100,000 mile 991?

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Our company car 991 (base model Carrera) is coming to the end of its lease term. It's just done over 100,000 miles on a 62 plate, still feels rock solid and has been main-dealer serviced all its life. Apart from some stone chips you'd never have a clue as to its mileage.

We have the option of buying it for hopefully a bit of a discount, which we were thinking about then selling on for a little bit of a profit. If I look at the cheapest 991s on here for example, it does feel like there's a bit of financial headroom to make a small profit.

I really don't want to buy it and then not be able to sell it because of the relatively high mileage though, and I haven't have the space to just hang onto it, however much we like it.

So my specific question is - would such a high mileage be an absolute show-stopper for you, even at a decent discount to similarly-aged vehicles?

Cheers

Jason

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Thanks everyone. I'm still waiting for a final price from the lease company, but it looks like there might be a little bit of financial headroom in there.

It is a very low spec car though - Guards Red, manual box. I think the only option is heated seats and phone connectivity!!

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I don't want to incur the wrath of the mods by this thread unintentionally morphing into an ad but I'll let you know what I decide to do - may be a few weeks though.

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ooid said:

Great to hear there is no issue with the car with so high miles in such a short-time.

Would be great actually if you can share some of the basic issues or maintenance that required in mostly the engine, for the future buyers?

There's not very much to tell really. It's been routine-serviced every 20,000 as per the schedule. The only issue it's had that I can remember is that it had some symptoms like a MAF sensor failure for a while, basically ran quite rough, wouldn't idle smoothly and was very slowly getting worse. It went into the garage (Porsche Silverstone) a couple of times for them to diagnose but until it got bad enough for the warning light to come on they couldn't find the issue to fix it I wish I could remember what they said the root cause was now, MAF sensor was my amateur diagnosis... It could have been a crack in the induction manifold?? Can't remember, sorry.

Beyond that, it doesn't use any oil, has started first time every time. It does mainly motorway miles so it's easy on its tyres too - think the rears are something like 20,000 and the fronts something like 40,000! It's probably averaged highish-20s MPG. Best I've seen was 36, lowest about 17

The interior's showing no signs of wear (no saggy seats or anything like that). Gear change is still as slick as it ever was.

It's been a cracking car, will be sad to see it go.

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Yes, that's the one. Someone's going to get a proper bargain.

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It wouldn't really be fair to the dealer to comment but not as much as you might think... They're good guys, I've bought a car from them previously - go and have a look/drive over Christmas. There's always nice stuff in the showroom anyway ;-)

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Mid-thirties my arse :-)