Boxster Newbies Buyers guide / Advice
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Hi All,
I will be shortly (Thursday) "coming over to the dark side" (words of Jamie at Bell & Colville) and swapping my Lotus Elise 111s (2004) for a 2010 2.9 Boxster.
I'm buying the red one from Maundrell and Co that was listed in classifieds on this site.
http://www.maundrelland.co.uk/porsche-boxster-24v-...
As a complete newbie when it comes to Porsche generally and Boxsters specifically... is there anything I should look out for / keep an eye on?
The one I'm buying has done 60k miles (bit hight but then I only do about 5k per year myself so no biggie), Maundrell (who I am very impressed with I have to say) have MOT'd it (no advises) and will service and PDI it so I'm pretty reassured.
I thought the clutch was very heavy but then given the Elise's is like a feather to most cars I'm not surprised and the brakes I thought juddered a little perhaps through lack of use and a gain the non servo'd Elise brakes might be getting in the way...
I've asked about the age of the tyres too... not sure the MOT checks tyre age but I figure they can only be 4 years old maximum (not the 10 years old the Elise ones were when I first bought it!)
Anything else I need to ask about?
Thanks in advance for all your advise.
Paul.
I will be shortly (Thursday) "coming over to the dark side" (words of Jamie at Bell & Colville) and swapping my Lotus Elise 111s (2004) for a 2010 2.9 Boxster.
I'm buying the red one from Maundrell and Co that was listed in classifieds on this site.
http://www.maundrelland.co.uk/porsche-boxster-24v-...
As a complete newbie when it comes to Porsche generally and Boxsters specifically... is there anything I should look out for / keep an eye on?
The one I'm buying has done 60k miles (bit hight but then I only do about 5k per year myself so no biggie), Maundrell (who I am very impressed with I have to say) have MOT'd it (no advises) and will service and PDI it so I'm pretty reassured.
I thought the clutch was very heavy but then given the Elise's is like a feather to most cars I'm not surprised and the brakes I thought juddered a little perhaps through lack of use and a gain the non servo'd Elise brakes might be getting in the way...
I've asked about the age of the tyres too... not sure the MOT checks tyre age but I figure they can only be 4 years old maximum (not the 10 years old the Elise ones were when I first bought it!)
Anything else I need to ask about?
Thanks in advance for all your advise.
Paul.
Hi,
yeah, well I've put the deposit down... and will be picking up on Thursday (and paying the balance). To be honest it had to be red. I'd have gone for Black but Red was my preference and on a 10 plate too I think it's a very nice car.
Obviously I don't know the car as well as I know the Elise for example so it's really just a question of getting to know it and getting Boxster owners to give me the benefit of their wisdom :-).
The car has (I hope) has blutooth phone prep (there's a couple of buttons with telephones on them on the stereo, guessing that's what that means) but no sat nav. The Elise doesn't have that either but I wondered if there was a cheap(ish) way of adding sat nav to the head unit in place or is it a question of going down the after market route?
Paul.
yeah, well I've put the deposit down... and will be picking up on Thursday (and paying the balance). To be honest it had to be red. I'd have gone for Black but Red was my preference and on a 10 plate too I think it's a very nice car.
Obviously I don't know the car as well as I know the Elise for example so it's really just a question of getting to know it and getting Boxster owners to give me the benefit of their wisdom :-).
The car has (I hope) has blutooth phone prep (there's a couple of buttons with telephones on them on the stereo, guessing that's what that means) but no sat nav. The Elise doesn't have that either but I wondered if there was a cheap(ish) way of adding sat nav to the head unit in place or is it a question of going down the after market route?
Paul.
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