1998 Porsche

*DEPOSIT TAKEN - AWAITING COLLECTION*

This is my gorgeous porsche 996.1 C4 coupe manual 3.4 (non sunroof) with full factory aero kit in metallic black with graphite grey interior, first registered in October 1998. I have owned this car for just over 3 years and it has just recently turned 100,000 miles. In my ownership i have done around 6,000 miles in the 3 years that i have owned it, and less than 1000 miles this year. It really doesn't get driven enough, and the main reason for the sale is that i need to upgrade my daily driver in the next few months as i will be doing more miles in it due to work commitments. I don't really want to use the porsche as a daily driver as i feel it would be a shame to put lots of miles on her, but I'm sure she could cope with it. The car is MOTed till December 2021 with no advisories at the last MOT. It has full service history at either porsche main dealer or specialist independent, the Last service was carried out at RPM specialist cars in Knaresborough with car on 99,300 miles in December 2019. Please see full list of service work undertaken on car listed further below.

As anyone who knows one thing about these car, the Achilles heal on the 996 is said to be the IMS bearing which affected all 996's and boxsters along with some 997s. The early 3.4 996's had the more robust dual row IMS bearing which only suffered around 1 percent failure rate, and the general consensus on these 3.4 engines is that if the bearing is going to fail it will probably have failed below the 70,000 mile range. Some people choose to replace the IMS for an aftermarket solution, but the jury is still out as to whether there is any real benefit of doing this with the dual row bearing, as the failure rate is low and the bearing is much more robust than the single row bearing fitted to the latter cars. This car has the original dual row bearing fitted and is showing no signs of problems. I currently have a magnetic sump plug fitted and the oil is inspected for particles every time the car is serviced to allow monitoring of the situation. Replacement IMS bearing kits can be bought and fully fitted for around £1300 on these cars, so if you are going to sleep better at night knowing that you have an after market IMS fitted, then please budget this into your calculations.

The car isn't perfect, but she is a good honest example of a 996 with many of the common problems sorted. Please remember that she is over 20 years old and has 100k on the clock, so you aren't coming to look at a brand new car. The paint has the odd small stone chip and mark that you might expect on a car of this age, but overall its good. interior is also in good condition.

Spec and options:

18 inch split rim sport classic wheels with continental sport contact tyres all round, rears nearly new, fronts approx 5mm tread.

Full 996.1 factory aero kit

Graphite grey full leather interior with electric heated hard back sports seats,

Headlamp washers

997 gear shifter fitted December 2017. Much improved gear change over the standard 996 shifter, gear knob replaced with alcantara trim.

PB fully adjustable coil overs fitted September 2020

Porsche 993 RS semi solid engine mounts fitted December 2020

Momo mod. 07 steering wheel

Rear wiper delete

Gloria 1kg seat mounted fire extinguisher fitted June 2020

Wheel spacers 15mm to rear, 7mm front

Replacement coffin arms to front and rear September 2020

Top Gear mild sports silencers fitted August 2018

Pagid brake discs and pads replaced all round May 2019

Rear tyres replaced December 2020

Front tyres approx 5mm tread

Original porsche cdr22 stereo with 6cd changer in frunk. The stereo is sometimes temperamental and takes a few minutes sometimes before it decides that it wants to turn on.

Service history

28/11/98 Dick Lovett Porsche 1,936 miles

25/11/99 H. R Owen Porsche 18,869 mile

06/11/00 Dick Lovett Porsche 20,904 mile

13/03/02 Porsche Solihull 34,533 mile

26/06/03 Porsche Liverpool 47,591 mile

16/05/05 .P.C.T Porsche 62,426 miles

24/02/10 CMD Porsche 76,259 miles

06/05/11 Porsche Cardiff 78,449 mile

23/03/12 Porsche Cardiff 79,432 miles

11/03/13 Porsche Cardiff 80,425 miles

15/05/14 Porsche Cardiff 81,312 miles

18/06/16 FUS 87,996 miles

19/05/17 Southside Auto 94,246 miles

18/06/18 RPM Porsche 97,363 miles

10/12/19 RPM Porsche 99,294 miles

Brake fluid last changed 16/10/19 @ 99,294

Transmission fluid changed 18/06/18 @ 97,363

2 sets of keys

Message me for Link to walk round video