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[Westgatez]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...LANT&logcode=p

Very clean example, almost definitely already snapped up the moment it steps foot in the country. Still worth mentioning though, there may be a slim chance it isn't.

[chris g]

Motorhub...

Generaly a place to avoid...

IIRC linked to a dealer in Keighley...

[TAR]

Keep your eyes wide open if you're tempted by anything from this dealer.

[ianturbo]

I got my last one from them ,apart from the wheel falling off the day after I bought it ,(they more than paid for the damage) I had it 10 years , so can't really fault them ,

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[zemo86]

I have been looking at that too. The seller is putting me right off, I know of a few people who have been stung by these guys so I'm staying well away.

For that amount of money I'm sure I can import my own and still have some change.

Bonnet doesn't line up on the near side as if it has been pushed down by the wing area. I wouldn't be surprised if its accident repaired car TBH.

Them guys have a very bad reputation, just Google MotorHub or Keighley Car Trade centre their old name.

[Abarthisking]

I am not dissing Ianturbo's car and I know he ran it for 10 years......

But I now own his car for spares and I have had a good look under the car and you can clearly see where its been lifted with a forklift truck......the chassis rails are crushed in two distinct places (the width of the folks)

I was speaking to my local JDM parts importer and he confirmed the damage as that of a folklift.

He told me a tale that when they imported cars from Japan they had a few that came with this type of damage. One car he said was the worst, was a Sti that had the folks went into both doors and they still loading it on the ship to the UK for them to repair. Some of the cheaper docks in Japan just dont give a **** and load the cars without caring....so be warned.

So watch out for bad dealers.......you have to remember most of the good cars have already left Japan for Aus or NZ a long time ago. I am now reading stories of R31/32 Skylines been taken from scrap yards and then cut and shut to make whats looks like a good car to be then sold to the Americans. As they are now 25 years old and can command a high resale in the states.

I am not saying all sellers are bad........but unless the car in Japan has been checked 100% as a good car stay clear.

I have also personally seen about 10 years ago at what was then my local JDM import place (Vineplace it was called) a Mazda RX7 sold as a grade 3.5 car but you could clearly see it had been damaged repaired.......silver on silver is hard to blend in..........and it still had a small ripple in the roof line.

[Nick Mann]

3.5 would tend to imply a damaged repaired, wouldn't it? If all the good cars have already left, is Japan full of duff cars now? Sorry to disagree a little, but I suspect there are good and bad cars leaving all the time, same as any second hand car buying. If someone with a nice car moves on, a nice car hits the second hand market.

I'd buy from anywhere, but with a rep like this place I'd have my eyes wide open before I handed over any cash.

[Nick Mann]

Incidentally, the car is a type V, no high vis dash, so will almost certainly have an open rear diff. Other stuff is easily visible too - Evo 9 alloys, Teins, Front seat swap, steering wheel with no airbag, intercooler. The headlights and tail lights look to be non original for the model, although the headlights could be UKDM. Weird light in the rear bumper - Reverse light? Plastic arches are probably added as early type V models didn't have them. What looks to be a fujitsubo exhaust, although it is difficult to tell for sure. A black roof, Monte Carlo stickers, air intake, hard pipe kit and something in the stereo aperture, although I can;t tell what it is. There is also what appears to be dodgy stick on carbon over the switch panel by the coin tray and the drivers side A pillar so a pound to a pinch of salt the car has sported gauges and the like in the past. It also looks like it could be quite clean with regards to tin worm.

Could be a corker, could be a badly put together messed around with nightmare.