I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[buccal]

Chaps,

Been running about in an NC MX5 for a few months which I have been really enjoying.

I’m considering doing a few mods but I keep coming back to 986’s for similar money.

Wondered what the collective wisdom was on this car (which seems to have the perfect spec to me)?

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

[buccal]

Cheers cmoose,

That’s exactly the kind of useful reply I was hoping for.

I did see in various points in the thread that extended cow made a big difference.

I’m not a fan of big wheels at the best of times but a relatively easy fix.

Sounds like I need to do a bit more research around what’s available for that budget.

Edited by buccal on Wednesday 18th September 16:54

[Escy]

I agree that it's too expensive for the mileage. Regarding extended leather, I think it's only cmoose that bangs that particular drum, I couldn't care less on a sports car. I'd want it on a Cayenne though.

[ATM]

The Moo likes Cow. Hence the name obviously!

I'd speak to the guy at least. Car could be good. It may have had suspension bits in the last few years. You wont know without asking.

If you want drug dealer spec then it could the car for you.

This is the poverty pork thread so there will be a few people grumbling about 500 quid here or there. At 7000 maybe thats a good deal but at 8000 not so good. 7500 could be the warm fussy middle ground you are both searching for.

[2Btoo]

Escy said:

Regarding extended leather, I think it's only cmoose that bangs that particular drum, I couldn't care less on a sports car.

Leaping to the defence of cmoose, I looked long and hard to find extended leather on my 987 Cayman when I bought it, mainly based on his comments. I've seen (and sat in) cars without it and they are fine places to be, but once you've sat in one with the extended leather you don't really want to go back to a car without it.

It's not essential. But it is nice. How important it is to you is entirely a personal matter.

[Rosewood Red]

buccal said:

Chaps,

Been running about in an NC MX5 for a few months which I have been really enjoying.

I’m considering doing a few mods but I keep coming back to 986’s for similar money.

Wondered what the collective wisdom was on this car (which seems to have the perfect spec to me)?

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

This car, the one being discussed above, is also known on boxa.net.

Price may be a little optimistic, but find me a similar car with that spec (Litronics trump leather imo) and mileage for say, £6.5k that's had a replacement clutch / DMF / IMSB and has air con that works.

Hardtop could be liquidated for £400.

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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That's lovely.

Full cow too.

[NJH]

The extended leather is much more common in the rear engined Pork. I agree with a previous poster, once you have sat in one with it you don't really want to be in a car with the plastic everywhere. These are supposed to be special cars after all.

[Rosewood Red]

I too think £8xxx is optimistic, but was going to argue that something between £6,750 and £7,000 may not be. However, I again could be off the mark.

Bottom of the barrel, seems to be between £4,250 and £5,000 for a manual 3.2. And there are also a lot of dogs priced higher than that. So adding, another £2k to the contingency fund...

Then again, a car like this pops up, which on the surface appears to be a potential bargain:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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How's life with your 987?

[andy-ski]

This was the last leg of our holiday - Germany back to the UK, we had been in Sienna and then north East Italy. I’ve always had full confidence in the Boxster, even now with 148k on the clock it doesn’t use any oil between services.
Shame the exhaust started blowing after some almost max speed on the autobahn.

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:04

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:05

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:07

[2Btoo]

andy-ski said:

This was the last leg of our holiday - Germany back to the UK, we had been in Sienna and then north East Italy. I’ve always had full confidence in the Boxster, even now with 148k on the clock it doesn’t use any oil between services.
Shame the exhaust started blowing after some almost max speed on the autobahn.

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:04

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:05

Edited by andy-ski on Thursday 19th September 00:07

What screen is that a picture of? It looks like a lot of useful data ... is it on your 986? Can you display something like that on a 987?

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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It's still rotting away looking broken. I'm lacking inspiration. The 996 is MOT-less as well.

[andy-ski]

anonymous said:

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Yep the PCM 1.0 in my 2002 986. It shows 3 options:
- the to destination would show distance away if you're using the sat nav, which you wouldn't it's ancient vs range. So the range left if no destination set in sat nav
- current journey since as you can see here the data from today, you can stop for a couple of hours and it's the same journey
- continued from last reset (in mine it's the last 12k miles since the battery was disconnected) shows the same stats over a longer period

These cars are fine for long drives, and lots of luggage space for touring 2 up. I even got 450 miles from one tankful up to Luxembourg, less per tank after that

[jonny996]

this might not be what this thread is about.
https://www.kennydunn.co.uk/used-cars/porsche-911-...

[Escy]

I just read on Facebook that someone in Germany bought a 996 3.6 engine from Porsche for 7500 euros including tax. Straight purchase, no core exchange. Seems a good price.

[NJH]

Seems an amazing price.

[Escy]

It was a short engine, no heads.

[Patrick Bateman]

High miles 986 that's clearly been looked after and a Hartech rebuild 40k miles ago-

http://www.boxa.net/forum/topic/84050-boxster-986s...

[ooid]

Nice car, the engine rebuild looks like mostly due to cracked cylinder head? And its 2001 S.

When I mentioned, how common this issue on 2000-2001 cars previously, (even 996), some over-sentimental PH friends accused me of "scare mongering" or over-generalisation though