911 997 Gen 1 or Gen II

[fitter]

Good evening everyone.
I am new to Piston heads so hello to everyone.
I am going to buy a 911 pretty soon. Gen 1 or Gen 11? What advice do you have please? The car will be from a Porsche dealership.
Good Gen 1 cars are going for around the £40-42k while the Gen 11 cars are at least £10k more.
It looks like the Gen 11 cars are holding their price right now, probably because there are not many 991's about second hand. When there are, in about say 1 to 2 years, just about when I might want to pass on my car, will the Gen 11 prices really drop?
What are the views?

many thanks

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Gen 1 cars still have the slightly iffy M97 engine - famed for failures. Rear main seal, Intermediate shaft seal, Intermediate shaft bearing and ovaling of the open deck cylinder bores.

Gen 2 cars are a totally re-designed engine without these faults - however, being direct injection, some of them are suffering from carbon build-up on the inlet valves if they're not driven hard - i.e cars that spend their life in cities generally. But basically a much safer bet reliability wise.


For what it's worth, I ran a 996 with an M96 engine for four years - basically the same as the M97 in Gen 1 997's. I suffered IMS and RMS seal failure, but no other catastrophic failures - my ownership period was from a 30,000 mile car taking it up to 70,000 miles.

Have a look / post in the Porsche forum on here - you'll get a better response overall.

HTH

[fitter]

Thanks Ray,
the early engines were problematic but I think the later ones were pretty much sorted.
Thanks for the tip anyway

[anonymous-user]

I'd go for the 7.2 nowadays

bank on losing £15k as an absolute minimum over 2 years if buying from OPC at £50k, likely more