what is an 'early' 3.4 996?

[ferrisbueller]

ATM said:

ferrisbueller said:

Bullet-Proof_Biscuit said:

ferrisbueller said:

Vcar likely to put most people off.

Can you elaborate on 'V' plz?

Cat C insurance job.

In around 2008 the car was involved in a very minor accident which put a small Dent in the front bumper (I have photographs of the damage) a very minor incident but classed the car as a V- car, Quite unfortunate as it truly is a magnificent car and the damage was just a cracked bumper!

You've written that in the first person so I assume you're vouching for the vehicle?

Even if an assessor has done a 10 year old 996 a massive injustice and written it off for no reason (?!) then it's still scarred for life. £10k for a VCAR 996 is way over the money. At the right money it could be viable as a long term keeper but if you needed to shift it then life gets interesting as the trade doesn't like them and it's liable to stick like st on velcro.

I always wonder why the majority of people who advocate buying CAT D/C cars don't own them themselves.

[GT6 Jonsey]

The current owner of the car in the LLF video was hoping to offer it as a competition prize, unfortunately it seems in his own words he miss judged the market and there wasn’t enough interest in the car to sell tickets so it’s up for sale

[marky911]

ATM said:

but classed the car as a V- car,

Aarrghhh! They aren’t called V-cars.
VCAR stands for Vehicle Condition Alert Register.

So cars get a VCAR marker on their HPI reports. They aren’t V-cars.

<pedant mode off>

[richthebike]

anonymous said:

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This.
ATM... care to elaborate?

[ATM]

richthebike said:

anonymous said:

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This.
ATM... care to elaborate?

No not my car. I copied and pasted those words from the Ad - word for word.

In 2008 these cars were worth nothing remember. Maybe 6 or 7 grand for some. So its possible the cracked bumper is a bit of poetic license but it might have been cat d written off easily enough. I dont know if it is cat c or cat d. Someone needs to do a HPI check on it to find that out.

[Chris Stott]

Maybe the airbags deployed... might rule out an insurance repair, but would be simple enough to do privately.

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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It is 10k?

[Dammit]

Mine had 60,000 miles when I bought it three years ago, cable throttle C2, hard backed sports seats, three spoke wheel, factory LSD, bunch of quite nice options, but it's a cab so no real man would be seen dead in it = £9,500.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

996s weren't down at £10k in 2008. Funny how it's always a cracked bumper isn't it?

[jonny996]

I bought my 1998 996 in 2006 for £27k & sold it back to dealer in 2007 for £23k. So I can't see where £10k comes from

[ooid]

They were usually around 10-12k before the credit crunch.

The air-cooled were different story though, -except 993-, loads of old air-cooled rusty but working cars were available to catch between 8k-12k easily!

[ATM]

I'm sure we've had 6 to 7k cars when everything was cheap due to the credit crunch but I'm just guessing. Sorry to derail. I just thought car looked ok for 10 grand.

[Fast Bug]

I think some of the worst cars dipped that low, but even then I can't see a cracked bumper writing one off.

[LordHaveMurci]

Paid about £21k for my 2001 in summer of 2009.

Don’t remember them dropping below £10k back then.

[olv]

And today if you wanted an 8 year old 991 it'll cost you double that!

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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10 grand

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

[nunpuncher]

I can't remember the exact year, must have been around 2011/12 but one of my mates drunkenly bid on a black manual C2 with around 100k on the clock and ended up winning it for just over £7k. It turned out to be pretty clean and even came with an aero rear wing as well as the original.

[nunpuncher]

GT6 Jonsey said:

The current owner of the car in the LLF video was hoping to offer it as a competition prize, unfortunately it seems in his own words he miss judged the market and there wasn’t enough interest in the car to sell tickets so it’s up for sale

If that's the white thing with the ASBO exhaust and GT3CS stickers all over it then I'm not really surprised. How much is he trying to get for it?

[ATM]

nunpuncher said:

I can't remember the exact year, must have been around 2011/12 but one of my mates drunkenly bid on a black manual C2 with around 100k on the clock and ended up winning it for just over £7k. It turned out to be pretty clean and even came with an aero rear wing as well as the original.

My PH credentials have been saved - Hurrah. Everyone can now bow down to my vastly superior knowledge.

[was8v]

They plummeted 2008-2012

2008 the were good money as you say £20k+

2012 / 13 You had loads of choice at £10k, not many under.

I know cos I watched the market in that period, I think I got mine 2013.

Since then they have hardly risen in value, more like stagnated. You still get the odd OK looking manual coupe on ebay auction that doesn't make £8k.