Buyers Guides (996)
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You will find lots of information about the 996 in our buyers guide - several sections - on our web site www.hartech.org
Baz
Baz
nervous said:
DucatiGary said:
the car that was featured in the 996 buyers guide has just gone up for sale on here 
its in the classifieds.
its in the classifieds.
that the ex-proffesional-footballist-owned high spec one?
This one?
www.pistonheads.com/sales/138317.htm
His car is up for £20k.. Black with GT alloys and skirts.. It is very difficult at this stage to advise about high mileage 996's - the jury is still out. For example - we just had one in @ over 100K smoking like a *"!£* and the owner assumed the worst but it was just a simple problem to fix.
Anyway rebuilding the engines is not too difficult - but replacing a cracked liner is taking time to perfect - but hopefully we will be able to offer it soon after completing road trials. At least the re-rounding of distorted but uncracked liners has worked out well and is now part of our rebuild options.
We are now considering how to help owners with our Lifetime Maintenance Plan so that we can cover all such major engine failures in the future - but again it needs to be thought out very carefully - or we could end up well out of pocket.
You see our plan always allowed us to exclude coomon faults that materialise over a period of time and are basic original design errors. We put in this clause because although we are familiar with the high mileage implications of all the older models, the newer post 1997 variants had not covered enough miles to kmow what we might be letting ourselves in for when we offered them on the scheme and we are too small a business to cover the cost of say and engine rebuild for every customer. So far it has not been a problem (i.e. we have not had to invoke the clause) but it may become one in the future - but we hope to offer a way to perhaps offer customers an option to pay a small extra premium to cover all engine problems as well. With the early 996's and Boxster's becoming too old for the Porsche warranty - we feel that this may provide the only meaningful cover for problems as the cars age (and our plan is ageless with no mileage limit) and would help us sell cars and attract business if we could cover the future possibilities - but the problem is knowing what the frequency of the problems may be and therefore how to assess the shared cost implications over time. Like all insurance our scheme was originally worked out from averages so that overall - all the contributors covered the cost of all the work and no one person got a huge bill. But we used 944's and early 911's based on statistics over several years to work out the costs and the newer models simply have not been around long enough.
Anyway - at least we are trying to work out a solution and meanwhile - despite very high mileages - plenty seem to be running around OK.
Baz
Anyway rebuilding the engines is not too difficult - but replacing a cracked liner is taking time to perfect - but hopefully we will be able to offer it soon after completing road trials. At least the re-rounding of distorted but uncracked liners has worked out well and is now part of our rebuild options.
We are now considering how to help owners with our Lifetime Maintenance Plan so that we can cover all such major engine failures in the future - but again it needs to be thought out very carefully - or we could end up well out of pocket.
You see our plan always allowed us to exclude coomon faults that materialise over a period of time and are basic original design errors. We put in this clause because although we are familiar with the high mileage implications of all the older models, the newer post 1997 variants had not covered enough miles to kmow what we might be letting ourselves in for when we offered them on the scheme and we are too small a business to cover the cost of say and engine rebuild for every customer. So far it has not been a problem (i.e. we have not had to invoke the clause) but it may become one in the future - but we hope to offer a way to perhaps offer customers an option to pay a small extra premium to cover all engine problems as well. With the early 996's and Boxster's becoming too old for the Porsche warranty - we feel that this may provide the only meaningful cover for problems as the cars age (and our plan is ageless with no mileage limit) and would help us sell cars and attract business if we could cover the future possibilities - but the problem is knowing what the frequency of the problems may be and therefore how to assess the shared cost implications over time. Like all insurance our scheme was originally worked out from averages so that overall - all the contributors covered the cost of all the work and no one person got a huge bill. But we used 944's and early 911's based on statistics over several years to work out the costs and the newer models simply have not been around long enough.
Anyway - at least we are trying to work out a solution and meanwhile - despite very high mileages - plenty seem to be running around OK.
Baz
nervous said:
DucatiGary said:
the car that was featured in the 996 buyers guide has just gone up for sale on here
its in the classifieds.
its in the classifieds.
that the ex-proffesional-footballist-owned high spec one?
yup
and its an absolute beaut. You should really have a look at it. you might be tempted....
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