Need Advice

Hi, I'm new to the forums. Anyway, I've been looking at this 91 3000gt. It's got a ton of features, and is probably the nicest looking one I've seen. The guy is asking a very good price. The problem is, it has 165k miles. However, he says it has a new engine, new brakes. I was wondering how this car will fair as to maintenance since I don't really know much about cars? Do you think it's a good buy and what problems will possibly come up? Thanks.

That about the most miles that I’ve ever heard of on a 3K. I know of a few others that are almost there, so that car is venturing into uncharted territory. At the minimum, you’ll want a mechanic to go over the car and let you know of any obvious problems he can find. Since it has so many new parts, you might be getting a pretty good deal. But, have it checked out and good luck.

just remember that new parts and old parts really dont go together :bandit:

from what ive heard after about 120-140k miles alot of stuff on the vr4 start wearing out. so thats prolly why it has all the new stuff? how much is he asking?

To give you some insight...
my 91 VR4 has 104k on it. About 50-60k on the engine, about 7k on the tranny, new clutch.

However, around this mileage, the steering rack is starting to go ($700 from mitsu), the ECU just went ($850 from mitsu), shocks are shot, 60k tuneup time is fast approaching, tires cost me $1100, etc etc etc.

Now I'm not saying this will happen to your car, but when you get up in the miles, these things happen.