119k Mile Boxster S purchase

[Perfectlap]

Let's see if I'd a payed $2,000 for my 2000 S with 60K miles two years ago, I would have ended up paying $14K for it today. Granted some of these things were normal and probably shouldn't count like tires but this car can get expensive quickly. The funny thing is that a PPI would not have caught most of the repairs I had to make. The AOS, coolant tank, MAF, starter, alternator, control arms, throttle body, they all went suddenly, and strangely at about the same time. I'm not sure how they check the shocks for instance in a PPI but when I had the car up on the lift a very experienced Porsche mechanic I use did a quick inspection and commented how good the shocks seemed being 10 years old. It wasn't until the shocks were out that we saw that they either failed quickly thereafter or you just can't really tell while their on the car because about six months later them front shocks were fried when they came off. I ended up spending about $5K last year and about $6K this year not including spending a bit more on an upgrade or two in the exhaust department. But bear mind this is a winter-driven Porsche which IMHO means a better maintained engine (year round driving) but the rest of the car takes a beating. I'm going to limit my average distances this winter. We had a hellish winter last year and I probably should not have been more conservative.

p.s.
I would not wait until the clutch goes to upgrade the IMS. I've said this before but I think its penny wise pound foolish to pass up on the oppourtunity to address a potentially catastrophic weak point just to save a few hundred bucks on a delayed clutch job. I would spend the $1600 for the clutch/LN IMS before I even drove it home.