The 300k mile UK 996.1

[was8v]

http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=108053&highli...

3.4 on original engine and no rebuild.

Thought these were supposed to have a chocolate engine

[Moosh]

was8v said:

http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=108053&highli...

3.4 on original engine and no rebuild.

Thought these were supposed to have a chocolate engine

That's only what the 996 haters want you to believe. Long live the 996

[was8v]

Brave statement: The 996.1 is rapidly heading towards being the pick of 996 and 997 Carreras.

[ORD]

In VFM terms, yes.

[poppopbangbang]

To be fair it's only on 286K at the moment - still opportunity for it to soil itself in a spectacular manner before it gets to 300K

[Wozy68]

Moosh said:

was8v said:

http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=108053&highli...

3.4 on original engine and no rebuild.

Thought these were supposed to have a chocolate engine

That's only what the 996 haters want you to believe. Long live the 996

I'm not so sure there are that many early 996 haters out there anymore. I loooove the early ones and that's from an air cooled owner.
Long live the early VERY undervalued 911 996.

[medieval]

Can't believe I might have got it right for once - I bought an early 996 as a bit of a snotter to be honest but following some very positive comments from my Indy when serviced and inspected I have spent a limited more on the perishables eg coffin arms, coil packs etc and if has been fantastic all round.

Great cars that are rather unfairly maligned to my mind

[EGTE]

Good hint in that 911uk.com about using EPS coffin arms instead of OEM. They're clearly well-proven!!

[poppopbangbang]

EGTE said:

Good hint in that 911uk.com about using EPS coffin arms instead of OEM. They're clearly well-proven!!

The EPS arms are the control arms rather than coffin arms. Technically they are not anywhere near as good as the OE items because they are a bush rather than a spherical bearing and therefore allow an amount of uncontrolled movement on this pickup point but due to low life of the OE component and the fact that a bit of compliance in this area is offset by the reduced compliance in the toe arms and track rods they don't actually make any perceivable difference to performance but last a good 100K miles without much fuss.

These are not a performance item but are a durability and it could be argued a comfort item. Certainly on slicks with big cornering G they lack of solid link they create would cause a geometry change.... on a road car with PS2s on it that does 40K a year it's not much of an issue.... especially at 70 quid a pop!

[DanoS4]

I'm chuffed with mine. Yes, mine's a C4. But it's in Basalt, Hartech rebuilt engine. FSH and sports exhaust :
No intention of selling (it's a keeper), and if it's price is going north, then that's an added bonus

Oh and just over 100k on the clock (miles)

Edited by DanoS4 on Tuesday 1st December 22:01

[sm34uk]

Mine's a later 996.2 with a miserly 172k on it before a piston ring went (see separate thread for that) in green, with a green interior. Other than the usual consumables, and I include coffin arms in that, it has served me really well. After a wash and a polish, she even looks half decent; certainly need a bit more than that to get me looking as good.