About to buy 1989 FZR250 - Is it a good buy?

I cannot tell, but I'll ask you this....

Single front DISC brake or dual?
Single front "Light Providing Device" or two?


(sorry for the silly wording...)

 

im fairly sure its a 2kr. the 3ln is a little less square shaped, but only a little

 

Looks like a 2kr from the low slung exhaust and box frame.

 

If it is running well then that is a good price. If you were to buy one with sub 20 000 k's in good condition you would probably be looking at 4000+ (at least) from a dealer. I bought my fzr250 in 2001 for $2000 with 22 000 k's on it - it had been down the road once and had some minor mechanical issues with it.

 

He's right - importers are notorious (no evidence - lots of rumour though) for putting the clocks back. Best advice for imports is to see if it runs nicely, and ensure everything seems in good condition (and if you are not in a position to tell then get someone who is). But as it is your dad's mate then you can probably be quite confident. I bought mine through my father-in-laws friend as well and had that bike for 30 000 glorious k's.

 

one of the theorys with the clocks.. is that they are disconected in Japan buy their ownes... simply so they can keep them!! I was told that they pay more tax?? on cars and bikes if they have many Ks on them/are old...

 

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i have heard there's some funny japanese law about high mileage/old vehicles. i heard they have to be taken off the road when they hit a certain age/mileage but your more tax theory might be more plausable

 

mine is a 93 3ln-II with an indicater 39,5XXkms on it, i am the second owner in ireland tho it was only imported late last year, i doubt the mileage is correct but i have seen less mileage on older ones so it is possible

 

Liamo, I think you theory sounds about right. Ive also heard things about cars with high mileage pay a larger tax. That is why u see many new cars in Japan, they only like to keep them for like 3 years, so they can continue to pay lower taxes (and maybe even parking?)

Anyone clarify this??

 

I'd love to see them enforcing the 'paying higher parking' thing!

Inspector - "This is a 1996 Toyota Camry!"
Owner - "No its not, its a 2003! Check the badges!!!"
Inspector - "Those are 2003 badges on a 1996 Camry!"
Owner - "2003!!!"

Perhaps this is an alternate motive for ricing up cars with newer badges etc!

On a more related note; i too have heard that when owners sell a vehicle they have to pay a tax in accordance with how many km's the vehicle has done - so when it comes time to sell the car they just wind the clock back 20-30,000 km's. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s --> Also, there seems to be some magical number like 100,000 km's... cos every single car i've ever seen imported from Japan has 70-80,000 km's on the clock. Not ONE has had over 100,000km's.

 

there's tons of used japanese cars coming into ireland, thats where most of the performance motors over here come from cause its usually young dudes buying them and cannot afford the €35+k for a new golf gti of ford focus rs so a ten yr old toyota starlet gt turbo @ around €7k is far more plausable, not to mention that the imorters are registering them as 1.3 standard starlets so the lads can insure them for neext to nothing!!

@koma: i was only lookin on the net at imported starlets yesterday for sale in ireland, and the highest mileage i saw on one was ... 99000km.
sounds like the 100k might be the magic ticket to the big japanese scrap yard in the sky ... or to the next boat for ireland where it is sold for 4 times its japanese value!!!