987 Spyder anyone know this car

[anthonyporter]

Hi all

Newbie here. Having just sold a garage toy I am now on the lookout for something to replace it...hence whittled down to manual 987 Spyder which I think ticks all the boxes for me. Question is, a white car I am considering for sale at FA Roper has multiple (5) owners in its relatively short lifespan and clearly difficult to trace its provenance. Before I make the 4 hour trip wanted to glean any further info I can.

I do know it was sold by Paragon in April this year and has now had the wheels painted back to silver. Anyone know of any history of this car? I believe the reg is LY11 EEP?

Appreciate any input on how people think 5 owners would affect values and also any info on car. Finally of course if any of you fine ladies or gents have a manual sport bucket PSE car that you are thinking of selling..do please let me know.

Thanks
Ant

[anthonyporter]

Thanks - yes it does look nicely specced, 21k miles I guess just a bit hesitant about the 5 owners, but a good inspection should help with any fears I guess. You think the price is fair all things considered?

[anthonyporter]

Thanks for reassurances. Not worried about the roof comments, its not a daily driver. Will def look to get a check over and overrev report - thanks. Anyone any experience of Jasmine Porschalink who would be reasonably close to get a report done on the car? Lets see where this goes then.

[anthonyporter]

Thanks all for your positive points - strange how a few strangers comments can convince you to part with up to 40 something big ones. Quite a big purchase for me so lets see where we get to tomorrow.

[anthonyporter]

left4dead said:

Provided inspection doesn't throw anything up I'd say that was a very good price indeed.

I have a similar spec car (although with black wheels, chrono & sans satnav) with 17k miles and 2 previous owners which I'll be asking more for after it has had its OPC service this Thursday.

Have sent you a PM

[anthonyporter]

So, deal done subject to satisfactory inspection. Will keep you updated ...fingers crossed and excited now!

[anthonyporter]

FocusRS3 said:

OP, this sold within a day -
http://www.911virgin.com/porscheforsale/1174/987Sp...

Hope you bought your car ?

Sure have, had car the car inspected and they felt it was one of the nicest they have seen - rev range check all excellent too. One minor issue which is being dealt with courtesy of the dealer (who so far have been excellent), so very excited about picking it up later next week. Will post pics as soon as back on home turf. Thanks to all for reinforcing my decision to buy! Safety in numbers eh ;-).

[anthonyporter]

oooer. thats good to hear. Have sent you a PM

Thanks
Ant

[anthonyporter]

FocusRS3 said:

Sorry Ant I missed this will check later and come back to you

Bit of confusion here, sorry. My message was in response to a post that now seems to have disappeared about someone previously owning the car - which turned out to be another car. Thanks, but PM went to someone else. Confused? Me too! 😁

[anthonyporter]

Had the car delivered yesterday evening and only had a chance to have an hour out today. First impressions are exactly what I hoped they would be. General feeling of litheness - although I do wonder if steering feel might be a bit better on 18s (not that I would dream of changing the beaut 19 Spyder wheels!). Ride is better than I expected. As it was a little greasy out in parts today and wanting to go easy, not really got an impression of hustling on, but feels very easy and rewarding to drive.

Car has PSE, but maybe missing popping and banging at lower revs, but thats probably because what it replaced was a V8 289 cobra rep that sounded throaty thoroughout the range. 987 sounds lovely at higher range though - just encourages me to drive that bit quicker.

Absolutely delighted with the car I have bought and the inspection came back as one of the nicest they have seen. Promise pics will be up as soon as weather does them justice. Been in touch with local Porsche dealer and hope to get onto warranty scheme when I can in 3 months. Interested to hear from anyone else who has bought a car outside of the network and then put onto official warranty.

[anthonyporter]

Bedlamater said:

Congratulations with your purchase and welcome to the club...

Was thinking of moving mine on a few weeks back as short on space to house both it and the GT4, but just couldn't do it!!! I bought mine in June and I've just had it mot'd and a Porsche 111 point check done. Was slightly nervous as to what either could throw up especially as I have PCCBs, however I needn't as it passed both with flying colours, no issues whatsoever, even happy with the tyres still being the originals from 2010. Porsche Guildford put it up on a ramp and showed me around the car, commenting on what great condition it was it and that it looked as though it had been kept in a garage most of its 14000 miles, which was nice! Getting the good news has made me love it that little bit more..

I've slapped a 24 month Porsche warranty on it to boot.

That’s good to hear. As a Surrey boy, Guildford is my local main dealer, but also got a reasonable feel about Byfleet service centre when I test drove a manual 981 in there. Going to do the official warranty too, so it will be one of the two. Any good experiences of either out there?