Neil.H

I'm off to look at an '02 euro import tomorrow and have a few questions maybe someone could help with:

Where can I find the VIN?

Apart from the alarm and shorter warranty, is there anything else I need to know about euro imports? It came from Antwerp apparently.

I think the car has it's hard top fitted, is it worth asking them to remove it so I can check the condition of the soft-top, or would this be OTT?

It has a full red interior, which I quite like, anyone had any problems with keeping this looking good?

The cars up at 21k, what sort of price should I be looking to offer for it? Does that sound like a fair price for an '02 GT import with 11k miles (at a non-Honda dealer)?

Anything other advice?

Any help very welcome!

Cheers

PS I did a search but found no specific answers.

ADP

ask as many questions as you want! I would want to see the hood working etc

also look to see if he has bought locking wheel nuts and mats for it, other than that I cant see any other probs(I have a euro import and would buy another any day of the week)

AP

Lurking Lawyer

The VIN will be on a plate which is (IIRC) at the front of the engine bay. It will be a long alphanumeric sequence beginning JHMAP, I think.

Other than the lack of alarm and 60K warranty, the only difference between UK and EU cars is the lack of breakdown cover.

Price sounds not unreasonable to me. I got

MrV

Have a good read through the technical Faq thats posted somewhere at the bottom of Neils2k's sig

Warrenty is still 3yrs but only 60,000mls

Get it AA checked or something simaler I now your buying it from a dealers but still worth the extra piece of mind for

Bassoctopus

here it is

with MrV get it checked for accident damage

Nick Graves

Try the bottom corner of the windscreen!

Gazzer

I think it is over priced, here are the Whatcar valuations which I think are a reasonable mark to go against......

Prices:

Dealer

eSeM

I paid that for mine (also from Antwerp) when it was 6 months old and it came with hardtop and CD-changer.


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If it is immac. and average/low miles then

Bassoctopus

with Gazzer on the price.

Neil.H

Thanks guys.

Mark - it's a Berlina Black, I see too many Silverstones around my way (well, 2 of them )and too many silver cars in general so I don't fancy one of those, nice though they are! I saw an S2000 at the MotorXpo in Canary Wharf last year in this exact spec and made my mind up then that I wanted one just like it Test drove one last summer (Nurb Blue) but I didn't get chance to give it a proper run, it was 20 minutes of town driving and the guy kept telling me how good it is to cruise around with the top down

How do I go about getting an AA check? Do I just phone them and meet them at the garage?

Great idea, will ask them to do that if I put a deposit down.

Very interesting. I was thinking of offering