Looking for 993 Daily Driver
10-20-2010 | 04:07 PM
#16
Three Wheelin'
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,610
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From: Portland, OR
+1, Why buy a mint car for a Daily?
10-20-2010 | 09:22 PM
#18
Guest
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Warning! I have already done a PPI on this car
Short version of the story - originally this car was being sold by a doctor near Savannah Georgia, 1 owner, 22k miles going for 32,900.
The seller represented the car to me as spotless both cosmetic and mechanically. He kept pushing off my request to have a PPI done, he said he was a doctor with no extra time. He kept the car spotless and had service done periodically. I almost didn't have the PPI done, but I decided to call the Porsche dealership he had service done at. Records or lack of records proved a much different story. He finally agreed to the PPI. The mechanic actually stopped after 35 minutes with a list of over 8k in repairs, calls me to ask if I wanted to continue. He didn't want to charge me for a compression, leakdown knowing how much I was already in the hole for if I bought the car.
Looks like a dealer has bought it, and now is being resold. To be fair, maybe those issues were fixed..
Regardless, its my duty to send up a flare for a fellow rennlister. If you're really interested in the car, PM me and we can talk more about the details. 
Last edited by Spidey 993; 10-20-2010 at 09:57 PM. Reason: clarify
10-20-2010 | 10:01 PM
#19
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 179
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From: Austin,TX
Careful! This is one of the cars I was interested in buying about a month ago, had a PPI done, and with really bad results.
Short version of the story - originally this car was being sold by a doctor near Savannah Georgia, 1 owner, 22k miles going for 32,900.
The seller represented the car to me as spotless both cosmetic and mechanically. He kept pushing off my request to have a PPI done, he said he was a doctor with no extra time. He kept the car spotless and had service done periodically. I almost didn't have the PPI done, but I decided to call the Porsche dealership he had service done at. Records or lack of records proved a much different story. He finally agreed to the PPI. The mechanic actually stopped after 35 minutes with a list of over 8k in repairs, calls me to ask if I wanted to continue. He didn't want to charge me for a compression, leakdown knowing how much I was already in the hole for if I bought the car.
Looks like a dealer has bought it, and now is being resold. To be fair, maybe those issues were fixed.. Regardless, its my duty to send up a flare for a fellow rennlister. If you're really interested in the car, PM me and we can talk more about the details.
Short version of the story - originally this car was being sold by a doctor near Savannah Georgia, 1 owner, 22k miles going for 32,900.
The seller represented the car to me as spotless both cosmetic and mechanically. He kept pushing off my request to have a PPI done, he said he was a doctor with no extra time. He kept the car spotless and had service done periodically. I almost didn't have the PPI done, but I decided to call the Porsche dealership he had service done at. Records or lack of records proved a much different story. He finally agreed to the PPI. The mechanic actually stopped after 35 minutes with a list of over 8k in repairs, calls me to ask if I wanted to continue. He didn't want to charge me for a compression, leakdown knowing how much I was already in the hole for if I bought the car.
Looks like a dealer has bought it, and now is being resold. To be fair, maybe those issues were fixed..
Regardless, its my duty to send up a flare for a fellow rennlister. If you're really interested in the car, PM me and we can talk more about the details. wow Thanks for the red flag. I was not personally looking at that as it was out of my price range but 8k repairs on a 22k car? I guess it needed a 30k service badly and then some...btw what happened to the "too good to be true deal" over at Jim Kennedy?
10-20-2010 | 10:42 PM
#20
Pro
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 658
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From: Ottawa,Ontario
Short version of the story - originally this car was being sold by a doctor near Savannah Georgia, 1 owner, 22k miles going for 32,900.
The seller represented the car to me as spotless both cosmetic and mechanically. He kept pushing off my request to have a PPI done, he said he was a doctor with no extra time.
The seller represented the car to me as spotless both cosmetic and mechanically. He kept pushing off my request to have a PPI done, he said he was a doctor with no extra time.
Good for you getting a PPI done. Unless the doctor that owned the car was Dr. Ferdinand Porsche you should always have the car properly checked out, and even if he owned it, there would probably be some maintenance issues seeing as how he died about 50 years ago...
