verboten

Was this 997.2 a demo at dealer? Owner #1 Tires at 3000 miles? Vehicle offered for sale by dealer 5x in 4 years?

Owner#3 10k miles in 3 months and sold? 4/29--7/28 is 3 months not 2.

997_Toronto

Is your question whether you should buy this car or not?

verboten

Questions are as stated in OP. The first owner (dealer?) was offered for sale multiple times in 4 years but never titled under new owners?

rickdogg82

As long as the title is legit and the car checks out (PPI) I don't think the Carfax matters.

verboten

Car was demo. Is there diminished value on purchase price/resale and what percentage?

Bruce In Philly

Patrick does not sell Porsche...... hmmm....... I suspect the dealership owner drove the car as theirs. I've seen this before when I was shopping for a used Porsche. A BMW dealer in OH had an '09 for sale and noted 25K miles.... when I drove it there was like 29K..... and the car was off the market and then back on about a year later with way more miles. When I test drove it, they had to wash it because the "owner was driving it".

The CarFaxes are confusing as was the one for my car. I don't know how the VW dealer shows as the first owner.... odd..... Patrick is VW and Subaru.

Peace
Bruce in Philly

verboten

I can't agree more how confusing a Carfax can be.

Para82

A clean Carfax means nothing. You could drive a car into a river and as long as you don't report it the police or insurance - CLEAN CARFAX! A+

user 72902

+1

OKB

worst thing to me is there is no services. i would get with porsche and see what their service records are

gnat

You can report it to insurance and still have a clean CarFax report. CF is just a giant scam that turns people off decent cars and gives them a false sense of security on real dogs.

Our 996 has 5 insurance claims on it, yet CF shows nothing. My 958 has a claim on it, but it also shows as clean. These were all multiple years (over a decade for a couple on the 996) before the latest reports were run. Even worse is that I know 2 of the 996's accidents used to show up, but are gone now.

Petza914

CarMax is often a dumping ground for cars with problems that enlightened Porsche owners are aware of, but that CarMax may not be. You don't have to be buying a car from CarMax in order to trade in a current car - they'll buy them outright and also find some at auctions. The ownership history on this one seems odd - why go down the path with this particular car when there are so many available to choose from?

jhbrennan

I thought OP's question was about CarFax not CarMax?? BTW, where was your RKompressor done - at RAC in Dallas?

Petza914

Crap, you're right - my bad. I'll just call it a PSA on Carmax.

Yes, RAC in Dallas did it at 7k miles when they were still the RUF distributor in the US.