Low mileage 3sgte's, Where to find?? Options

[HanTheMan]

Hey whats up every1...im new to the site but ive searched the forums pretty thoroughly the last few weeks for an answer to this question...

I live near Venus Auto in Sacramento and i stopped by the other day to see some front end clips with the 3sgte motor, specifically the st185,205, and 215. I really liked the prices for them, but not the mileage. The average for their clips was about 50-60 thousand miles they SAID, but theres no way of knowing if thats REALLY how much is on them. I was just wondering if anyone knew of a place where i could get one of these clips with less mileage for a reasonable price. Thanks guys

[kuya1284]

I didn't have any problems with Venus. As for the mileage, you can almost guaranteed that you're getting a low mileage clip. Unfortunately, my clip didn't come with the cluster, which is why I don't know how much was actually on it. But know that it came from Japan, it has to be b/w 30K to 50K.

All I know is that I'm happy with my clip and with their service. I know that their customer relations needs to be worked on, but they are a bunch of Asians that practice old business ethics (sell sell sell profit profit profit). You just need to get past that (slight) language barrier and you won't have any problems.


Just FYI, I paid about $3800 for my front clip.


EDIT: Oh, and the guarantee that they gave me was a START-UP guarantee. So if it didn't start after everything got plugged in, then I would have been screwed. Fortuantely, everything works perfectly like a charm (except for my radiator fan, which is currently rubbing, but still operates).

This post has been edited by kuya1284: Jan 16, 2004 - 12:29 PM