azmousss

Hi All,
New joiner here - i joined because i wanted to know/ask what do others who have a 997 have on their counter in terms of high mileage and what i may have to watch out for please.
i have a 997.1 stick shift 205K KM
Is there anyone else with 200K KM and above? Any advice or specific trips and tricks?
i love this car and hope i can keep driving it.
everything seems to be working well and i have a porsche specialized garage following it and am keeping up with services regularly.
i bought it second hand and have driven 60K KM plus with it ( close to 20K KM per year )
many thanks to all

sandwedge

I'm nowhere near where you're at but since the majority of participants here are driving in the US and are used to US miles rather than KM, I think you'll get more responses if you phrase your question in US miles rather than KM. Always glad to help in any way I can though, I used an online converter and it looks like 205,000 KM converts to just over 127,000 miles.

TobyW

207,000 km here. Car is on its second engine. I think the most important thing are regular oil changes. If you drive 20k a year I would probably change the oil twice a year.

Petza914

Never go more than 5k miles between oil changes.

112k miles on my wife's 05 C2S. Great car with regular maintenance. If your 3 timing chain tensioners have never been replaced, do that.

Scb1712

Welcome aboard! If you do a search for high mileage you should find so threads. There are some on here that are over 150k miles without issue. These cars are made to be driven. I’m only at 165k km so have some driving to do

yelcab

I have 131,000 miles on mine. I know of two other 997 with over 130,000 miles on them. All three have medium to severe bore scoring. My 997 has been fixed with LNE block. That is what you have to look forward to.

Scb1712

I think Bruce is currently the high mileage champ but I don’t recall him having bore score issues.

https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...00k-miles.html

groovzilla

Having owned 3 996 C4S's with 110/118/127K miles and 1 997S w/118K miles and my current 997C4 with 107,400 miles, I can tell you that as long as the car has been sell serviced/maintained and cared for these cars feel like new at higher mileage.
Very important to check for Over revs(Manual Transmission) and Cam Deviation when PPI is performed.
*Also smart to do Bore Scope Inspection thru Spark Plug Holes for peace of mind. ----->My engine at 106K miles when purchased had all clean cylinders w/photo documentation when I did BSI.
Many happy 997 high mileage owners who did due diligence and did Bore Scope Inspection.

Only a tiny % of 997 owners with car/engine issues are on these forums. They are of course and understandably angry and pissy like yelcab----->Most 997 owners out driving and enjoying their high mileage cars.

azmousss

Dear All,
small message to thank you all for this valuable
input and information. Apologies as well if any forum protocol isn’t correctly followed. Will work to fix this as I get more acclimated.
Thank you as I will raise the questions to the garage I bring my Porsche to next service and ask if they are checking / controlling these things
im lucky that they are caring and passionate (and specialised )

azmousss

thank you