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I'm planning to buy a Honda VTR 250. Post 1997 model (One that looks like the Ducati Monster). What should I look out for before and when buying?

So update: After the last "fix" with the battery terminals, it worked fine for a little while but then the issue came back again. Had to rev a lot for it to get moving in reverse. Tried @Twin Turbo 's suggestion and did a complete ATF oil replacement cleaning the filters and everything. But yeah found no luck with that either. At this point I figured I had to bite the bullet and take it to a garage. After some research I found that applying a "repair kit" can solve the the problem but also found that the procedure done in many places in SL can be somewhat sketchy and provided no guarantee as well. It also costs almost the same as the amount it takes to just put in a new gearbox. So that's what ended up happening. I replaced the gearbox for a reconditioned one and that fixed it. Been a few days now and it feels okay so far. Unfortunately I still didn't manage to find out exactly why this happened in the first place. All I found was that two of the old gearbox mounts (top left and bottom) were damaged and had to be replaced. But those could've been damaged after the issue started happening. All in all the whole situation ended up costing me around 1.7 lakhs which is a bit ridiculous but that's the situation these days I guess. TLDR: Had to replace the gearbox and the issue might be related to damaged gearbox mounts

@rajika4ever, @Davy, @Hyaenidae Can this somehow be related to corrosive battery terminals? I've heard this can "sometimes" cause transmission issues. We have the same model clocked at 160k and this exact issue started happening to me yesterday. The battery did indeed had slightly corroded terminals. Cleaned the air filter and recharged the battery and it started to shift fine again. Working okay so far. Will update any events.

Looking for something in the 25 lakh to 30 lakh price range. Preferably a petrol with auto transmission. Hoping to daily drive. So good fuel consumption, reliability and availability of parts are also a big plus. So far, I've been eyeing the Nissan N16 and Cefiro A33. N16 seems good but don't really know what kind of common issues it can get and I heard the Cefiro can be awful in fuel consumption. Edit: How is the spare parts availability for the Cefiro A33?