I've just bought some poverty Pork…

I've just bought some poverty Pork…

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edc

9,231 posts

250 months

Thursday 6th October 2022
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Smollet said:
Sounds very much like the sort of car you'd find on Boxa. Small minor electrical bits resolved DIY using the 101 DIY book!

MrC986

3,481 posts

190 months

Thursday 6th October 2022
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Smollet said:
I’ll be interested to see as I’ve a friend with a similar car (age/miles etc,) whose considering trading up to a 996 & an auction sale should hopefully be a worst case figure IMO.

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Thursday 6th October 2022
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MrC986 said:
I’ll be interested to see as I’ve a friend with a similar car (age/miles etc,) whose considering trading up to a 996 & an auction sale should hopefully be a worst case figure IMO.
Having come from a near pristine 996.1 I’d say don’t. Nowhere near as enjoyable to drive as my 986.2S

Escy

3,906 posts

148 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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987 2.7, xenons, sports seats, Bose. 163k miles but only £6000

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175411018751?mkcid=16&a...

snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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edc said:
Smollet said:
Sounds very much like the sort of car you'd find on Boxa. Small minor electrical bits resolved DIY using the 101 DIY book!
That looks like a really nice car to me. 2002 like my old one, only thing that might be nice would be a later roof with glass - although the plastic window fitted looks split mint.

Bodywork looks, from the photos at least, very very tidy, particularly around the lower half where they often get a bit battered and bruised. Extended Leather will make the inside feel much more premium. The Paint colour, and grey interior, often looks a bit flat and dull on these when you are looking at photos and videos, but in real life I would be confident in saying it will feel a lot 'fancier'.

Rear tyres are budgets, they look brand spanking new and I'd put money on the seller (foolishly) having fitted them purely for the sake of the sale or maybe getting a fresh ticket on it.


Its a lot, lot easier to take one with good bodywork like this and give it a bit of a mechanical refresh where needed, than it is to take a tatty looking car and make it 'look' fresh.

ATM

18,092 posts

218 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Smollet said:
MrC986 said:
I’ll be interested to see as I’ve a friend with a similar car (age/miles etc,) whose considering trading up to a 996 & an auction sale should hopefully be a worst case figure IMO.
Having come from a near pristine 996.1 I’d say don’t. Nowhere near as enjoyable to drive as my 986.2S
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Mikeeb

405 posts

117 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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ATM said:
Smollet said:
MrC986 said:
I’ll be interested to see as I’ve a friend with a similar car (age/miles etc,) whose considering trading up to a 996 & an auction sale should hopefully be a worst case figure IMO.
Having come from a near pristine 996.1 I’d say don’t. Nowhere near as enjoyable to drive as my 986.2S
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Knowing Mr Smollett, and being the owner of his former 996.1, he likes to cause a bit of controversy! But he has offered me a drive in his newly Koni Active equipped 986.2 so I'll see........

ATM

18,092 posts

218 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Mikeeb said:
ATM said:
Smollet said:
MrC986 said:
I’ll be interested to see as I’ve a friend with a similar car (age/miles etc,) whose considering trading up to a 996 & an auction sale should hopefully be a worst case figure IMO.
Having come from a near pristine 996.1 I’d say don’t. Nowhere near as enjoyable to drive as my 986.2S
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Knowing Mr Smollett, and being the owner of his former 996.1, he likes to cause a bit of controversy! But he has offered me a drive in his newly Koni Active equipped 986.2 so I'll see........
Yes sir, keep us Posted

RM

580 posts

96 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Escy said:
987 2.7, xenons, sports seats, Bose. 163k miles but only £6000

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175411018751?mkcid=16&a...
That is cheap in absolute terms. Get it borescoped, run it for 10-20k if you are lucky then sell it for parts? Cheap fun for a while. It’s never going to make sense financially to replace suspension or rebuild the engine.


edc

9,231 posts

250 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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RM said:
Escy said:
987 2.7, xenons, sports seats, Bose. 163k miles but only £6000

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175411018751?mkcid=16&a...
That is cheap in absolute terms. Get it borescoped, run it for 10-20k if you are lucky then sell it for parts? Cheap fun for a while. It’s never going to make sense financially to replace suspension or rebuild the engine.
No need for a borescope and why sell it for parts if it's as good later as now. Just sell on if bored.

RM

580 posts

96 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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edc said:
RM said:
Escy said:
987 2.7, xenons, sports seats, Bose. 163k miles but only £6000

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175411018751?mkcid=16&a...
That is cheap in absolute terms. Get it borescoped, run it for 10-20k if you are lucky then sell it for parts? Cheap fun for a while. It’s never going to make sense financially to replace suspension or rebuild the engine.
No need for a borescope and why sell it for parts if it's as good later as now. Just sell on if bored.
I suppose as a 2.7 it’s low risk for scoring but at 165k it’s got to have a decent chance of problems. At 185k there’s an even higher chance, compression issues and oval bores? Hence I would rather not have to worry about selling a car with limited life.

But you are right, buy it, smoke around in it and sell it on. Total cost would probably be very low.

2Btoo

3,410 posts

202 months

Saturday 8th October 2022
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Anecdote I know, but I have a 2.7 987.1 Cayman with about 122k miles on it and there's no sign of any bore score, ovality or otherwise. And on the various 987 faceache groups there are quite a number of US folks with 2.7's who are running mileages twice mine with no problems.

Escy

3,906 posts

148 months

Saturday 8th October 2022
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Yeah, it's a pretty low risk car I'd have thought, especially if the full service history it decent.

snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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Proof that they are still out there...


No skin in the game here, just a spot. As simple as they come.

2.5, has a perfect spec of litronics (thus negating peoples aversion to Fried Eggs) and nothing else. Vinyl interior. The wonderful, manual, no A/C heating system (Lighter, no condensers to rot your rads out hidden from sight, no stupid beep-beep-beep 90's LCD display.). Cable Throttle, frunk and trunk release. No Bose. Probably a casette deck!

Plenty of miles but plenty of stamps and doesn't look worn out. Bodywork looks remarkably straight. Looks like a 'bit on the side' trader who has a few Porsches through so one can assume its not a complete basket case.

Take 5 grand in cash. Another £500 in the back pocket if the negotiating is tough.

Stick it in the garage and get it out in Spring once you've amortised the spend and drive it to work when the suns out. Cant go wrong. Love it.


£5950







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paulguitar

23,104 posts

112 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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snotrag said:
Proof that they are still out there...
Block Paving. Garage (Buy the owner, not the car etc).
I think it should be pointed out that it is a dealer selling that.



snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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paulguitar said:
I think it should be pointed out that it is a dealer selling that.
Yep, spotted that.

paulguitar

23,104 posts

112 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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snotrag said:
paulguitar said:
I think it should be pointed out that it is a dealer selling that.
Yep, spotted that.
Looks very tidy as you say.

esotericar

745 posts

26 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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snotrag said:
2.5, has a perfect spec of litronics (thus negating peoples aversion to Fried Eggs) and nothing else.
Just to be pedantic, it doesn't have Litronics. Those are just 986.2 style de-ambered halogens.

Think if you're into something like an early 2.5, you wouldn't have a fried egg aversion. I'd prefer the car fully ambered up, anyway.

ATM

18,092 posts

218 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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esotericar said:
I'd prefer the car fully ambered up, anyway.
I agree

My Red car looks a bit off with ambers but I am trying to embrace the originality.

snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Friday 14th October 2022
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I think its colour dependent - I too prefer the ambers, but the clear works well with some of the more neutral silver/grey etc.


Amber looks good againt blue or black.