Anyone want to inspect a VR6 with me in Sydney on the weekend?

[patmould93]

Yeah his name is Eric, I'm talking about Paul as in cicca 294 who replied on here, my bad. The car is in fantastic condition by the looks of it, it's just that I can expect pricey routine replacements in the next 20,000km eg. clutch

[patmould93]

Just to clarify there is absolutely nothing wrong with the car currently. Heater core was replaced a few months back but cicca was saying GENERALLY you can expect the clutch to go relatively soon. There's no issue driving back down to melb.

[drucejnr]

Yeh, those pricey jobs are what I can't afford at the moment. Hence why I might purchase the VR6 up at Glenorie. Despite 245000km on clock it's only had one owner, so that's more of a deal for me. Don't forget the 4900$ negotiable price tag. Good luck with the VR on Saturday mate, wish it was me buying it but I know there'll always be more around.

[patmould93]

Thanks mate.

yeah it'll be a struggle if I need to replace much too. I'm fairly sure I'll buy it, but if I don't, I'll let you know.

[drucejnr]

No worries.

Well if you don't, you can always find me on here (: and that would be muchly appreciated!
Mostly want to get a VR to show up my mates. One has a 1986 VL Calais and the other a '97 Nissan Bluebird SSS and I want to give them a run for their money (:<

[Cuprageous]

Hey Pat, have you checked out the red colour concept on Carsales that's in Essendon? I realise he's asking a lot more than the Sydney car but it's done half the Ks, has VIC rego to Oct and appears to be immaculate. Any asking price is negotiable and I reckon you could bargain it down a lot, especially if you offer him cash (always a great motivator).

Weigh that up against the additional cost of 2 x flights to Syd (maybe twice), fuel etc costs for return drive then the hassle of needing to obtain a VIC RWC (without really knowing what your mechanic may require to be fixed) then front up to VicRoads with all the paperwork to arrange the VIC rego.

After you work both scenarios out I reckon you'd have the overall cost of the two cars being about $1000 apart in which case I'd be giving the VIC car the nod as it's simply far less hassle - you don't have to fly up being uncertain whether the car is still available by the time you get to see it, let alone whether you will buy it on the spot and drive it home, put a deposit on it and fly back home then fly back up "later" to THEN drive it home, see it and be disappointed in its condition so you don't buy it then fly home, etc, etc.....

My suggestion would be to see if you can get someone from here to go check the car out for you, take some detailed pics and get a proper look at the service history of the car, then email you back all the info so you can make a decision whether to make a play for it.

What I did recently was purchase a car from an auction house in Newcastle NSW (I'm in Melb) for my daughter but I had an acquaintance from another non-car forum go check it out for me with a mechanic mate. They gave it a good going over and told me it was a steal for the going price so we bought it. I arranged for him to pick it up and then meet us at the airport so we could drive it home, which was a great way to get to know the car, which has turned out to be a gem - it's been VIC registered for 2 weeks now and although the whole process was a hassle we ended up with a much better car than what was available locally.

Lastly, if you DO go ahead and buy the car from Sydney then drive it back, be aware that as a learner driver you can only travel at 80 km/h on NSW roads. This is a very grey and contentious issue but believe me when I say I looked into it thoroughly on both car forums and government websites and this is the conclusion I came to. If you want to know why ask me and I will let you know but for now I think my post is long enough.........

[Ben J]

If it has a good service history and you keep the maintance up chances are you wont have to fork out big to keep it going. Ive been running my vr6 making $70 a week, and have spent most of that on little mods (manage to scab fuel money from parents/friends ect when im taxiing them around which is like 80% of the time). If (well when i guess, you have to be ready for it) things break the actual parts for most of the things are actually pretty cheap (like heatercore is less then 50, timing chain kits are only a couple hundred, same with clutch), its the labour that will rape your wallet. Theres a lot of information out there about how to do practically anything to the vr6, some good detailed guides on timing chains ect, so really if your willing to get stuck in, spend some hours swearing and trying to figure out wtf youve done wrong and learn a heap about your car, you can fix most of the common problems up pretty cheaply. Dont let the horror stories put you off. Do learn from peoples mistakes though (eg, if timing chains are reallly bad, dont keep driving till it slips and destroys valves ect)

I got my VR6 from Sydney aswell, id recommend printing out a few adds and taking a look at a couple if you can, incase the one you're really interested turns out to be a no go. I guess NSW->QLD is a bit further then to VIC and we spent a weekend there and did a couple other things aswell, but came home with a completely different vr6 to the one i had basically planned on getting (it was sold days before our flights where booked...)

Good luck!

[patmould93]

Hey Pat, have you checked out the red colour concept on Carsales that's in Essendon? I realise he's asking a lot more than the Sydney car but it's done half the Ks, has VIC rego to Oct and appears to be immaculate. Any asking price is negotiable and I reckon you could bargain it down a lot, especially if you offer him cash (always a great motivator).

