Anyone know this 996 c4s?
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Not mine... I'm keeping it a while longer now, as they are so good a car, you really can use these every day, go anywhere and everywhere in them.
Have a good look through the maintenance history and any invoices it comes with, but at 11 years old now it should have had a clutch, a set of brakes, all the A/C + cooling radiators changed, a set of plugs/coil packs, perhaps an alternator/starter motor, and a new battery would be nice. Tyres are £800 a set for Michelins
They do 22-23mpg average, 29/30 on the motorway, and still only £285 a year for the tax as they are pre March 2006.
Not the fastest 911 ever made, but still plenty quick enough for a road car, and they sound lovely too, thoroughly recommended for the price.. and it's seal grey.
Have a good look through the maintenance history and any invoices it comes with, but at 11 years old now it should have had a clutch, a set of brakes, all the A/C + cooling radiators changed, a set of plugs/coil packs, perhaps an alternator/starter motor, and a new battery would be nice. Tyres are £800 a set for Michelins
They do 22-23mpg average, 29/30 on the motorway, and still only £285 a year for the tax as they are pre March 2006.
Not the fastest 911 ever made, but still plenty quick enough for a road car, and they sound lovely too, thoroughly recommended for the price.. and it's seal grey.
RatBoy M3CSL said:
Not mine... I'm keeping it a while longer now, as they are so good a car, you really can use these every day, go anywhere and everywhere in them.
Have a good look through the maintenance history and any invoices it comes with, but at 11 years old now it should have had a clutch, a set of brakes, all the A/C + cooling radiators changed, a set of plugs/coil packs, perhaps an alternator/starter motor, and a new battery would be nice. Tyres are £800 a set for Michelins
They do 22-23mpg average, 29/30 on the motorway, and still only £285 a year for the tax as they are pre March 2006.
Not the fastest 911 ever made, but still plenty quick enough for a road car, and they sound lovely too, thoroughly recommended for the price.. and it's seal grey.
Thanks for that, I'm not sure about the clutch but I know it has just had in preparation for sale, 4 new tyres, brakes, condensers, the front lights re-done and the bonnet and bumper painted. I also think it is due a service too, which will be done.Have a good look through the maintenance history and any invoices it comes with, but at 11 years old now it should have had a clutch, a set of brakes, all the A/C + cooling radiators changed, a set of plugs/coil packs, perhaps an alternator/starter motor, and a new battery would be nice. Tyres are £800 a set for Michelins
They do 22-23mpg average, 29/30 on the motorway, and still only £285 a year for the tax as they are pre March 2006.
Not the fastest 911 ever made, but still plenty quick enough for a road car, and they sound lovely too, thoroughly recommended for the price.. and it's seal grey.
a4ash said:
I went to look at this 996 c4s today, it's done 68k miles, full history, although not sure if its had the IMS done or not and its £19,950. Does anyone know it or can offer any advice? The car is very clean inside and out.
Thanks
Thats big money. It needs to be properly mint.Thanks
My advise would be to have it inspected and double check all the paperwork before you hand over the cash, I brought an 04 last year with Full main dealer service history 52,000m 2 miles from home the IMS failed resulting in a catastrophic engine failure say no more.
This didn't put me off I found another one with 74,000 FSH had it inspected and have done 7k in it, I'm still paronoid so I replace the oil every 5k inspect the filter and have a magnetic sump plug and a 2 year warranty in place.
This didn't put me off I found another one with 74,000 FSH had it inspected and have done 7k in it, I'm still paronoid so I replace the oil every 5k inspect the filter and have a magnetic sump plug and a 2 year warranty in place.
Edited by nighttrain on Monday 23 February 19:05
Wow....that's bad luck. I take it you didn't have a ppi before buying the first one? I had an ims fail aswell and it was a painful experience, £6.5k of rebuild later I reluctantly had to sell.
There's a good article by Peter Morgan about bore scoring/ims fail in one of the rags this month, his consensus is that it's far less widespread than everyone thinks. Although I'm not sure I entirely agree with his research figures....I'm 50% of the ims fails from one indy and when I took it in they said they'd had loads of them go including one of their own cars....that was back in 2004, so I find it hard to understand they were the only two in the last 16yrs.........
There's a good article by Peter Morgan about bore scoring/ims fail in one of the rags this month, his consensus is that it's far less widespread than everyone thinks. Although I'm not sure I entirely agree with his research figures....I'm 50% of the ims fails from one indy and when I took it in they said they'd had loads of them go including one of their own cars....that was back in 2004, so I find it hard to understand they were the only two in the last 16yrs.........
I don't think an inspection would have helped you much here, a ball race bearing on the way out gives little away for you to hear if its buried in the engine like an IMS.. you would have more chance of hearing 1 on the way out if it was a water pump / alternator or PAS pump.., silver oil would be a sign, but not normally on the dip stick, it's in bottom of the sump.
My research has showed it to be a lottery, so I'm just driving mine as normal daily.. if it let's go, so be it and a good excuse to do a 3.9l to go back in it..!
My research has showed it to be a lottery, so I'm just driving mine as normal daily.. if it let's go, so be it and a good excuse to do a 3.9l to go back in it..!
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