thoughts on M6 vs XKR vs 911. £25-30k Budget

[PGNCerbera]

Plainview23 said:

Jeez, the 997 is way more of a grenade than the M6.
You're almost guaranteed an engine rebuild on the first gen C2S 997.

Super trolling right there.

[Plainview23]

PGNCerbera said:

Super trolling right there.

I'm looking to buy one at the moment, not trolling at all! It's incredibly difficult to find an early one that doesn't have something wrong with the bores. Whether it's catastrophic or not seems to be the big question.

[Plainview23]

oldnbold said:

What a complete load of rubbish. About 5% actually develop the documented problems.

Well I hope that's right, I really do!

[Plainview23]

oldnbold said:

Pal of mine purchased his immaculate '06 997 C2S with 35k miles on it and a full OPC service history for £22k earlier this year.

That's way, way below the market. Only 06 C2S OPC car is £35k.
He got an unbelievably good deal.

[oldnbold]

Plainview23 said:

oldnbold said:

What a complete load of rubbish. About 5% actually develop the documented problems.

Well I hope that's right, I really do!

Plainview23 said:

I'm looking to buy one at the moment, not trolling at all! It's incredibly difficult to find an early one that doesn't have something wrong with the bores. Whether it's catastrophic or not seems to be the big question.

Have you had the bores scopped on every car that you've looked at so far then?

That must have cost you a fair amount?

[Shaoxter]

Plainview23 said:

oldnbold said:

Pal of mine purchased his immaculate '06 997 C2S with 35k miles on it and a full OPC service history for £22k earlier this year.

That's way, way below the market. Only 06 C2S OPC car is £35k.
He got an unbelievably good deal.

He said OPC service history, I'm guessing it's not from an OPC. Still a great deal though.

[oldnbold]

Shaoxter said:

Plainview23 said:

oldnbold said:

Pal of mine purchased his immaculate '06 997 C2S with 35k miles on it and a full OPC service history for £22k earlier this year.

That's way, way below the market. Only 06 C2S OPC car is £35k.
He got an unbelievably good deal.

He said OPC service history, I'm guessing it's not from an OPC. Still a great deal though.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. It was a private sale, the car had a full and detailed OPC only service history. He did spend about 6 months waiting for the right car to pop up at the right price and travelled to see plenty before buying.

[thegreatdogwood]

oldnbold said:

blueg33 said:

Any car thats out of warranty runs that risk. But sadly it seems with the Porsche 996/997 gen 1 the risk is higer than usual. I guess the Class Action in the US is an indication that the rate of failure is higher than could be reasonably expected. Thats just IMS of course, soesnt include bore score unless cause by IMS

Therefore if you consider the risk unacceptable on a 997 buy from an OPC, a quick search reveals that low £30k's are required to do this. Or buy cheap privately, and enrol in the Hartec maintainence scheme. Pal of mine purchased his immaculate '06 997 C2S with 35k miles on it and a full OPC service history for £22k earlier this year.

A mondial warrenty or the Hartec route should leave change from £25k I guess, with the small risk that there is, greatly reduced.

Edited by oldnbold on Friday 12th December 11:09

If you live near to Hartech then happy days for sure and I would be all over a 997 at these levels.
Sadly since Porsche won't put a warranty on one over 9 years old at start of policy then you don't get much ownership on a 2006 car before you can't buy an OPC warranty and that's a whole new ballgame.

Seems to me that pricing is directly reflecting how close to coming out of OPC warranty the car is, as no doubt the issues have got some really bad press