Cayman 2006 3.4S. 12900miles for £21900 - overpriced?

[NeilPot]

Hi
Thinking on this car at chappel sports cars. 2006 3.4S manual with 12900 miles.

Metallic blue / tan leather.

http://www.911uk.com/ads_item.php?id=6699

Whats peoples view - expensive for a 10yr old car?

[fridaypassion]

Not really expensive I sold a 2.7 with more than double the mileage last year for 18k

Its a mileage and spec driven market. Mileage is very good spec is OK

[boxsey]

I would take a gen 2 2.9 model for similar money in preference and save myself the worry of the potential bore scoring on the gen 1 3.4 engine.

[Trev450]

Too expensive imo - £19995 tops. Not a bad spec but the low miles can be a curse with these cars when it comes to the known issues. As already said, if the budget will stretch to it go for a gen 2.

[NeilPot]

Low miles curse = Bore score, even @ 12k miles? I've seen a lot of press in the forums re Bore score and IMS, but was thinking maybe a low miler would get round this.

The Gen 2 all seems to be higher miles in the 2.9 which i'd want to avoid as a 2nd car.

[Yidwann]

Hi Neil,

I paid £16,500 last year for a 2005 in Blue, Bose, PCM with 27,500 mils on the clock in blue, from a dealer. I think looking back at it, I got a bit of a deal and I think the dealer kinda twigged on that a bit too late when he saw the amount of interest, but should give you an idea. I would have said, £17,500-£18,000 would have still been a fair price for it.

As for running, I have had it a year next week and not even a hint of trouble! I bloody love it, done 8,000 miles this year, not even used a drop of oil!

[DRH986]

It may be a moot point now as the dealer's website says a deposit has been placed on the car. Their two year warranty does cover bore scoring so that's definitely worth paying a small premium for if you go down the gen 1 3.4S route.

Specification is a personal thing of course. The car has some good options (for me, extended leather and xenons are must haves) but there are some significant spec gaps too, particularly sat nav, sport seats and cruise. The latter can be easily retrofitted but the other two are much more costly for genuine Porsche stuff. You may not be bothered about these but they do limit the market appeal.

It should look, feel and drive like a new car and I dare say you'd end up spending high teens buying and refreshing a typical 60-70k miler to something approaching that standard taking into account a suspension refresh, clutch, flywheel, discs and pads, wheel refurb, front end paint, etc.. And you'd still be left with a 60-70k miler. A Gen 2 3.4S with that spec and mileage is going to be asking £8-12k more; a 2.9 maybe £4-8k. At around £20k, providing you can live with the spec, I think it would be a reasonable deal.

[Steve H]

DRH986 said:

It should look, feel and drive like a new car and I dare say you'd end up spending high teens buying and refreshing a typical 60-70k miler to something approaching that standard taking into account a suspension refresh, clutch, flywheel, discs and pads, wheel refurb, front end paint, etc..

I'm not sure you can go with the assumption that a 70k car would need suspension, clutch, flywheel etc yet, mine is happy on all of these with 70k on it; brakes, paint wheels will be entirely down to the previous owners care and service history.

A 12k car is probably more likely to have corroded brakes, low mileage says town driving to me so more clutch wear and wheel kerbing per mile and potentially lots of cold starts which would be the biggest red flag for me on the dreaded bore scoring worries.