lucycan

993TT with lower miles. Would you walk from a nice car because it was not driven enough?

Is a leakdown really the only way to see if there is damage?

Someone told me a leakdown is going to be bad on a car that has not been driven, for say, a few months, but if you drove it around for a week or two the readings would improve?

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

samsnead

Car could have issues not revealed by leakdown.

Sometimes you see cars with low miles have high oil consumption with driving, then stabilizes, seals get a bit dry.

Service history is key here

YA911Fan

I view that as Porsche abuse!

lucycan

Excellent service history.

samsnead

This is a used car so you cant predict whats going to happen unless you open the motor.

A low mile car could have issues just like a higher mile car.

This is a 10-12 year old car, things break down over time.

If you like the car, feel that the price is right and it has a service history documenting the mileage get a PPI and go from there. You will more than likely be paying a premium for the low miles, but there arent that many TTs out there.

Mark Harris

Here is an except from The Gold Plated Porsche by Stephan Wilkenson. Won't help at all with your leakdown, but your question reminded me of this.......

"I have a friend who does public-relations work for Porsche in the U.S. It was once his lot to accompany Ferry Porsche (company founder Ferdinand's son and at that point chairman of the board) to a Porsche Parade. . .The prime feature of each PCA Parade is a concours d'elegance, at which the most perfect, most spectacular, most anally restored and maintained Porsches in a variety of categories are awarded prizes. Rumor has it that at one Parade, the grand prize went to a Porsche owner who bought a brand-new 911, disassembled it, perfectly repainted or replated every visible part and reassembled a car that was quite literally better than new.

"'This must make you proud,' my friend said to Ferry Porsche as they surveyed a field filled with cars awaiting judgment, their owners frantically cleaning the insides of exhaust pipes, detailing nooks and crannies with Q-tips, siliconing ignition wires, polishing tires and ensuring that the hidden undersides of their cars were cleaner than a kitchen counter. 'Six hundred beautiful cars, each with your family's name on it.'

"'It makes me sad,' Ferry said. 'Our cars were meant to be driven, not polished.'"

95 C4 993

Ford loaned the 1st Ford Mustang off the production line to a Dealership up in Canada. After the huge success of the Mustang, Ford wanted it back but the dealership sold it to a pilot in Canada. The new owner refused to sell it back to Ford and drove it through the back mountains of Canada one summer and put 10,000 miles on it (2 years of driving) before he traded it for the 1,000,000 Mustang that came off the production line. It took Ford a few years to get that vehicle and they wanted it back pretty bad because of the huge success of the Mustang. It sits today in a musuem, unrestored, with the minor nicks, scratches, and shape came back to Ford after driving through the back gravel mountains in Canada back in the 60s.

Ferry probably loved that story!

jnx

I would be concerned with the low miles. What year is the car and what is the total mileage?

GG33

Leakdown tests can vary between tests, and yes, If you drove it around for a few weeks you would most probably get a better reading.

Flying Finn

Depends what you wanna do with it.

Just remember that ff you want to keep it as a piece of art and keep the value of it, then it's a good car to buy.

If, on the other hand you want to drive it, you are paying premium for low mileage but the minute you start adding miles to it, you are gonna lose money.

lucycan

Car has 24k total on it.

I am going to drive it 1k per year.

Marlon

Yes - walk away. The car is entirely in too good a condition for a DD

samsnead

Any problems which would arise from being driven 300 miles a year would also occur if driven 1000 miles a year

lucycan

Seller refused a PPI so I walked. Thanks for the help!