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In france, there is only 1k€ difference between registering a uk and jpsec car.
There is a similar red rx7 for sale in France for 10k£ which hasn\'t sold in 6 months...

There are 4 uk rx7 dor sale since a few months...
I just count for one, don\'t forget other millions of French and oversea people
Back to the thread, I\'ll have updates from trading standard.

Sorry I never said I was a dealer, I bought it like a private buyer.
I purposed him to exchange the car with their supra so I was very flexible.
This was the next day I bought the car but he delayed the exchange two times and finally cancelled it.
He probably doesn\'t want to take it back because he knows it will be difficult to sell it again at this price.
I\'m already in contact with some sollicitors. I\'ll phone trading  standards monday and I\'ll see.

I forgot to say, he\'s not just a trader but it\'s a japanese car importer and had 3 skyline r34 in stock and has sold plenty of them since several years so there is little chance he didn\'t know and if he didn\'t he should have accepted yo refund me because he did a fault in not knowing correctly what he was selling.
He has never mention me he didn\'t know after I told him...

He\'s a japanese car importer since a long time, he has sold x0 of Skyline and still have 2 in stock, there is little chance he didn\'t know. He\'s the trader and has to know what he\'s selling and to describe fairly the car and not selling me a total different one...

The car was a fresh import, the trader (jap prestige & performance) applied for the v5, he just needed few more days to receive it.

It was written GTT in the advert and finally in the receipt, he\'s a reputable car trader so I had no reason to be suspicious as there isn\'t any significative differences in the expert. I\'m a private buyer, I should not have to be aware of all the differences between a GT25 and a GTT but he has to know and has to tell me and he didn\'t do anything of that and write himself it was a GTT in the receipt...:flamed

There are quite a few differences the most obvious being the VIN plate and then the 3 clocks / gauges on the top centre dash. My French customers all ask for the V5 to be scanned and emailed to them, this would have also pointed out you were being sold a wrong un.
Being a trader myself you do have to be a lot more carefull selling to private customers but that\'s no major problem as it\'s easier to have happy customers than angry ones.
The dealer may simply not have noticed, are you also not a dealer? I buy from all types of sellers and i know that when i buy from dealers i have no legal rights if it goes wrong as Trading Standards would say "well you should know better" :rolleyes:
I\'d ask the dealer to exchange it for another car for you as you\'ll have a lot more luck than looking for an outright refund. I hope all goes well for you, if you want to email some details of the car i have some good contacts in Germany who buy cars exclusively for drifting / track use so i may be able to help you.
Dave. esp.ltd@hotmail.co.uk

The trader probably knew that the car wasn\'t a GTT but even if he didn\'t know, he still doesn\'t want to refund when I told him. He clearly written that it was a Nissan Skyline GTT in the receipt so hopefully "well you should know better" would be for him.

Without sounding harsh, if there are differences with interior trim, brakes etc, how did you not noitce when you viewed the car?

Because it\'s my first skyline and I tried searching differences between a gt25 and gtt after having bought the car as I feeled that there was no LSD and that seems strange to me for a GTT.
He\'s an importer since long ago and has sold plenty of Skyline. I had no reason to think the car could not be what it was in the advert, what he told me and what it was written in the receipt because it looks like a GTT from the exterior and the engine was from a GTT.
The receipt clearly states it\'s a Nissan Skyline GTT and it\'s not so he\'s in the wrong and has to refund me.
Differences between them are major, price would be half for this kind of car and finally I can\'t register it in France.

Was it also written on the receipt \'sold as seen\'?

No, just "Nissan Skyline GTT"
I\'ve just sent an email to trading standards, we\'ll see...

Not knowing a lot about Skylines, is it possibly the seller didn\'t know it didn\'t start life as a GTT?  Are chassis numbers different on the GTT and GT25 models?  

Does it matter it has been converted?  Registration problems in France?

He has sold a lot of r34 skyline so he should know them pretty well but if he didn\'t know that, I think he still should have accept to refund me when I told him that because he sold me a GTT as stated in the receipt and in fact it\'s a GT25 with a GTT engine.
There is a different engine code in the VIN plate between GTT and GT25.
The problem is differences between them are engine, gearbox, diff, arms, brakes and some parts in the interior. The only thing I know for sure that has been converted is the engine and yes there will be registration problems because the current engine is not the one corresponding to the car.
I also paid the price for a GTT nothing surprisingly cheap if it was a gt25 converted...

you got a link of the advert you brought it from? or the txt from the add?
 
Rob

I don\'t have any record of the advert but in the receipt it\'s clearly written "nissan skyline gtt" hopefully for me in this case and it\'s a gt25 (N/A) with a gtt (turbo) engine.

Nothing about a FD but I\'ll may be find some advices here from club members
I\'m French and I bought a Nissan skyline GTT from a car trader in UK. He gave me a receipt with "Nissan Skyline GTT" written.
When we arrive in France, we discover in fact that it was a gt25 (N/A) with a gtt (turbo) engine in it
The trader doesn\'t want to refund me, doesn\'t respond to my calls and  I\'m still waiting the v5 because he had to send me it by post.
Would I be right if I take it to a court as he sold me car like a gtt (written in the receipt) and in fact it\'s not.
What would be the procedures ? How long would it take, cost... ? (If someone is a lawer )

I\'ll send u a text as I could be also interested

it\'s an import not a uk one