I’ve just bought the cheapest 911 in the UK!

[Cloudy147]

sillysally1 said:

Cloudy147 said:

Good luck with the purchase!

I remember a few years ago a mate of mine had one and when he'd had enough he took it to WBAC and flogged it for £3k! It was fairly decent too.

Got any pictures to share of yours? Find a good specialist and I'm sure you'll be fine.

3k?? Was it a 996?

It was yes - a silver one like yours too. I got a text from him one day "I'm at WBAC with the 911. You can have it for £3.5k if you want it but you have only 10 minutes to decide". He isn't one to hang about.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

85Carrera said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

WJNB said:

Jasandjules said:

I like your style.

And so do I. The antidote to car snobbery.

Absolutely 100% this. For £1000 less than this (James May - 'good news' if you can't place!) you have a fully fledged pedigree with 300bhp+

I think this has the making of a great thread, please keep the updates coming.

Yes but if your neighbour parked that outside their house, would it be better or worse than them putting up a plastic porch and detracting from your much admired front door?

Oh give it a rest. That thread became a classic case of the worst of PH. 15 pages of (mainly) support, then pack mentality when someone lays in. All too common a theme.

Please, the OP doesn't deserve his proud purchase thread trashing by point scorers spewing all over it, so let's just drop it hey.

[85Carrera]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

85Carrera said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

WJNB said:

Jasandjules said:

I like your style.

And so do I. The antidote to car snobbery.

Absolutely 100% this. For £1000 less than this (James May - 'good news' if you can't place!) you have a fully fledged pedigree with 300bhp+

I think this has the making of a great thread, please keep the updates coming.

Yes but if your neighbour parked that outside their house, would it be better or worse than them putting up a plastic porch and detracting from your much admired front door?

Oh give it a rest. That thread became a classic case of the worst of PH. 15 pages of (mainly) support, then pack mentality when someone lays in. All too common a theme.

Please, the OP doesn't deserve his proud purchase thread trashing by point scorers spewing all over it, so let's just drop it hey.

To be fair there was a bit of gentle ribbing because you came across as a bit of an arse but this is a potentially interesting thread so agree, let’s not divert it.

[sagarich]

Brilliant, watching with interest.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

85Carrera said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

85Carrera said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

WJNB said:

Jasandjules said:

I like your style.

And so do I. The antidote to car snobbery.

Absolutely 100% this. For £1000 less than this (James May - 'good news' if you can't place!) you have a fully fledged pedigree with 300bhp+

I think this has the making of a great thread, please keep the updates coming.

Yes but if your neighbour parked that outside their house, would it be better or worse than them putting up a plastic porch and detracting from your much admired front door?

Oh give it a rest. That thread became a classic case of the worst of PH. 15 pages of (mainly) support, then pack mentality when someone lays in. All too common a theme.

Please, the OP doesn't deserve his proud purchase thread trashing by point scorers spewing all over it, so let's just drop it hey.

To be fair there was a bit of gentle ribbing because you came across as a bit of an arse but this is a potentially interesting thread so agree, let’s not divert it.

I can't respond as to why you may think that, but one thing that is always worth remembering when posting online is that written word conveys zero sentiment. It's why Facebook regularly becomes anti-social media, and why I fked it off two years ago. My last to say on the matter.

Now, OP, more on the 996 purchase, and if it is going to be your best investment, or your bank managers nightmare!

[Rewe]

This is really interesting! I’m looking forward to living vicariously through it and remembering days of owning similarly potentially ruinous cars!

[Tommie38]

Pictures and story, chop chop!

[ferrisbueller]

Cloudy147 said:

sillysally1 said:

Cloudy147 said:

Good luck with the purchase!

I remember a few years ago a mate of mine had one and when he'd had enough he took it to WBAC and flogged it for £3k! It was fairly decent too.

Got any pictures to share of yours? Find a good specialist and I'm sure you'll be fine.

3k?? Was it a 996?

It was yes - a silver one like yours too. I got a text from him one day "I'm at WBAC with the 911. You can have it for £3.5k if you want it but you have only 10 minutes to decide". He isn't one to hang about.

Punch in the reg and see what WBAC offer now. Last time I tried it was £50 (fifty). Methinks they've been stung by a few folk offloading 996s.

[marky911]

The Moose said:

jonny996 said:

this thread smacks of loss leading to get hits on his YouTube channel.

Ohhhhh yes. 10 whole subscribers!

I know. Mr JWW must be stting himself.

As I said on 911uk OP, good luck with it. I hope you have a lot of fun.

Edited by marky911 on Thursday 23 May 23:53

[Pit Pony]

sillysally1 said:

Hi All,

This is my first post so bear with me. ??

I decided to prove to a friend that I could buy the absolute cheapest 911 in the UK and run it for a year without breaking the bank. So I did a search on Autotrader (criteria was manual, C2, coupe with an MOT). Picked the first one and bought it without driving it and had it delivered to me. I even Amazon Primed a camera and filmed my first drive and just stuck it on YouTube (sorry, terrible video!).

So I am now the proud owner of a 1998 996 for the princely sum of, der der derrr...£6550!

