[mikefocke]

This is precisely the reason I recommend spending a couple of hundred $ getting an experienced Porsche mechanic to look at the car and drive it before you buy. That PPI can inform both the buyer and the seller what the condition and it makes the transaction a much fairer event with everyone having the same information.

None of those things sound normal based on my experiences owning 2 986 Boxsters. Mine were both tight and rattle free. (but as part of the post buying experience I had spent to have an alignment done by a guy who set up 986 race cars so he knew Porsche suspensions).

I never felt any reluctance to rev but again I had had coil packs and plugs done. Pull a plug and see what condition it is in.

My second was the same at 70k as the first at around 30k.