skylines are wound back in Japan.

Ignore the km's completely. Look for wear on the steering wheel, drivers seat, handbrake, floor mat etc.

[ferni]

Dude, 95% of all imported skylines are wound back in Japan.

Ignore the km's completely.  Look for wear on the steering wheel, drivers seat, handbrake, floor mat etc.

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As he said. Ignore kms, no matter what year it is, they are all wound back

[sl33py]

Oh.... Ok.

That simplifies things immensely. Thanks

[krzysiu]

Yeah just ignore them. But sometimes its hard to tell. My car has 140,000Km on it right now (96 R33 Sereis 2). I do believe that this does seem genuine, but who knows. Also my steering wheel has practically no wear on it, maybe just a little scratch.

Edited October 7, 2005 by krzysiu

[Charles Tisse]

They're all wound back? What a joke.

So in that case they price their cars based on their condition not their kilometres right?

[Duncan]

Yep all wound back. The one you saw in Canberra has probably been in Australia for a while so it has some genuine klm on it as well

I got mine with 44,000klm and sold it 4 years later with about 110,000klm. And had exactly the same problem, people quite reightly expect to be able to trust the klm and did not want to pay for what seemed to be high klm compared to the rest of the market

[dezz]

as ive recently learnt, most of the 1's with low kms (ie 33,000kms on a series 2 R33) with log books, is probably genuine, but probably because it was sitting in the shop after an accident waiting to be repaired for ages!