Where do all the high mileage 911s go?
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I've just sold my 29 year old 911 with the mileage rapidly approaching 150k. But I very rarely see Porsches for sale at over 150k miles on the clock. I can't believe they all get scrapped, my 911 still went great( I drove it most days for over 2 years as my main car) and even if it needed a full engine rebuild in the next few years it would surely be cost effective to do it rather than scrap the car and sell it as parts?
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whiteonyx said:
my 912 has done 202,000 miles and is well looked after, many classics are being "clocked" or being mis advertised, buy a high miler who is telling the truth with all mot's rather than something that seems to be too good to be true
That's a very low miler for a Porsche last manufactured in the late 60s. (Any pics). There must be some mega-mile 911s out there.
Lots of aircooled cars state-side over on the Pelican Parts forum with mega mileages, 250k+ is common with quite a few over 400k and some even past half a million miles.
With the vast majority on the original engine and some never opened! 150k is low mileage :-)
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technic...
With the vast majority on the original engine and some never opened! 150k is low mileage :-)
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technic...
Swampy1982 said:
there's a fair few on autotrader wit 100k+ miles
I've just been perusing some of the 996s on there at over 100k miles, a few of which look quite tempting at their asking prices and aren't too far away from me. I suppose it's easy to dismiss them with regard to the mileage but it's worth reading the blurb, there's a decent looking Targa amongst them which had a replacement engine fitted 38k miles ago. I think the highest milage 996 I noticed on there today is at around 127k miles, but as the OP asks, where are the really high mileage examples...?
Possibly sitting in mileage correction companies hands?
I know the 996 stores the mileage in more than just the clocks so a decent tech could interrogate that but if the correcting company knows their stuff then they will have done that too.
I know this as I overheard a guy bragging about how many he had done, I then spoke to a 911 tech who confirmed that he was correct about where it is stored.
I know the 996 stores the mileage in more than just the clocks so a decent tech could interrogate that but if the correcting company knows their stuff then they will have done that too.
I know this as I overheard a guy bragging about how many he had done, I then spoke to a 911 tech who confirmed that he was correct about where it is stored.
I guess there's a balance between low mileage and service / MOT history - obviously once the mileage has been "corrected" any kind of history goes out of the window. I figured that anything like this would be bought more on condition than mileage - I'd far rather have a car on 200,000 miles that has history and condition showing it's been looked after properly, than a car of the same age showing 50k but with no history.
droopsnoot said:
I guess there's a balance between low mileage and service / MOT history - obviously once the mileage has been "corrected" any kind of history goes out of the window. I figured that anything like this would be bought more on condition than mileage - I'd far rather have a car on 200,000 miles that has history and condition showing it's been looked after properly, than a car of the same age showing 50k but with no history.
Same here droopsnoot. If the mileage on the car doesn't match up with what's on the old MOTs tickets, a dodgy vendor would have no choice but to ditch the paperwork - I wouldn't even bother going to see any car like that. The thing is, who buy's these 'corrected' cars..?On some of the other Porsche forums members often post about their P&Js which have done way over 200k miles and they're still good usable cars, I wouldn't have a problem buying such a car provided it's history stacked up and everythign which needed doing had been done.
Mileage recording for mot's has only occurred for a few years, so the ritual clockers with these cars may just reduce the number between tests, I'd guess many are adjusted and exported or ebay'd. Considering how many of this type of car were in use daily, I'd be cautious of many, and for the apparent values, would just buy a newer one most likely. If not clocked there will be many smashed up, welded, rung bitzers cloaked in new paint.
Valid question.. I'm sure a lot do get clocked or were scrapped in the old days..but also a lot of the high mileage cars are being kept and used. Low mileage has always been for speculators and collectors so will get traded more often IMHO.. a good, high mileage car will often be bought to be used and may be kept for a longer period.
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Edited by Big Al. on Thursday 3rd December 07:37
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