islaTurbine

That's typically where the small, thin sticker for the LN IMS replacement is placed.

JimmyB

Nowhere near as high as some, but I hit a significant number this morning:




[edit: actually I should come back in 33 miles, really... I blame lack of coffee.]

Woodman71

Ah, I was but a noob when I posted that.

Mine also has one on the inside of the engine deck lid.

jaetee

Does this count?

I looked at a 2000 C2 Coupe in Clearwater, FL with 105k miles on the odometer. But when I looked at carfax/autocheck to further investigate it's history, both agencies reported 212,XXX miles on the car back in 2012 or 2013 (can't remember) which was before the current owner says he bought the car. The cluster (white dials) had obviously been changed at some point.

The owner had no clue and seemed genuinely surprised when I brought the car fax situation to his attention. The look on his face was not acting.

When I asked to see service docs, I was told the car was maintained by a Russian mechanic friend who's shop is down the street from the car owner. Work done under the table and nobody kept docs. He said he's selling the car because he got an AMG 4-door now and the porsche doesn't suit his family needs any longer.

I drove the car and it ran fantastic, it went through the gears smoothly and it had a VERY strong feeling engine with aftermarket exhaust and a K&N intake kit installed. Engine may have been replaced at some point, no clue... If I were making a track car, that might be a good candidate to put a cage in and put on some go-faster parts and rubber bits all around. It was advertised at $11.9k not too long ago, probably still for sale.

But the suspension felt like it had 400k on it, and the paint job had been touched up horribly. I think his car might be marginally faster than the one I ended up buying, but mine rides much tighter and is 3 letter grades nicer looking with lower miles and a clean carfax.

So, pertinent to this thread... that C2 coupe has got 212,XXX plus three or four more years of driving around hot and sunny Florida on the clock. And is still running strong.

5CHN3LL

Dammit, Kalashnikov!

LRBill

Mine just turned over 150,000 this past weekend.....

centexsi

I am in the car business and go to a few auctions a week - I was at an auction in San Antonio this week and saw a black 01 C2 Cab with a Tip with the odometer reading 313k. I should have taken a picture of it - the car was in good shape other than the typical wear on the leather seats. Air was cold and no warning lights on. The car ended up selling for $6500.

TheMystro

These threads are awesome. It would take three times the time line to see those kind of miles on a 1980's 911.
These significantly newer 996's are amazing on many levels. Just shows that the newer 911s actually want to be driven beyond the typical "Nice weather weekend car" duties. Butzi would be pleased.

This explains why it was hard for me to find a very low mile, pristine 996 C4S.

Zanzibar Red 996

I started this Post on November 9, 2013 as a way
To Counteract all the negative posts about engine problems
As I suspected these are great engines which can last a long time with old school maintance

MoeMonney

165,000 on Mine. Less than 1,000 miles on the rebuild after it developed a crack on cylinder 1. Seats and Steering wheel were redone but other than that the car looks pretty much in excellent shape. Most people still think its new especially with the LED lights and the litrnonics.

mrjonger

Question for those of you that actually put the high miles on your car. Anyone use it to commute regularly in bumper to bumper traffic?

thierrypoitras

105k miles (175k km) on mine. Feels awesome to read all the posts.
I had the clutch and flywheel recently done, as well as IMSB and RMS.
Car feels strong and tight.

Gulliver

I'm about an hour south of Nashville, in a fairly rural area with lots of good roads. And some not so good.. I get to Nashville fairly regular for appts with the cancer doc and business meetings, looking at cars for sale, etc. My 996 does really good as a daily, even in the 'heavy at times' traffic coming in and out at rush our. Downtown streets are a little nasty and rough, but the car presents no driveability issues that I've found.

Macster

Often, much more so now than in the past, some of my daily work commute invovles bumper to bumper traffic. Often not a lot, a mile or two as for some reason traffic on the freeway just slows to a near crawl.

The Boxster is pretty easy to drive in bumper to bumper as the clutch is easy to control and little slippage is required and I can get the car moving from a stop with very little clutch slippage and throttle. I also try to let the vehicles ahead get a bit ahead before moving off to cut down on the number of times i have to get the car rolling from a dead stop which cuts down on wear and tear on the clutch.

The Turbo too is pretty easy to drive in bumper to bumper traffic. The clutch is boosted which means the clutch action in the Turbo is less than in the Boxster. And I don't have any problem with the Turbo's clutch control. My style of driving in Turbo is similar to the that when in the Boxster so I make as little use of the clutch as possible. In both cars I *never* slip the clutch to slowly inch the car forward. I always wait until there is sufficient room to get the car moving and to be able to fully release the clutch even if I then shortly have to bring the car to a stop again.

When I'm stopped I whenever traffic permits slip the gear box into neutral and release the clutch. This lets the friction disc transfer heat to the flywheel and pressure plate. (I've seen "abused" clutches in one case a driver got caught in Bay Bridge bumper to bumper traffic and managed to overheat the clutch to the point when the transmission was removed and the clutch disassembled the frictioni disc material had delaminated from the excessive heat build up.)

Shortly after I bought the Turbo I managed to get into some horrific bumper to bumper traffic on 50 highway on the way to Lake Tahoe and points east one July 3rd day and this goingi *up* highway 50. The car was fine but after some miles of this bumper to bumper traffic the idle speed increased to around 1K as the engine controller increased the idle speed to improve engine cooling and possibly to have the alternator to generate more electricity. I had the A/C on, the radiator fans were running and so was the engine compartment fan. The car was fine but I spotted a number of cars on the side of the road with the classic signs of overheating problems. Once I made it to the summit traffic thinned out and that was that.

The Turbo clutch is original and has over 147K miles on it. Likewise the Boxster clutch is original and has over 303K miles on it.

Granted my mile or two of bumper to bumper during my (most of the time morning commute but sometimes even in the evening commute) is not nearly as bad as say the bumper to bumper traffic on some LA area freeways. And I use radio traffic reports to avoid bumper to bumper traffic whenever I can but if I end up in it with either car it is not a real problem. Just a bit inconvenient.

JimmyB

Only had mine maybe three months but it was bought as a daily. My commute is ten miles into DC - if I can get out of bed early enough it's reasonably free flowing but there's always a bit of unavoidable traffic. A couple of days a week I cycle if the weather's good, occasionally I use the metro if I know I'm out late that evening. Other than that it's 996 every chance I get, although I do have to show the others some love every now and then.