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Old 04-05-2018, 02:38 PM
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I am the new owner of a 2002 996 Turbo with 172000 miles. This is a 2 owner California car, with the second owner having it from the 11000 mile mark. The second owner put approx 162000 miles on it. Now I have it.


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Originally Posted by nelsontod
I am the owner of a 2002 996 Turbo with 172000 miles.
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And I for one think it is a most excellent start.
(Love the thread title, too, BTW!)
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kevin said it would be ok to do a 1 bar UMW tune.
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I have over 100k miles, my hp adding set up is tune, intercoolers and exhaust (i run a 100 oct race gas tune sometimes as well as a pump gas tune), plus tracked the car 14 times in the last 12 months on r-comps.

Do your maintenance, stay on top of things and refresh what needs to be refreshed before you dive in and these things are fairly bulletproof.
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Originally Posted by nelsontod
just my initial thread. I will be adding more.
That would have been nice to know from the start.

How long have you had this 996 Turbo?
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Originally Posted by T10Chris
I have over 100k miles, my hp adding set up is tune, intercoolers and exhaust (i run a 100 oct race gas tune sometimes as well as a pump gas tune), plus tracked the car 14 times in the last 12 months on r-comps.

Do your maintenance, stay on top of things and refresh what needs to be refreshed before you dive in and these things are fairly bulletproof.

sound advice, and that is my plan. let the dust settle. and start getting it checked out.
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Originally Posted by nelsontod
I am the new owner of a 2002 996 Turbo with 172000 miles. This is a 2 owner California car, with the second owner having it from the 11000 mile mark. The second owner put approx 162000 miles on it. Now I have it.
Congrats on the 996 Turbo.
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Congrats! And I'm sure not many people are that high up yet. I look at 996's for sale all the time and there are definitely not many up there.
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Congrats on the purchase.
I purchased mine in 2005 w/ 20k miles. Sold it with 97k miles, very cheap (to a friend). It now has 110k miles from what i'm told and still running strong.
Tracked dozens of times and new owner tracks as well. Very strong cars.
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Thank you all for the congrats.
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Congrats. You do know that the previous owner is on this board right? Most of the maintenance he did is listed on here
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is that macster's old car?


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