100,000 miles tomorrow lads
12-09-2010, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by putput6 on Pelican
The actual mileage is 521,000. Yes you read that right... but this is really misleading because everything has been replaced or rebuilt at least once. The engine has less than 1,000 miles on it since the last rebuild. Drives great, has always been very reliable for me.
If you're willing to spend lots of dollars, and replace/rebuild components large and small without regard to the financial wisdom, you can literally keep a car running forever. I have taken a number of cars to 200,000 miles without spending a lot of money to get them there. For what it would have cost to get it to the next 200K miles -- well, boys, I just bought a new car instead. Same dollars, less cache, fewer worries.
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12-09-2010, 01:42 PM
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Larry, I think that is unique to these high dollar part/labor cars that we drive. An American made car is different. I have a Yukon with 200,000 miles on it and it would almost always pay to fix it rather than buy new. I bet every moving part on that car can be fixed for $10,000 versus paying $50,000+ for a new one. I think the economics of our Porsches is completely different as you describe.
12-09-2010, 03:31 PM
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Rwiii,
what you say may be true, but I have seen and heard of many of these cars that have gone hundreds of thousands of miles. The SC is certainly legend in that category. Maybe the 996's haven't been on the road long enough for people to consider getting this kind of mileage as routine. For me, I plan on driving year-round, at about 20K per year. That puts me 3.5 years from the 100K fraternity. Then another 5 years to get to 200K.
By that time, I will be arguing with my kids about whether I should still have my driver's license considering my "advanced age."
But after waiting for multiple decades to get my fingers wrapped around that three spoke wheel on a daily basis, I will be driving it till they pry my cold dead fingers off of it!!! 
larry
what you say may be true, but I have seen and heard of many of these cars that have gone hundreds of thousands of miles. The SC is certainly legend in that category. Maybe the 996's haven't been on the road long enough for people to consider getting this kind of mileage as routine. For me, I plan on driving year-round, at about 20K per year. That puts me 3.5 years from the 100K fraternity. Then another 5 years to get to 200K.
By that time, I will be arguing with my kids about whether I should still have my driver's license considering my "advanced age."
But after waiting for multiple decades to get my fingers wrapped around that three spoke wheel on a daily basis, I will be driving it till they pry my cold dead fingers off of it!!! larry
12-09-2010, 05:37 PM
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I'm with you Larry, just saying that you can almost always fix almost everything on an American car for tens of thousands less than what a new one would cost.
I support your point totally that you can get hundreds of thousands of miles out of a Porsche but repairs can get expensive as you point out.
I support your point totally that you can get hundreds of thousands of miles out of a Porsche but repairs can get expensive as you point out.
