Austarion

Posted: **Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:00 pm**

hey dudes, my names nick and I live in Melbourne, currently drive a lightly modified CC GSR (fmic zorst injectors etc) and I've been thinking of selling it recently and buying either a JA or JB Starion :D

I'm a real starion newbie so can people tell me what to look for when looking at them, tell-tale signs of rust things like that? The car I buy will be a daily driver, not so much a restoration job, so I'd wanna purchase one in drivable road-worthy type condition!

thanks guys

-Nick

Posted: **Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:17 pm**

This was asked recently. You may find some answers in this thread:

http://austarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4176

Posted: **Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:29 pm**

What Cookie said...

Posted: **Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:11 pm**

When checking for rust:

Check the all along the bottom of the door sills

Check the the bottom of the quarter panels

Check along the top of the tailgate where the hinges sit

Check just infront of the windscreen, theres a black plastic grill which if you lift up can reveal some money saving decisions.

Also pays to have a look under the wheel archs

You'd be lucky to find a starion without some sort of rust but just make sure it's fixable :)

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:17 pm**

thanks, also wondering.. were any starions aussie delivered, i'm assuming there would have to be some, or are they all imported?

I'm really a starion newbie so thanks in advance for answering my questions :D

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:18 pm**

JA, JB and JD starions were Australian delivered.

JA - around 1250 sold in Australia.
JB - around 250 sold in Australia.
JD - less than 100 sold in Australia.. 86 of them I believe.

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:28 pm**

thanks cookie :)

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:49 pm**

is cookie a wookie who fell into a tub of blue dye?

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:02 pm**

tmz_99 wrote:is cookie a wookie who fell into a tub of blue dye?

LOL! wtf?

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:23 pm**

yeah that was me that started that thred i think

Posted: **Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:00 pm**

Cookiemonster wrote:
tmz_99 wrote:is cookie a wookie who fell into a tub of blue dye?
LOL! wtf?

I watched the revenge of the sith last night and noticed the resembelance.. and really.. "cookie" and "wookie" rhyme.. :| cookie the blue wookie ? :P
maybe you ran to earth becasue of mockery by your brown bretheren, or mayhaps to steal our starion technology so all wookies could benifit?

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Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:32 pm**

Draff wrote:yeah that was me that started that thred i think

So you ended up getting one? The red one in your avatar?

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:38 pm**

thats a stazz??

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:41 pm**

Doesn't look like a starion to me. Tail-lights are missing the reverse cutouts in the bottom left of the light?

Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:24 am**

Oops my bad, didn't look at it closely.. Tail lights are missing a row and the back window is on the wrong angle

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