I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[nessiemac]

Hopefully going to look at this one next week!

Not currently advertised and not a colour I would normally like but this looks beautiful!

Great history with a lot of work done, needs clutch in next 10,000 miles, but all sounds very promising.

[hmg]

nessiemac said:

Hopefully going to look at this one next week!

Not currently advertised and not a colour I would normally like but this looks beautiful!

Great history with a lot of work done, needs clutch in next 10,000 miles, but all sounds very promising.

Surely it needs a clutch or it doesn’t?

[nessiemac]

hmg said:

nessiemac said:

Hopefully going to look at this one next week!

Not currently advertised and not a colour I would normally like but this looks beautiful!

Great history with a lot of work done, needs clutch in next 10,000 miles, but all sounds very promising.

Surely it needs a clutch or it doesn’t?

Apparently on these they get heavier and heavier as they approach the end of their life.

[BrotherMouzone]

That looks lovely.

[edc]

They do. I had a 12 year old 58k car and the clutch was pretty heavy. Worked fine. Short time later swapped into a 9 year old car with 105k and clutch was much easier to use, but changed it anyway.

[snotrag]

hmg said:

Surely it needs a clutch or it doesn’t?

You don't realise how bad the clutches are on all the Boxsters you've tried until you try one that's just been done! They feel progressively awful a long time before they start slipping. A new one is lovely and light and easy.

[eltax91]

Someone should swoop in and buy this. True poverty

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275629329954?mkcid=16&a...

[squareflops]

agreed in the clutch. my pedal is very heavy although no slipping. money being put aside to get it done in the short/mid term. £800 ish i’m guessing, anyone had it done and can advise?

[ATM]

nessiemac said:

Apparently on these they get heavier and heavier as they approach the end of their life.

Yes .... we know

But even heavy it will just work. Mine failed and it wasn't heavy. Just failed and needed changing. It wasn't heavy when it failed.

So I think the point is estimating it will fail in 10000 miles makes no sense.

[2Btoo]

eltax91 said:

Someone should swoop in and buy this. True poverty

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275629329954?mkcid=16&a...

Poverty indeed. And if the details are to be believed then it would be easy and cheap to get through an MOT.

Looks rough - very rough. But perhaps that's part of the appeal ....

[snotrag]

Wouldnt touch it.

ebay said:

This car has been my pride and joy during my ownership and has had been well looked after in this time

Personal opinion, happy to be proven wrong etc etc but the fact someone is willing to 'let it go' over that little amount of work is a button tight guarantee that they have spent an absolute pittance running it, and there will be stacks of other stuff thats on its last legs.

Exhaust leak will be a gasket and will have been leaking for sometime.

Brakes are a service item/consumable, like tyres or fuel or tax. Its part of the cost of car ownership not an 'unforessen disaster' that creeps up on you.

CV joint fair enough, cant be predicted but not a massive job.

Anti roll bar linkage - buttons to buy, bit fiddly to fix if you need to get Gary Grinder or the Oxy torch out when it seizes in the upright. But it has probably been gone for some time, un-noticed, again suggesting the level of care and attention from the current owner.
Its a shed. and their starting price suggests they are rathjer optimistic about its value.

Edited by snotrag on Wednesday 18th January 10:49

[shalmaneser]

snotrag said:

hmg said:

Surely it needs a clutch or it doesn’t?

You don't realise how bad the clutches are on all the Boxsters you've tried until you try one that's just been done! They feel progressively awful a long time before they start slipping. A new one is lovely and light and easy.

Some judder too in my experience. Wife's 987 was juddering for about two years before we had to sell due to the immanent arrival of mini-shalmaneser. Did the job myself, it's one of the easiest clutch jobs you'll ever do. Only pain was removing the manifold-cat bolts which had rusted to pieces and needed hacking off. Everything else was super easy, access to bellhousing bolts is fine, exhaust comes off in one piece, CV axles are easy peasy. Anyway, went for the first shakedown drive and nearly put my foot through the firewall.

Clutch was holding fine but on inspection was pretty worn.

[Smollet]

CallMeLegend said:

I'm afraid you are wrong, they are very, very cool.

That’s because they’re air cooled.

[dibblecorse]

Just been served this up in my FB memories, Bluebell, the 3k Boxster that kicked off this thread ......