Weigh that up against the additional cost of 2 x flights to Syd (maybe twice), fuel etc costs for return drive then the hassle of needing to obtain a VIC RWC (without really knowing what your mechanic may require to be fixed) then front up to VicRoads with all the paperwork to arrange the VIC rego.

After you work both scenarios out I reckon you'd have the overall cost of the two cars being about $1000 apart in which case I'd be giving the VIC car the nod as it's simply far less hassle - you don't have to fly up being uncertain whether the car is still available by the time you get to see it, let alone whether you will buy it on the spot and drive it home, put a deposit on it and fly back home then fly back up "later" to THEN drive it home, see it and be disappointed in its condition so you don't buy it then fly home, etc, etc.....

My suggestion would be to see if you can get someone from here to go check the car out for you, take some detailed pics and get a proper look at the service history of the car, then email you back all the info so you can make a decision whether to make a play for it.

What I did recently was purchase a car from an auction house in Newcastle NSW (I'm in Melb) for my daughter but I had an acquaintance from another non-car forum go check it out for me with a mechanic mate. They gave it a good going over and told me it was a steal for the going price so we bought it. I arranged for him to pick it up and then meet us at the airport so we could drive it home, which was a great way to get to know the car, which has turned out to be a gem - it's been VIC registered for 2 weeks now and although the whole process was a hassle we ended up with a much better car than what was available locally.

Lastly, if you DO go ahead and buy the car from Sydney then drive it back, be aware that as a learner driver you can only travel at 80 km/h on NSW roads. This is a very grey and contentious issue but believe me when I say I looked into it thoroughly on both car forums and government websites and this is the conclusion I came to. If you want to know why ask me and I will let you know but for now I think my post is long enough.........

Hey,

Yeah I've had a look, but it is 10 grand. I've managed to get Mum to pay for the flight up and if we drive it down, fuel on the way back, so it'll only be costing $6500 plus the 30 bucks to transfer rego and whatever it is to get number plates. This will rape my bank account but I should cash in at my 18th in June so I should be able to afford any repairs or whatever.

I've already booked the flights anyway so I might as well go and have a look. I'm not going to be driving it much at all until I'm 18 and at that stage I will have enough money if anything breaks.

The 80kmh thing is ridiculous but I'll probably get Mum to drive it most of the way out of NSW anyway if we get it.

Thanks for the advice I'll take that on board.

Also, I see you're in Croydon, do you ever see anyone running around at Springfield Reserve on Mt Dandenong Rd in gridiron pads and helmets? haha I play there a fair bit

[patmould93]

I'll reply to the other ones after school... lunch just finished

[patmould93]

No worries.

Well if you don't, you can always find me on here (: and that would be muchly appreciated!
Mostly want to get a VR to show up my mates. One has a 1986 VL Calais and the other a '97 Nissan Bluebird SSS and I want to give them a run for their money (:<

yeah you'd want to be showing them up, especially the VL calais... Is the calais dumped on 22 inch chrome rims? haha

If it has a good service history and you keep the maintance up chances are you wont have to fork out big to keep it going. Ive been running my vr6 making $70 a week, and have spent most of that on little mods (manage to scab fuel money from parents/friends ect when im taxiing them around which is like 80% of the time). If (well when i guess, you have to be ready for it) things break the actual parts for most of the things are actually pretty cheap (like heatercore is less then 50, timing chain kits are only a couple hundred, same with clutch), its the labour that will rape your wallet. Theres a lot of information out there about how to do practically anything to the vr6, some good detailed guides on timing chains ect, so really if your willing to get stuck in, spend some hours swearing and trying to figure out wtf youve done wrong and learn a heap about your car, you can fix most of the common problems up pretty cheaply. Dont let the horror stories put you off. Do learn from peoples mistakes though (eg, if timing chains are reallly bad, dont keep driving till it slips and destroys valves ect)

I got my VR6 from Sydney aswell, id recommend printing out a few adds and taking a look at a couple if you can, incase the one you're really interested turns out to be a no go. I guess NSW->QLD is a bit further then to VIC and we spent a weekend there and did a couple other things aswell, but came home with a completely different vr6 to the one i had basically planned on getting (it was sold days before our flights where booked...)

Good luck!

Thanks man,

Yeah I don't know how confident I'd be at doing all that myself, I'd probably be pretty **** but if worst comes to worst and I run out of money then that might be the go, I've got a few contacts and my best mate and his dad have a ridiculous amount of tools and stuff. You bought yours when it had done just under 100,000km from memory yeah? I just don't know how common it is for the clutch and timing chain job to be done around 150,000km, but thats what cicca was saying happened to his one when he bought it within a few months.