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wezurii
07-03-2016, 05:07 PM
Wassup my fellow s chassis owners,

I kind of have a dilemma to keep or sell my 240sx and import another one.

Short background story.
Wanted to buy my first car, wanted it to be LHD since first car and sx.
Came to mind that the 240sx was LHD and coupe so in my book instant win, living in the netherlands there kind off wasn't a big chance to buy an LHD coupe s13.

Posted a wanted topic on a dutch sx owners forum if someone has a 240sx coupe for sale, time went by, recieved a message from this guy saying he has one, and now here we are owning one of 2 LHD s13 coupe's excluding convertibles.

Car had some problems that I know of, find out it has more then I was told, most of the problems been fixed, car is roadworthy again, registerd, insured etc.

Problems that still are there/needs to be fixed
Sunroof rust, sunroof doesn't work
Some more minor things.
The interior has been stripped excluding the dash, door panels and seats etc.

My plans for the car nice again and making the interior complete again or at least for 98%, now these parts aren't the easiest to find in good condition and since we didn't get the coupe official the interior parts for the coupe are even worse to get.

And that is just to get it to be a nice base so excluding coilovers, 5 lug swap etc.

Now my question is what would you guys do.
Trying to source parts for the sx and make it nice again ?
or
Sell and keep the cost relative normal by playing quits or slight loss and look for another/better base for my ideas ?

Let me know what you guys think, maybe it can help me even more to make a decision

Future240
07-05-2016, 09:27 AM
Approved thread.


If you have the money to buy the parts keep it. Part of the fun of owning an S-chassis is sourcing parts. You can rebuild the interior. Save up and see if shop can fix the sunroof.

ixfxi
07-05-2016, 09:40 AM
weld the sunroof closed

get interior off ebay

wezurii
07-07-2016, 05:29 AM
Yeah that is part of the problem, the parts I am looking for are either not in the condition I want it to be, or are hard to find at least in europe.

So that's why I am doubting to sell and buy another full interior, no sun roof 240sx from the US, might be cheaper to.

Still need to make a topic on the driftworks forum for parts since shipping from the US is quite expensive

Future240
07-07-2016, 06:35 AM
Yeah that is part of the problem, the parts I am looking for are either not in the condition I want it to be, or are hard to find at least in europe.

So that's why I am doubting to sell and buy another full interior, no sun roof 240sx from the US, might be cheaper to.

Still need to make a topic on the driftworks forum for parts since shipping from the US is quite expensive

I don't know a lot about importing in Europe but is buying stuff from Japan an option?

wezurii
07-07-2016, 06:54 AM
I don't know a lot about importing in Europe but is buying stuff from Japan an option?

Yeah that could be an option to, Thanks for the tip.
I am still working some things out to see what is the best choice, regarding cost efficiency etc.

jedi03
07-07-2016, 08:14 AM
I say keep it...a good body is hard to find...just look on here or ebay for the kids that strip their cars