I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[Luke.]

edc said:

Picked up my Boxster S today 2000 in light blue, sub 60k miles, hard top, dension ipod thing, dark blue/black leather, ccodeolour cod

Pics?
Price?
Pleased?

[edc]

Pics to come. Pleased so far. Paid less than £8k but more than £7k. Colour looks great in the sun.

[dibblecorse]

edc said:

Pics to come. Pleased so far. Paid less than £8k but more than £7k. Colour looks great in the sun.

Git, I can see me going Boxster S next ....... looking forward to the pics ....

[edc]

Can't remember how to add pics in the post and they're too big to use the upload image function on PH but here's a link to a couple of pics.

Edited by edc on Tuesday 6th March 20:12

[Luke.]

anonymous said:

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Would still go for the S mind you. After all, a bit of tinkering is part of the fun. Sort of.

Ever get your roof fixed?

[Globs]

Luke. said:

anonymous said:

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Would still go for the S mind you. After all, a bit of tinkering is part of the fun. Sort of.

Ever get your roof fixed?

I think when i _finally_ get one I'll go for the non-S model, simply for lower costs. I'll just have to carry more speed into the corners

[ajh38]

I love my S, honestly don't know what I'd change it for aside from a 987. I'd like a 911 but think the 996 looks a bit odd in cabriolet form and the 997 is a bit more than I spend on my cars!

[Luke.]

Globs said:

I think when i _finally_ get one I'll go for the non-S model, simply for lower costs. I'll just have to carry more speed into the corners

Not sure the costs really are that much lower, brakes and tyres aside.

[Globs]

Luke. said:

Globs said:

I think when i _finally_ get one I'll go for the non-S model, simply for lower costs. I'll just have to carry more speed into the corners

Not sure the costs really are that much lower, brakes and tyres aside.

Insurance, road tax, purchase price, petrol
It all adds up - perhaps even to another holiday a year.

[Luke.]

Globs said:

Luke. said:

Globs said:

I think when i _finally_ get one I'll go for the non-S model, simply for lower costs. I'll just have to carry more speed into the corners

Not sure the costs really are that much lower, brakes and tyres aside.

Insurance, road tax, purchase price, petrol
It all adds up - perhaps even to another holiday a year.

Nope, not buying it.

[edc]

£118 6 months road tax. Didn't even bother getting insurance quotes between the 2.7 and 3.2. Mileage difference on my policy is all of about £16 per 1000 miles. Fuel, well don't know yet but have no other Boxster to compare to so it can't be bad then!

[Rude-boy]

anonymous said:

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I had this issue and went left field

[Luke.]

anonymous said:

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Blimey, sounds like a bit of a kerfuffle.

[edc]

Updated my post above with pics!

[dibblecorse]

EDC, thats looks like a cracking car, those wheels go so well with that colour, enjoy mate, hope it goes as well as it looks ...

[raceboy]

Just bought some 'Poverty Pork' for the Mrs, shifted her MX5 at the weekend and pick up a 2000 2.7 Boxster tonight.

A few things need doing on it, but looks very straight and tidy and loaded with options, and files of history, as it happened I had a 2000 boxster pricelist knocking about and it cost the 1st buyer somewhere near £47k, 12 years later and it's a decimal place different.

One question for you other 'Pork on a Budget' owners....'N' tyres, worth it or not?

[Rude-boy]

raceboy said:

One question for you other 'Pork on a Budget' owners....'N' tyres, worth it or not?

Lots of threads on this topic.

Personally I fit N rated as I tend to do a lot of miles at a reasonable speed and have a funny notion that Porsche engineers might have a better idea of what the best rubber to fit for the purpose is. I also can't be bothered with having to remember to tell the insurance that they are not the N rated tyres and deal with whatever that throws up.

Others say it is a waste of money and that there are some non N rated tyres that are better than the N rated ones.

Final thoughts are that there is very little difference in prince (unless you like Linglong ditchfinders) so you might as well fit them. For me, it would be the deciding factor between two otherwise identical cars as to which I would buy.

[Roberty]

raceboy said:

I had a 2000 boxster pricelist knocking about and it cost the 1st buyer somewhere near £47k, 12 years later and it's a decimal place different.

£47k! Are you sure?

I have a 2002 Boxster S, It's fully loaded with options and I would of thought it may have been in that sort of ball park but a 2.7 2 years earlier?

Anyway it's a great car I hope you both enjoy it and personally I'd stick with the N rated rubber.

[RESSE]

Wife's 1999 Boxster had it's 62,000 mile service last week (not had the bill/invoice yet) .

Bad news
£100+ for driver's side sun visor (retaining spring/clip had broken and for some reason you cannot replace this - you have to buy the complete visor assembly).

Good news
Apart from fuel filter and some fluids all is well, so I treated her to a soft-top refurb (separate thread on this), replaced the ashtray with an "oddments" tray (£20.00 - lovely) and spurged £100 on some coloured crested wheel centres.

[dibblecorse]

Resse

Where did you get the oddments tray for the centre console ? ??