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Congrats. With that high mileage you will certainly be needing the toolbox in your pic stocked with all the Porsche specialty tools.
heaven forbid you had to put $20K into a new engine on this one, you'd be the same cash-wise but have a car with a brand-new upgraded engine good for 200K. No way you can lose on this car.
WTF? So he will have a $40,000 car with 100,000 miles on it? So again, wtf?
^ I think he is comparing it to the conventional "wisdom" of paying twice as much for a low-mileage car. And then realizing that time can be as hard on parts as mileage is (sometimes worse for garage queens). Which, in the end, the low mileage car costs you twice as much to buy, then costs you again in replacing aged-out parts.
You see it time and again on here - somebody pays a premium for a low-mileage car versus a 100k mile car (maybe not double, but close). Then, they end up putting another $10k into it replacing some parts that broke due to age and then replacing a whole bunch of WYAIT parts "because they might break at some point in the future". (Oops, silly me, no need to explain that to you, KK, I know you're familiar with that concept)
Anyhow, with the 100k mile car, you just drive the damn thing til something breaks. Then you fix the part that breaks. It is amazing how well cars will hold up if you just drive them. My '99 C4 aero had 148k when I sold it, my S430 daily has over 190k miles, my son's E53 X5 4.4 has over 190k miles and my wife's Saab 9-7x has 165k+ miles on it. They all run great. I lose no sleep over the miles I put on them. I don't bother with preemptive transmission fluid changes or swapping out the radiator coolant every spring or shampooing the trunk carpet every 3 months. We just drive them.
Of course, with the Turbo, now that's a different story.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to driving the wheels off on this thing. I'm confident that if I keep up with regular basic maintenance, and replace things as they make noises/break, the car will deliver many smiles per miles.
What I was saying is if the engine in my car were to fail tomorrow, I would lose about $20K if I were to sell the car as a roller and replace it with the same car with the same miles with a working engine which I have no way of predicting how long will last. For the same $20K I could put in an upgraded, "bulletproofed" reman engine with the likelihood of lasting 200K miles. Paper losses don't keep me up at night
"Anyhow, with the 100k mile car, you just drive the damn thing til something breaks. Then you fix the part that breaks."
Agreed! I bought my '02 2 1/2 years ago for about the same price and with almost exactly the same miles. I'm now at 149,800, and it runs like a top. Yes, I've put some $$$ into it, but nothing I didn't expect. I LOVE this car!!!
Oh, and I still have my '91 Miata SE after 15 years, and I'm keeping it. Don't drive it much, but when I do I remember how good a car it is. Different animal from the 996, of course, but still a keeper.
Same here new 4 me 911 - 99' - 105K mileage and after reading the issues decided WTH just enjoy and fix
Issues as they come - just love the sound and steering -really what a great value for a supercar cheers and enjoy
10-26-2015, 01:52 PM
