993 C2S or 911 SSE

[tony hale]

I have a 911 supersport in mint condition with only 62000 miles i am the 2 owner,
Do i sell and buy a 993 C2S which has been record D
crashed but is now in very good condition.
Which is the better car and why ?
Happy please?????????????

>>> Edited by tony hale on Tuesday 15th June 20:10

[clubsport]

Sorry to shatter any illusions but why should either of these very nice but not particularly exclusive cars increase in value?

[iguana]

SSE Targa private sale @ £21K?? a misprint & you mean £12k?? not a great fan of Supersports myself, but seems a good deal that price.

[rubystone]

The C2S doesn't seem very good value at £24k as a cat D. I guess the fat arse looks do hike its price a little but against that there's the fact that it has been written off.

Iguana - I'd say that £12k is pretty good money for a SSE - but if the car is indeed a Targa, the relative unpopularity of that model may account for the reasonable price being asked for it.
But it should sell at that price.

[Grifftastic]

tony hale said:

I have a 911 supersport in mint condition with only 62000 miles i am the 2 owner, Do i sell and buy a 993 C2S which has been record D crashed but is now in very good condition. Will my supersport increase in value or will the C2S increase in value. The 993 C2S Offered for £24K to me. My car is on piston heads for £21K. Happy please?????????????/

Tony,

Does the Cat D come with any service history? I am looking at a similar car, but have been told that the insurance company has the service books and has probably binned them.

Dave

[poorcardealer]

Not difficult to trace OPC service history.HPi the car, find out its previous registration numbers (cherished plates etc)...make coffee sit with phone and ring all the Porsche dealers, starting with closest to where the car was registered last and go from there.

[silver993tt]

When I contacted an independent re a car I was looking at that they had serviced in the past, they said that they could not give any information out. Reason quoted was that I wasn't the owner of the car so the info was private (data protection or something)

[rubystone]

But will the OPC give this information out? I've had trouble extracting service history/mileage confirmation out of Mercedes dealers before and I bet an OPC is even more protective...

edited due to correct poor spelling caused by using a crappy Dell laptop keyboard

>> Edited by rubystone on Tuesday 15th June 09:24

[aceparts_com]

I've found the dealers (OPC) very helpful in this respect. Although because of the data protection can't confirm any addresses, they've been happy to confirm such and such a car has been serviced at such a time and date etc.

[silver993tt]

I asked what was carried out in the service such as replacement parts etc. They wouldn't give out this info.

[clubsport]

rubystone said:

But will the OPC give this information out? I've had trouble extracting service history/mileage confirmation out of Mercedes dealers before and I bet an OPC is even more protective... edited due to correct poor spelling caused by using a crappy Dell laptop keyboard >> Edited by rubystone on Tuesday 15th June 09:24

The last time I needed this information from 2 different OPC. I sent a polite letter with a photocopy of the V5 and other proof the car was mine along with a stamp addressed envelope....I got all the relevent information back within a couple of days.. They had put XXXX through the previous owners credit card details on the invoice copies to cover thmeselves.
I was quite impressed with their efficiency to be fair.

[rubystone]

If you own the car no problems. If you don't then they are reticent to give out that much info - but depends on the OPC in question I guess.