Thread: 2009 D3 "Barn find" - 2,114 km

Originally Posted by garrycol

But it has been in a garage not a barn, so why is it a Barn Find?

Maybe Barney found it?

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Also, same for grey-market imports. A couple of years ago we were going to buy an Elgrand and went to look at some recent imports. Every single one had been wildly wound back - the seller/importer had bodged the Japanese records they knew the meaning of, but the other docs in Japanese that they couldn't read and didn't understand showed the real kms. And I'd been suspicious in any case, because a search on Goo-net showed that there actually weren't many low Km cars around in Japan - whilst 10 years ago the Japanese might've turned their cars over at low ks, post-GFC they don't. And I'd also seen my family's cars conveniently get odo breakages when it was time to do the shaken (the very tough Japanese roadworthy test designed to make it easier to buy a new car than "repair" an older one).

Also: Buyer beware in NZ. All Insurance write-offs in NSW, automatically become statutory write-offs and cannot be registered in Australia, even though they may be reparable. They are bought at Auction and shipped OS, often to NZ.
Another example of shonk, is vehicles that have been driven into the ground, which are stripped for parts and their Identities transposed to a better example, which may have been written off or even stolen.