sorry 69K
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sorry 69K
Do you import these? I'm pretty damn interested.
Very very nice.
Hey Iron Chef, good on ya matey, man I'm sure we're all jealous....
Hey Iron Chef, I noticed there are no side blinkers on the car, make sure you check if whether these are part of the regulations. I heard all cars must have side blinkers.
I believe once the car is here, it has to have its emissions tested, then have to go through the usual seat belt checks and a child seat restraint may need to be added into the car.
Then the Canberra boys from Department of Transport would need to come and inspect the car and review any discussion points.
Man, good on ya Chef! :)
Btw, if you can get the NAV system working I would be interested to know how..
90LAN - the specs from Japan are slightly better, on paper at least, and shipping is definitely cheaper. You can bring in UK ones if you prefer, but I suspect most will come from Japan.
NightRyder - wow good spotting, son! I'm quite surprised at that one - I thought they might be in the mirrors, but obviously not. I suspect they'd have to drill a hole in the guards and fit aftermarket ones, so I'll make sure they use Honda ones off another model at least, rather than bastardising it with VT Commodore repeater lights or something lol.
As for Sat Nav - getting it working would probably cost more than a decent aftermarket one anyway, so not worth the hassle.
Hey Iron Chef, I agree, I think the NAV system might not be worth it as you mentioned.
If I am right, the EU civics front guards are the same as the EP's therefore they already have these blinkers readily available if the boys at your compliance centre were to drill holes in the sides.
I noticed some of the UK EP3's have blinkers on their mirrors...why JDM don't have them, no idea! *sigh*
Anyway, keep us posted man!
i hope it is not japan as japan hardly drive so many km for a 01 model
unbelievable, very beautiful car!
I, along with many many others here will be watching the process of this EP3 very very closely. Maybe once everything is done and its full steam ahead there will be many more potential EP3 owners out there (i'd be interested forsure).
Top effort Iron Chef! Enjoy the car once its on the road!
DB
Type G - Actually many of them DO clock up reasonable kms in cars in Japan - but they're also skilled at winding back odometers ;)
Like most places, there are plenty of genuine low km cars around, but you pay for them accordingly. Personally, I'd rather have a genuine 69000km car than a 40,000km car that has had the odometer wound back.
the car itself is a rocket around the track...that car will own many!!!
It is pretty hard for them to wound back the odometer these days, especially because most cars (like the EP) now use electronic reading and not the usual manual type that exists in older cars. If they were to attempt to wound back these electronic ones, the module potentially just fries and dies, hence the car cannot be registered or officially deemed drivable as its Km's travelled is undetermined.
I guess the only way they would get around that would be to replace the whole dash cluster with a new one but even that is then questonable....
From what I heard, the Japanese people are very picky in what they drive, if it is not made in Japan or Germany then chances are they would sell their cars after 2 years fairly quickly. And as a result, most of the cars will have low Km's ranging from 20,000 to 60,000Kms.
Iron Chef, can I ask how much is the car itself? before adding the importation costs etc?
NightRyder - you forget that Japan is home to probably the greatest per capita number of computer geeks in the world lol. Changing a digital odometer in Japan costs around $250 and takes all of about 5 minutes and it's almost totally untraceable. Sad but true. It pays to buy a car with service records...
The way registration works in Japan is that you get 3 years' worth when you buy the car, and then you buy it in two-year lots after that. Back in the boom period of the early 90s, cars were considered worthless at 3 years of age, but belts have tightened significantly in Japan since then, and the norm is for cars to be re-registered and sold at around the 5 year mark these days, and my car is a case in point. So 69,000km on a 5 year old car is hardly unusual.
For the first time ever, cars in Japan, particularly turbo RWDs, are holding their value exceptionally well. When I worked at the auctions there back in 2000, I bought a 1998 R34 Skyline for 1.25 million yen for a customer. I actually paid 1.306 million for basically the same car in March this year (and that was my own drive car..).
Ball park prices for EP3s seem to be in the 1.4-1.5 million yen mark (included in this is 100,000 in FOB charges in Japan) for ones in good nick. I think I said $16K higher up, which is around about right given the current exchange rate.