[soxboy]

snotrag said:

Wouldnt touch it.

ebay said:

This car has been my pride and joy during my ownership and has had been well looked after in this time

Personal opinion, happy to be proven wrong etc etc but the fact someone is willing to 'let it go' over that little amount of work is a button tight guarantee that they have spent an absolute pittance running it, and there will be stacks of other stuff thats on its last legs.

Exhaust leak will be a gasket and will have been leaking for sometime.

Brakes are a service item/consumable, like tyres or fuel or tax. Its part of the cost of car ownership not an 'unforessen disaster' that creeps up on you.

CV joint fair enough, cant be predicted but not a massive job.

Anti roll bar linkage - buttons to buy, bit fiddly to fix if you need to get Gary Grinder or the Oxy torch out when it seizes in the upright. But it has probably been gone for some time, un-noticed, again suggesting the level of care and attention from the current owner.
Its a shed. and their starting price suggests they are rathjer optimistic about its value.

I must admit reading this I begin to think if I was that owner!

Had my 987 5.5 years now, during which time it has had routine and age-related maintenance. Nothing has been skimped and it has obviously cost a fair amount, but I would hold my hands up and say that most work has been reactive rather than proactive.

If I was faced with a garage saying that it ‘could’ be expensive issues I might be tempted to cut and run. Many of the jobs could be easy fixes if you know what you are doing and have the tools and the space, but I don’t.

[Mallone]

Picked this up on Thursday after spotting it on FB marketplace. Fancied another Boxster, always heard good things about the 2.5’s, miss having a convertible for summer, and be nice to have something that I’m not quite as precious over as the 911.

Cracked coolant tank leaking into the boot, roof not working, old/crap tyres, no MOT or history, only one key.

LOTS of little niggles that need sorting but…..engine sounded very sweet, gearbox is good and there’s something very cool about a very early 2.5 Boxster. No AC, cloth seats, 16 inch wheels. Proper poverty spec (and all the lighter for it).

Changed the coolant tank yesterday (awful job) and she’s feeling mega after a run around the block.

Paid £2400. I can’t go wrong for a summer toy, surely?! I’ll sort a proper readers cars post soon

[2Btoo]

Less than two and a half bags of sand sounds good although it depends heavily upon what the niggles are and what you want from the car. If you are after a summer runaround and are confident you can get it MOT'd and reliable for not much cash then it's a bargain.

Out of curiosity, what makes the coolant tank change a difficult job?

[eltax91]

2Btoo said:

Less than two and a half bags of sand sounds good although it depends heavily upon what the niggles are and what you want from the car. If you are after a summer runaround and are confident you can get it MOT'd and reliable for not much cash then it's a bargain.

Out of curiosity, what makes the coolant tank change a difficult job?

The rads and heater matrix are at the front but the tank and associated cooling lines for the engine at the back. So you have 2 coolant pipes under the length of the car. This makes them a bd to bleed.

When I did major surgery on my 996, the recommended approach was to use a vacuum tool to pull all the air out, let it hold vacuum for a while to test for leaks and then refill the gap with coolant. Worked a treat for me (twice)

[Mallone]

eltax91 said:

2Btoo said:

Less than two and a half bags of sand sounds good although it depends heavily upon what the niggles are and what you want from the car. If you are after a summer runaround and are confident you can get it MOT'd and reliable for not much cash then it's a bargain.

Out of curiosity, what makes the coolant tank change a difficult job?

The rads and heater matrix are at the front but the tank and associated cooling lines for the engine at the back. So you have 2 coolant pipes under the length of the car. This makes them a bd to bleed.

When I did major surgery on my 996, the recommended approach was to use a vacuum tool to pull all the air out, let it hold vacuum for a while to test for leaks and then refill the gap with coolant. Worked a treat for me (twice)

All of that, plus the actual design of the tank is pretty barmy. You have four rubber hoses and the fixed oil filler tube all connected to one manifold that sits on the bulkhead of the boot/engine bay. Problem is that you can’t really access (or even see) the hoses from the engine bay and they are so tightly packed together that, at least for me, some the hose clips overlapped each other. You have to do a lot of it blind. Supposedly easier from below the car, but I don’t have access to a ramp.

I bought a remote hose clamp pliers tool and I don’t think you could do the job without one. Was about four hours of grazed knuckles, swearing, and general mechanical misery. I bought an OEM coolant tank (£££) as there was no way I wanted to go back and do it all again if a cheap aftermarket one failed within six months.

Google ‘986 coolant tank change’ to read some other stories of woe.

[austin]

Nice to see some proper poverty Porsche going on again. Looks better than mine already!