Jap import bikes & correct mileage

[Flyingpony]

I should add, my car came with its service log book from Japan. Whilst I can't read it, dates and mileage figures are universal so I trust the mileage displayed on my car odometer, unless, between last service and entry to NZ it clocked up km upon km and got rolled back.

Motu: Yeah, a hour meter

I now know service log book's do exist, I'll will make it's a must have requirement for my next cage purchase.

So how many cars ex Japan have their service log book?

[Motu]

How many NZ new cars have their service log book?

[Indiana_Jones]

Odometer readings are irellavent,unless you are hung up on such things...especially for Jap imports.Just go on the condition of the vehicle.It could of spent it's life idling in commuter traffic,or being thrashed as a track day bike,or doing a constant speed intercity shuttle.

Yea, I was trying to tell that to my old man. It doesn't matter if the bike is over 10 years old and has done 40,000kms as long as it has been serviced and look after etc.

-Indy

[N4CR]

as with the mileage comments, my old zxr 250 was frowned upon as having 'high' kms (55k+). yet when you rode it it was much tighter and quicker than ones with 20k... it's how they are treated. hence why a high km bike don't really discourage me, it's just uneducated buyers. come ride it and make a decision then as one of hte previous posters mentioned.

i have seen quite a few with 8k or 16k on the clock that under closer inspection look to have done 50-70k. worn stuff, loose as hell box, sprockets rooted, minor corrosion etc etc. that's why when people go ooh i got a new (whatever_ with 6k its sooo mint i just laugh and say go ride a few and then ride it to make that decision on weather it's accurate or not, sometimes it is sometimes it isn't.

i had my old zxr250 serviced regularly (major engine stuff i got the shop to do) oil changed myself etc etc. hard life but looked after like a saint.. could tell the difference between same models of bikes just riding it.

[Gremlin]

It doesn't matter if the bike is over 10 years old and has done 40,000kms as long as it has been serviced and look after etc.

40k after 10 years is bugger all really... thats 4k per year. I bought my 7 around 10 years old, had 52400... I looked at it, and figured, 5240 a year, I'm going to do that in less than 3 months (which I did a lot).

I figure its a pro and con of shops v private sales. Private, no warranty, but you can talk to the seller, get to know them, an idea of history, how they might have ridden it, receipts on services, etc. Shops you get the warranty, but invariably they know nothing of the bikes past...