Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 11:26 am, by: Sam Fairbank(Icebox425)
Hey guys, just wondering if someone could help me out. I spotted this car for sale but it just seems like too cheap a price for a 1997 model. The lights also look older but then again on some sites I've seen there has been what I think are 1997 models with lights like these. Can anyone clarify?
I take it it will be on the compliance plate if I inspect the car? But then again you would have thought the dealer was bright enough to look at that first?
Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 11:46 am, by: Tobias Trinks(Toby)
1997+ models have different front bars (the ones with grill), round fog lights and different rear lights. That dealer obviously has no idea what he is taking about...
Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 01:45 pm, by: Joe Aliano(Sexylexus)
Sam I agree with Darryn ....the same thing was said to me when I was looking around for a Soarer a few years ago ……the dealer tried to tell me its a 98 model ....I told the idiot that its complied in 98 not made in 98 and that it is in fact a 91 model....so I told him that being the case what price will it be now seeing how its 7 years older than what he claimed.....you might what to try that.
Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 07:16 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Driving lights are plastic, which again shows '91-94.
Check the build plate to get the VIN, and look it up on the table on this site. That will tell you exactly in which year and month it was built, and you need suffer no bullshit.
Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 02:09 am, by: Richard Johnson(92soarertt)
91-94.. You can tell from the front bumper, plastic high beams, tail lights, and rear spoiler. I wouldnt pay more then 4k for that car here in America.
Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 10:35 am, by: Sam Fairbank(Icebox425)
The cars interior is quite good, the best of the few I've looked at. Everything is really clean, but its got 176,000kms so I'm not so interested anymore.
Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 10:56 am, by: Damian Ware(Frozenpod)
humm km's is nothing to worry about.
Interesting fact, in the US they feel are car is worn out when it gets close to 200,000miles in Australia the same thing is thought of when a car gets to close to 200,000km.
Completely not the case, judge a car and more so a soarer on its condition not the km's.
The dash km's are completely incorrect anyway so dont worry about it.
Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 10:34 pm, by: Sam Fairbank(Icebox425)
I dont care about the kms myself, I'm only worried about them in terms of resale value. How have people found selling soarers with over 200,000ks on them?
I'm just worried about having a ~92 car with 230,000kms which nobody wants to touch.
Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:22 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Two years ago I picked up a 1988 two litre Toyota Corona that had done 280,000km for $700 with a new WOF and rego. It had clearly had a hard life but all it needed was a damn good clean inside and out, a full service, and a new left CV joint, and it was a damn good car!
Engine ran sweetly, used no oil, very economical. Had it for about 6 months and 15,000km - then sold it to my Dad - a few months later he drove it into a power poll... DOH! But not before clocking up 300,000 still with no problems.
Monday, February 05, 2007 - 09:21 am, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
I dont think the resale value of a Soarer these days is a problem; they are so cheap that even if they halve their value over 1 year you will still lose less than you would with a brand new car.
Sam Fairbank wrote on Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 10:34 pm:
How have people found selling soarers with over 200,000ks on them?
Not good. Doesn't seem to matter if the car's been looked after or not, the mileage to most people is very much a deciding factor if they don't know what they're really supposed to be paying attention too (i.e. really worn steering wheel/shifter/handbrake, dodgy dash and other electronics, sloppy suspension etc).
Monday, February 05, 2007 - 04:22 pm, by: Damian Ware(Frozenpod)
If you can prove to me the KM's on your car are correct then go ahead.
I looked for a TT soarer for over 8 months I found only two in victoria with geniune KM's.
I then went on the hunt a second time this time looking for a UZZ32 and again I didn't find one with a genuine KM's. Perhaps you don't know how to tell but remember there was a factory recall on the dashes due to the blinky dash problem and 99% of them where replaced.
The dash cluster were not updated by toyota at that time, so how many km's did your car do in the first years of it life with the original dash. Maybe 20,000 perhaps 80,000km who knows. I will say the ones I saw with japanese service history all indicated it was changed at about 50,000 to 80,000km.
Monday, February 12, 2007 - 05:54 pm, by: Andrew Goldberg(Andyg)
David Vaughan wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 07:16 pm:
Check the build plate to get the VIN, and look it up on the table on this site. That will tell you exactly in which year and month it was built, and you need suffer no bullshit.
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.....you might what to try that.
