Quick Advice for My Test Drive Tomorrow!!!
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In talking to the seller at great length, he impressed me as being "almost too honest," and he divulged a number of things (mostly cosmetic) that I would probably not have noticed on my test drive. He also did not want a deposit to hold the car, and it was somewhat inconvenient work-wise for him to be available today for the sale, but he worked around it. I think he would have preferred the sale to occur a week later if I could have done that. He said that if I don't show up or don't buy it, then he gets to drive it a little bit more, which was fine by him :-)
Hopefully I don't end up by the side of the road somewhere along the 900 mile drive today and tomorrow . . . . .
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I am about to pick up a 2003 996 Turbo with about 75,000 miles on the clock. The car has had more maintenance and repairs done on it in the last 2 years than Aunt Jemima has pancakes.
The car has a new clutch, new brakes, new almost everything mechanical that could need to be serviced for a car of this age.
I have had extensive, many hour-long conversations with the owner, who is quite passionate about the car, and who has described every tiny paint and interior and mechanical issue (past tense) in great detail.
I will be test driving it tomorrow.
Other than just driving it, what should I be looking for on my test drive?
Thanks!
The car has a new clutch, new brakes, new almost everything mechanical that could need to be serviced for a car of this age.
I have had extensive, many hour-long conversations with the owner, who is quite passionate about the car, and who has described every tiny paint and interior and mechanical issue (past tense) in great detail.
I will be test driving it tomorrow.
Other than just driving it, what should I be looking for on my test drive?
Thanks!
I drove mine back(only 150Mi) after a PPI then my test drive.
They all need something
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Mine passed a PPI at a respected shop in CA, within 6 hours of delivery I had a CEL, I think it's just part of the experience. It was a bad turbo cutoff valve, part was only $128 but took some labor to diagnose/replace. It will need something as 911mhawk says.
Just remember, that new car you could buy instead will cost you depreciation as opposed to the maintenance you will spend on the 911.
Just remember, that new car you could buy instead will cost you depreciation as opposed to the maintenance you will spend on the 911.
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So, I completed the transaction in Torrance (just S. of L.A.) yesterday morning. Seller (Carter Ames) was everything he said he was and car was everything he said it was. Paid for the car and left Torrance at 11:15 a.m. in the mother of all traffic jams on the 405. Could never live in L.A., sorry :-)
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
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So, I completed the transaction in Torrance (just S. of L.A.) yesterday morning. Seller (Carter Ames) was everything he said he was and car was everything he said it was. Paid for the car and left Torrance at 11:15 a.m. in the mother of all traffic jams on the 405. Could never live in L.A., sorry :-)
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
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So, I completed the transaction in Torrance (just S. of L.A.) yesterday morning. Seller (Carter Ames) was everything he said he was and car was everything he said it was. Paid for the car and left Torrance at 11:15 a.m. in the mother of all traffic jams on the 405. Could never live in L.A., sorry :-)
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
Drove the car 900 miles back to Boise, Idaho, and got back in today around 2pm.
Car is amazing, no defects noted. Everything works. More raw power than any car I have ever experienced, too much in fact. Got it up to 102 passing someone in Nevada today, on a 2 lane road. I don't think he saw me, at all.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow after I get her washed.
102...you are responsible I hit 140 on wide open Texas backroad on day 1 and quickly pissed myself.
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"too much power" the words of a newby. Give it 2 weeks and you will be checking to see if something is wrong "it doesn't seem like it has as much power as when I first got it". Another 2 months and the mod list begins. Enjoy your new car they are great. I would suggest an autocross and then a HPDE track day before settling on any mods other than cosmetic. It is impossible to experience the full performance available in these cars on public roads (without the potential for jail time, injury or death).
Pictures or it didn't happen.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
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He said something along the lines of, "Not sure how fast, but you dropped them like a rock and caught the next group before I could remember to turn on my radar".
Enjoy your new toy!