Hey all like i have stated many times this is my first import. I keep hearing people raving about buying JDM parts for my car here are some reasons may be someone can help me seperate fact from fiction.

1) People in japan switch motors after 50K... ( if this is true than why would they do this since we run outs to about 4X that time?)

2) Since the car is from japan the engine does not ahve a "speed " cap to limit how fast the car can go..

3) if u buya JDM engine u have to use highe octane gas cause they use higher octane gas in china.

Are any of these true and can anyone tell me why peope INSIST on buying JDM thanksss

 

duplicate post of the one above... DELETE.

 

foe sho........

 

This is worthy of two threads.

 

They change their engines because emissions are more strict over there and their VTEC dies @ 4800...I mean 48 months

DeJa Vu

 

I bought fr33ways JDM ash tray. Its Pimp tight.

 

JDM and China, shows how much you know....

 

Thats hilarious...rofl.

 

1.

Im not sure about that but remember not all Japanese Cars were made in Japan they do have USA and Europe Plants.

2.

Supposedly not i really dont know.

3.

Last time i checked JDM mean Japanese Domestic Market. What the hell does that have to do with China? And yes asia uses a higher octane gas.

4.

People insist on buying JDM because it is Different. Just like why some places in Asia want to have our USDM parts reaon being because it different.

 

I had to ride on the bottom of a FedEx plane for that, you're lucky I needed the $93 I sold it to you for. What an ash tray though!

 

JDM= Type R

 

I guess you needed something to ash your blunts in!

 

Apparently some of the people posting in this thread aren't aware that octane ratings aren't the same all over the world, either.

 

Tell us Pat, teach me like the little school girl I am..

 

I would love to have an ample supply of the jungle juice they have overseas!
. . .

 

I told you to keep this to phone conversations

 

Battery died..

 

JDM FTW!!!!!

 

Umm..

 

that intercooler is fake. true story.

 

So is most of the car.. Well, at least the front fascia.

 

LHD FTmegaL

 

Is your avatar a middle-schooler?

 

Move along, nothing to see here.

 

isnt that honda parked a little too far out?

 

yea, should be within the white lines.

I still dont get how a left hand drive boosted s2k, is considered JDM

 

Now do you see?

 

guys....hellllooooo ! your cars came from japan. seriously they were produced in japan not here....hilarious. The nissan maxima wasnt produced in the US till the 2004 model year....all others are "JDM" if thats what you wanna call it. so if ya got sold a jdm part ya got ripped off cause they are all "JDM".


change motors after 50000 ? umm no. my brothers friends girlfriend is japanese and they dont do that.

 

they were made in japan, but they werent being driven in japan.

 

yep, mine was from Oppama
look at this pic i found

 

Oh, and JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market. Keyword: Domestic. Was the USDM Maxima sold in Japan? No. It was sold in the US, and nowhere else.

 

I'm for Oppama and that pic..

 

You like? Too bad there weren't any 4th gen ones. I'd background that hoe so fast.

 

Haha.. I hear ya man.

 

I don't care whose brothers girlfriend is Spanish, they swap motors out after the 3rd oil change so that we can street race each other, period.

 

That's true, lord knows what would happen if they discovered Hyper Synthetic.. We'd have to wait so much longer.

 

wow... to ask those questions... u must be a newb... but ya, none of those questions u have has any relevance to anything... if we had to change engines every 50k miles, then we wouldn't be buying japanese cars...

 

not makin sense....shes japanese and i know its japanese domestic market. what i was refferring to was that it was MADE in japan not driven there. why would you care if it was driven there ? that dosent make it better just used... their sensors wont work here neway. And swap after the 3rd oil change ? are ya nuts ? Her father is in osaka and his toyota is pushin over 100k and WELL over 3 oil changes. please copy and paste the law in japan stating that they have to do this.

 

They don't have to by law.. It has to do with higher taxes on older cars, plain and simple, so many japanese persons choose to get a newer car once they hit a certain tax bracket. Plus, most of them care about the environment..