When he showed up he had his 2 kids with him and immediately shut the car off after arriving. I got the distinct impression by his kids being there that a test drive was not in the cards. This was further reenforced by him never offering me the key and generally having an air of being in a rush. He also asked a few times how serious you were which gave me the impression he looked at me as more of a lookey-loo than a path to selling his car. The way he rushed to show me the frunk gave me the impression that he was trying to hide something (and having a 996 I knew exactly what). So generally I was not impressed with him in a “professional” manner. So given that no test drive happened, all I can comment on the is the appearance and it did not wow me.

Outside:

1) The headlights are starting to yellow and appear to have some spotting in the finish. Maybe they were previously polished and are starting to decay again.

2) I’m not familiar with the factory Aerokit on the TT so I don’t know if it’s front treatment is factory or not. It appeared to be solid though.

3) There are scuff marks on the driver’s door along the lines of door dings, but I did not see actual dents.

4) There are various scuffs and nicks all over the car to suggest regular use. Again, no sign of dents in the metal work.

5) The rubber strip between the plastic trim around the frunk latch and bumper is dry rotted and broken up. That’s mostly a non-issue, but it suggests to me that the bumper may have been removed in the past. No idea if that would have been to clean the rads or repaint/replace the bumper.

6) The frunk struts are dead. Not just can’t hold it up in cold weather or will take your head off because you aren’t suspecting it, but dead.

7) Both passenger calipers have large patches where the paint is faded. The driver side did not seem to have this issue.

8) The rear bumper has significant damage. There is some scuffing on the passenger side. The lower driver’s corner has a hand sized area that is broken and pealing away from the skin. Additionally the upper area nearer to the tail light has some light spider webbing going on in the paint. I would have missed it if I didn’t have experience with it on ours. So from experience with ours there are 2 things this tells me. First is that this is NOT the factory paint on the bumper. The factory paint just doesn’t crack and peal the way the lower area does. Secondly the bumper itself is damaged and will need to be replaced, it’s not just a simple repaint (you could do that, but the paint will fail).

9) The rear bumper-ettes were pretty faded and had rub marks on them.

10) I did not test it, but when asked he said the wing pistons are not working.

11) The coolant pipes have neither been pinned nor welded. From what I could see (and I thought the NA engine bay was cramped!) it looked pretty clean in there and I didn’t see obvious signs of leaks.

12) There was no option sticker on the underside of the hood. I am only assuming it would be in the same place on the TTs as it is on the NA cars. To the NA crowd that says the hood may have been replaced or repainted.

13) There is no spare in the car as he has an Amp and crossovers installed in that area. The tools and inflator were also missing. He did not say if he still had them or not.

Inside:

Inside and outside are night and day from each other. Other than some light bars that have been added for foot well lighting, the sub woofer enclosure behind the rear seats, and the Rennline plate in the passenger footwell everything looks like stock options.

The light bars are cheap looking in my opinion, but don’t look difficult to remove.

The subs are pressed against the rear seat backs when they are up and appear to have rubbed them a bit. Nothing serious, but it’s there.

I also noticed some spotting on the seat surface of the passenger seat but it’s light enough a pro might be able to remove them.

Overall, though, the interior was very clean and (sans being able to turn it on and drive it) everything appeared to be good order.

Summary:

I have a hard time offering a monetary assessment. If it were me an my money, however, I’d lowball it to try to get another 3-5k off which would cover fixing the rear bumper properly. Assuming that it checks out mechanically I think it could be a good project car, but overall I don’t feel like it is a good example.

At a minimum I would not recommend proceeding without a PPI (I offered some suggestions previously) and honestly wouldn’t waste my time/money if it were me.