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[Perfectlap]

May I inquire what the seller's asking price was? No need to tell us what you negotiated.
Cars with low mileage always show interesting spreads.

[BYprodriver]

Congratulations on this nice aquisition. I'm loving that pristine rear window. If your mechanic knows these engines like you think he does, sometime before that warranty expires someone needs to remove the oil filter housing & inspect the oil filter for any foreign debris. You should put some miles on it 1st since the oil was recently changed.

[100deltacharlie]

Thanks for all of the great input. It was at a Lexus dealer in their "B" lot because of its age. asking was 18900 plus 700 dealer fee. I got the rainy sunday, junior manager wanting to sell something cash price. They covered the 60 day 2000 mile warranty and were really nice to work with. Plus I looked like a total bum that day.
As I said, I was shopping for a jeep cj 5 in stock condition. Oh Well, things change.
I did not want to get dirty anyway.
I should put my car history under my name but dont know how..Between my wife and I it is quite a list of neat cars.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by 100deltacharlie

Thanks for all of the great input. It was at a Lexus dealer in their "B" lot because of its age. asking was 18900 plus 700 dealer fee. I got the rainy sunday, junior manager wanting to sell something cash price. They covered the 60 day 2000 mile warranty and were really nice to work with. Plus I looked like a total bum that day.
As I said, I was shopping for a jeep cj 5 in stock condition. Oh Well, things change.
I did not want to get dirty anyway.
I should put my car history under my name but dont know how..Between my wife and I it is quite a list of neat cars.

If you send a nice picture in to Excellence Magazine along with your purchase price they may print it under the 'market values' section. I think they'd be interested in it since it's a low mileage car and at the high end of 986S pricing. In comparison I've seen moderate mileage 996.2 base Carreras sell for ~ $12K (an 02 if memory serves) from private sellers. Dealer sales are always significantly higher from what I've seen on Autotrader/Ebay motors. But with literally hundreds of thousands of 996/986 on the market pricing is all over the spectrum. There simply are not enough buyers to absorb that much supply, they always seem to go for low mileage cars which are getting to be rare now.

You can usually find Excellence magazine at Barnes & Noble. It's the unofficial magazine of Porsche in the U.S.
They've got an article in this month's edition about the Boxster GTS.