Originally Posted by Mike K

I hear dental floss works well at removal.

Originally Posted by ssherman68

I wanted to thank everyone for their help and input. After about 2 months of research and about six weeks of searching I finally found my 996. It's a 1999 (10/98 build) slate grey Carrera coupe with 36K miles. Stock except for new mufflers, full leather black interior that looks pretty close to pristine, dual row IMSB replaced a few years ago. The PPI at Black Forest here in San Diego found no issues (the guy has a 996 with 240K miles as a daily driver). Everything works but the horn (I needed that on the drive home) and the headlight washers. The seller still had a loan on it so that was a bit of a pain.It passed smog on Friday and AAA got it registered yesterday. It's now all mine and a blast to drive!

My plan is to drive it to work a few times a week, drive it on the weekends and on longer trips out to my family, Vegas, etc where it makes sense. I'm figuring on 5K miles/year. I want to keep it stock except for the stereo. I want to put something in that has CarPlay so I'm not futzing with navigation, etc on my phone while I'm driving. It seems like the PO was decent about oil changes but wasn't a stickler for the scheduled maintenance items. I'm hoping to start working my way through the one year, two year and annual stuff soon. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions. I also need to fix the horn.

Now for the obligatory pictures. This is my first time posting pictures in the forum so hopefully they're the right size...