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Originally Posted by Meat Head
My car looks as if it rolled off the showroom floor, has actually 27k miles (in most cars low mileage is a good thing lol).
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M96 equipped engines are not most cars. The way a car looks is one thing. The condition of a low mileage engine after nearly 15 years is quiet another. If your engine goes it won't matter how pristine the rest of the car looks, it's a roller/parts car that won't sell for anything near $13K. Actually its shocking how little these cars are worth minus an engine. It's almost as if you're buying an engine and they're nice enough to toss in two seats and a steering wheel.
Wear on items like shocks, tires, seat leather can be repaired, great if they're pristine like yours but they aren't "Game Over" to your investment even in they're bad shape. Put it this way, many Porsche buyers will avoid a low mileage car in pristine shape that had only annual oil changes, using an oil from the dealer now believed to be inferior for long oil change intervals, sat for weeks or months at a time, constantly short shifted, the tach barely visited north of 3K RPM, etc. and will instead opt for a daily driven 2.5 with plenty of blemishes with plenty more oil changes and a list of repairs on known Boxster weak spots.
unsolicited Advice: if someone looks at your car without a Prepurchase Inspection and is otherwise unfamiliar with Porsche, don't negotiate too hard if they make an offer in your general ballpark. If the next owner is someone looking to use it as a daily driver and starts ramping up the mileage at some accelerated rate its not seen before, they may be a candidate for a surprise.
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