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I am soon to be a first time Porsche owner after 2 years of watching / reading / learning. I have narrowed my search to a 997.1 or 997.2 TT cab. This is the first one I have narrowed in on and below are the over revs. Should I be concerned? Seems high? ...but I am a newbie. Car has 16k miles.
I am soon to be a first time Porsche owner after 2 years of watching / reading / learning. I have narrowed my search to a 997.1 or 997.2 TT cab. This is the first one I have narrowed in on and below are the over revs. Should I be concerned? Seems high? ...but I am a newbie. Car has 16k miles.
Considering Range 4's are being reported less than 10 minutes ago, according to operating hours, yes. Yes they are cause for concern. If this is at a dealership, I'd say the test drives being conducted are beyond spirited.
If it's private party, either the seller isn't going along for test drives, or he himself is beating the **** out of it before he sells it.
On a side note, you may want to be posting any questions regarding the car you're looking at in the 997 Turbo forum...this is the 997 forum. Naturally aspirated, non-turbo 997's.
Although the Turbos have a completely different engine (the highly regarded Mezger) I'd still be concerned. Someone has been hard on it recently. Judging from the range 1 over-revs at 26k plus, I'd say it's been tracked, or ridden hard on the street, a few or more times.
That, or missing shifts is a hobby for the current owner.
Being 175 hours ago I would not worry one bit. Now if it was 6 minutes ago then yes. Although overrev failures can happen at any time they tend to happen within 50-100 hours of the overrev or so I have read.
Considering Range 4's are being reported less than 10 minutes ago, according to operating hours, yes. Yes they are cause for concern. If this is at a dealership, I'd say the test drives being conducted are beyond spirited.
If it's private party, either the seller isn't going along for test drives, or he himself is beating the **** out of it before he sells it.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Dealer offered to take $1k off the price when I raised concerns. I was thinking more like $3k or $4k to buy a warranty.
I agree with the others. It isn’t so much the rev count it is the fact that it literally just had occurred. Someone was beating the **** out of that car on a test drive for the range 1-4. The range 5/6 could have been an actual misshift. Are you sure they ran that properly, it definitely seems strange that it literally had just happened.
The other thing to consider is that those revs are on there forever. $3k-$4k for a warranty is one thing, but what about the likely diminished resale on it?
03-07-2019, 03:34 PM
997.2 Are these over revs a concern?