So after a year I’ll either be saying don’t do it or...everyone go and buy a 911 now!!

Admittedly, I broke all the rules of car buying so I wouldn’t recommend that.

Anyway, enough of an introduction, I’ll be looking for lots of help I’m sure so I’m hoping I’ll be able to call upon your expertise and experience.

Wish me luck!

Also posted on 911uk forum.

Moderator edit: no YouTube links please.

Edited by jeremyc on Thursday 23 May 12:55

I love that sort of challenge.

I was working as a contract engineer in the nuclear industry. In an office full.of freelancers, with good hourly rates.
The ownership or leasing of some interesting cars was commonplace.

Anywsy one lunch timr i wss invited to join the a few of them in the car park, to look at someone's brand new merc. Not sure of the model, but diesel c class of some sort.
At the time i had an £ 800 astra mk4 1.6 sport. It was most uncomfortable.
Anyway i ask him how much it cost.
£££££ deposit, and £3?? A month for 3 years and then give it back.
I worked it out and it was over £20k and that didnt include servicing and tyres.
I quietly challenged myself to spend less than 2 month lease cost on replacing the astra with something that was as quick or quicker, had a bigger engine and was petrol. And was comfortable.
I bought the cheapest and only 3.2 MV6 omega i could find and when i sold the astra, i was left with £300 change. That was in october 2016. I reckon that merc is going back soon, and i reckon that ive spent an extra £4k on fuel in tjat time. So £15k better off ? And probably had more "fun" .....
Its not the cheapest 911, but i feel.empathy all the same. Good luck.

[Mannginger]

Loon! Subscribed and watching video 1 now. What do you define as "breaking the bank" to determine if you can or not? 200% purchase price?!

[Blanco92]

Brilliant thread. More interesting than someone turning up with a thread about his/her new 911. This one should have thrills and spills in equal measure. And as it’s me not bank-rolling it I’m just going to enjoy the view!

[Jonny_]

Providing it doesn't self destruct, that's a bargain!

OP, are you going to be doing your own maintenance and repair work on the 911?

(I loves me a good spannering thread )

[selym]

Jonny_ said:

Providing it doesn't self destruct, that's a bargain!

OP, are you going to be doing your own maintenance and repair work on the 911?

(I loves me a good spannering thread )

Yeah, this'd be even better! Cheap porker AND cheap ownership ......

[Megaflow]

Brave, I was once told any 911 for less than £10k, will generally need the balance of the £10k spending on it to get it up to a half decent standard.

Now, that was a long time ago, and was talking about air cooled versions. It will be interesting to see how this goes.

[Black_S3]

I really hope this works out for you!

[Rogue86]

A proper PH thread. Im in.

[Court_S]

I’m in. Looks to be an interesting idea. Potentially it looks like a steal if it’s not shagged.

[ChocolateFrog]

I too like these threads, I hope it dispels the "it cost x amount new you must budget y(insert ridiculous maintenance budget) per year type comment that always come up in duplicate when anyone dares to buy a cheap version of a once relatively expensive car.

What is the plan? Use it as a daily or just a few times this summer?

Any plans to do any preventive servicing and maintenance or just run it until it breaks? If it does indeed break.

Would be good to see an interior shot to see if a dubious 90's colour scheme made it in there.

[marky911]

ChocolateFrog said:

I too like these threads, I hope it dispels the "it cost x amount new you must budget y(insert ridiculous maintenance budget) per year type comment that always come up in duplicate when anyone dares to buy a cheap version of a once relatively expensive car.

The harsh reality is exactly that though. It all depends on your approach but even with a lot of self-spannering a 911 is NEVER a cheap car to run.

Show me one if you want and I bet I can rip it to bits. As I say it depends on your standards and approach, but to get the proper 911 experience the car has to be tip top suspension wise and that one job alone costs thousands.

I do love these threads though and I sincerely hope it goes well. What the op has on his side is that the car is so cheap he doesn’t need to try and retain its value with specialist servicing and stamps in the book etc.
So he can run it as frugally as he dares as he can’t lose really.

For most of us buying nice examples there is always a minimum level of maintenance required or you’re going to wipe a load of value off your car.
And no it isn’t about values all the time but for most of us these are big purchases so nobody wants to throw it all away.

Ignoring the resale angle, I have to maintain a car properly for my own enjoyment. I like things right and that costs a lot when bringing a 20 year old sports car upto scratch.

So basically ignore all those ridiculous budget figures if you want to, but the fact is they are “reality”, not “ridiculous”.

To run a 996 at a decent level it’s £2k per annum. Some years may be less. Some will be more.
Start refreshing paintwork and interiors and that’s easily £5k per year depending on how long you keep it. It will get less as you run out of things to do though.

Anyway good luck again to the op but even if he gets away with it, this will be the exception rather than the rule.
It will make for good viewing though.

PS I’m not having a pop there Choc Frog. I’ve just read that back and it seems a bit ar$ey. I’m just stating that usually a 911 will cost a bit to run.

Edited by marky911 on Friday 24th May 17:02