You have bought a car from Low Miler? I know a few folks that have and were very happy with the car and the transaction. I suppose every business can have its detractors. I have seen nothing but above average cars from him personally...I have looked a few myself. Next you will say to stay away from Wilhoit because his stuff is just to expensive...

 

Thanks for telling me. It looked pretty good from the photo. This has been a great thread--very instructive. It's amazing what real aficionados of the car can see that laymen, even somewhat knowledgeable laymen, miss:

I thought the car was in good shape, and looked fairly stock--though the red piping looked out of place.

Anyway, there are a couple of other 928s locally that I am going to look at-- an auto 1984 in southport for 13K, a manual 87 in NY for 12k, and an auto 87 in central CT. The 83 is at a classic car dealership, the manual 87 has a scratch on it and apparently has not had a timing belt service, and the auto 87 has had a rebuild of both the motor and tranny. However, it needs a new AC compressor, driver side door latch and has "minor" body damage on the passenger side. The last one may be a diamond in the rough--even though it may cost some money to get fixed, it has a relatively new drivetrain, and I have a good chunk of the winter to get the other issues sorted out.

 

Irony there.. my '89 has red piping on black leather seats from factory Contrasting piping isn't uncommon on 928's.

 

In a couple of years you will be looking at getting things done that are not on the scheduled maintenance list: full A/C job, intake refresh, oil pan gasket, suspension work, etc. These 10-15yr/100,000 mile lifetime items are in your future if you want to keep the car in tip-top shape. They ARE coming. It is only a question of when and if you are going to let'em slide or not.

The mileage put on the car every year has little effect one way or the other on many of those items. Time is the issue, not heat cycles.

You will also be instructing your wrench to install a silicon oil pan gasket at the same time, yes?

 

Oh yeah. Sean and Roger are my "wrenches" so the car couldn't be in better hands

 

Thanks Dave. It does feel good to be "done" with maintenance and mods. What a long road (if you are picky), and my car was nice and drivable when I bought it in '04. There is much to do on a 20 year old 928.
Now I just get in , turn on the a/c and go... So boring, really- but I have no time to rehab another car these days. I can get my wrench fix with my friends 928s.

Of course there is no such thing as "done", but more like "caught up".