Living in Japan, buying a car, have some ?'s....

[jarfykk]

Hey,

I'm in Japan right now and I am purchasing a '93 Honda Prelude (base model, same as U.S. Prelude Si). Does anyone have any website (googled but little luck) with reviews/service bulletines/etc. for the JDM version of it (or even U.S. I guess). In Japanese or English would be okay (prefer English, takes me a year and a day to read stuff in Japanese).

Also, anyone bought a car here before. I'm versed in all the official tax (shakken and annual) and so forth, have my parking taken care of, basically all the normal stuff. But I'm wondering if there is stuff I havent considered, or any advice for that matter. For reference I'm in Gunma-ken.

Thanks.

 

[pillage2001]

How much are you getting the car for??

 

[OokiiNeko]

If you get into an accident, don't go anywhere until police arrive. If you cannot hanasu with them so well, ask police for interpreter and make sure your side of what happened is taken down. Take lots of pictures.
Assuming you are gaijin, so other party may be tempted to bullsh!t.
If you are new driver in Japan, put that little yellow and green arrow looking thing on your car (magnetic vinyl). This does indeed affect outcome in car accident cases, as when other guy tells judge, "Stupid gaijin turned right in front of me!" Judge will say to guy,"Yes, but he had the 'I am a dumb*ss gaijin sticker on his car where you could see it, so you should have realized he would turn in front of you and stopped yourself.' "

And don't forget to tell all the fine folks here at ATOT how many kilometers on car when you say how much you paid for it.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Gaijin means dumbass noobie? That's sweet!

 

[HOWITIS]

its means non japanese, which means dumbass noob to them

 

[ApacheXMD]

if i was in japan, i would get a R34 Skyline GTR...
...if i had money..

-patchy

 

[jarfykk]

Car has 90,000 kilometers on it. Well maintained to boot (12 month warranty from dealer on most everything). Price is quite good (even for Japan) so just go look at the Kelly Blue Book, divide by 5, and there ya go (justabout). Damn thing has shakken paid for only 17months....

And don't forget to tell all the fine folks here at ATOT how many kilometers on car when you say how much you paid for it.

 

[Doggiedog]

Hey what are you doing in Gunma-ken?

I worked in Gunma for JET after graduating college. I was in Tone-mura in the north east corner. Seems like an eternity ago.