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Originally Posted by BAZ8046
Just checked Parkers prices and they say private sale good condition £3,895. Older cars are harder to value as condition and history are more important. I've just paid £4,450 for a 2001 S with 100k but good history. The car is great and apart from a few minor jobs is running well. Just changed the oil and the filter was nice and clean.
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Thanks BAZ, that's really helpful. Thanks to other contributors as well.
My dad previewed it for me today and described it as being almost in showroom condition. There's a fully stamped and extensively documented service history. The plastic rear window is reported to be perfect and crystal clear, although if I buy it I'll probably replace the roof with a glass window version and try to get some cash back by reselling the original roof. It was "purring" at 90mph along wet Oxfordshire country lanes (as driven by the elderly owner!) with no rattles or untoward sounds and the only downer was a lack of aircon, but that's also one less thing to go wrong as the car gets older and improves the fuel economy a bit.
Seller is asking for £4250 ono, so I'll try and squeeze it down to a bit under £4k. It seems that we pay rather less for them on our side of the pond!
I hope to see it myself this weekend (floods and falling trees permitting...) and am currently waiting for the seller to reply to a few detailed question regarding the last exhaust and clutch replacements and whether the IMS bearing has ever been replaced/upgraded.
The only slight concern I have is that he's fitted a short-shifter to remove the "slight sloppiness that all 100k Boxsters have", but my experience of other cars using similar cable-operated gear changes is that they need replacement or adjustment.