The Ten Grand Boxster

[anonymous-user]

Any thoughts anyone?
Anyone done it?
I must say I'm tempted, ok they are the very base model, but from what I've seen, what a lovely car for the money.
I won't mention RMS, there is enough on this forum elsewhere.

[Fidgits]

as long as it has a FSH.

Has been looked after.

Get a good inspection.

(warranty?)

Should be a good buy, and pretty depreciation proof?

[runnersp]

I've started seeing a few for about €15k (that equates to roughly £10k). I've never been a huge fan of the Boxster, but to be honest they are really starting to look appealing at that price.

[Adam B]

£10k for a 2.5 so are 2.7 down to 13-14k yet? I would always get the 2.7 which has reasonable performance.

But yes, lot of car for the money, even the 2.5 sounds lovely and handles well

[The Griffalo]

Fidgits said:

as long as it has a FSH.

Has been looked after.

Get a good inspection.

(warranty?)

Should be a good buy, and pretty depreciation proof?

A warranty on a £10K car? At that sort of money it's almost disposable

Buy one. If it goes bang spend the money on a replacement uber engine instead and enjoy

[sleep envy]

2.5 car with GT3 engine???

Rob, get yer spanners out!

[runnersp]

sleep envy said:

2.5 car with GT3 engine???

Rob, get yer spanners out!

Oh dear. That does sound rather appealing, such a shame that the last time I opened my wallet cartoon butterflies came out...

[sleep envy]

Thinking about it it might even be posssible to do it cheaper than £10k i.e. 2.5 Boxster with engine failure (there must be a few floating about with dodgy spec and odd colour to keep the costs down) plus a std 3.6 911 engine...

[Fidgits]

runnersp said:

sleep envy said:

2.5 car with GT3 engine???

Rob, get yer spanners out!

Oh dear. That does sound rather appealing, such a shame that the last time I opened my wallet cartoon butterflies came out...

I did a boxster with a GT2 engine...

this was, of course on Forza 2 computer game but it rendered it practically undriveable

[Essential]

A friend in the trade bought a 2.5 for £7500 recently.

High miler with history and yes the engine was in the back and working

[The Griffalo]

sleep envy said:

Thinking about it it might even be posssible to do it cheaper than £10k i.e. 2.5 Boxster with engine failure (there must be a few floating about with dodgy spec and odd colour to keep the costs down) plus a std 3.6 911 engine...

It would be light and powerful, just like a TVR

[Essential]

A friend in the trade bought a 2.5 for £7500 recently.

High miler with history and yes the engine was in the back and working

[sleep envy]

The Griffalo said:

sleep envy said:

Thinking about it it might even be posssible to do it cheaper than £10k i.e. 2.5 Boxster with engine failure (there must be a few floating about with dodgy spec and odd colour to keep the costs down) plus a std 3.6 911 engine...

It would be light and powerful, just like a TVR

it would also go round bends just unlike a TVR

[The Griffalo]

sleep envy said:

The Griffalo said:

sleep envy said:

Thinking about it it might even be posssible to do it cheaper than £10k i.e. 2.5 Boxster with engine failure (there must be a few floating about with dodgy spec and odd colour to keep the costs down) plus a std 3.6 911 engine...

It would be light and powerful, just like a TVR

it would also go round bends just unlike a TVR

You do have a point there

[anonymous-user]

Adam B said:

£10k for a 2.5 so are 2.7 down to 13-14k yet? I would always get the 2.7 which has reasonable performance.

But yes, lot of car for the money, even the 2.5 sounds lovely and handles well

Just seen a 2000 2.7 for 13.5k on autotrader

[anonymous-user]

Why all this talk of engine failure???
I was reading that the main problem with alot of Boxsters was RMS letting by a bit of oil, and if you're unlucky, wear on the intermediate crank bearing (or was it the intermediate shaft bearing?).

[sleep envy]

sjwright944 said:

Why all this talk of engine failure???

because it's pointless buying a Boxster with working engines if you decide to drop a bigger/more powerful flat 6 into it

[runnersp]

A used 3.6 engine is €5k on Van Zweeden's website. All I need now is a broken Boxster, how straightforward is the swap?

[sleep envy]

total speculation but I'd imagine the oily/plumbing bits will be striaghtforward although the wiring and subframe/chassis work will require some expertise

[runnersp]

sleep envy said:

total speculation but I'd imagine the oily/plumbing bits will be striaghtforward although the wiring and subframe/chassis work will require some expertise

Most interesting, I can't really afford to have two Porsches both with bent engines, but as soon as the 911's done I might just give this some thought...