My car is turning out to be a disaster - need words of encouragement

[Toppy986]

as it seems you can do most of the work yourself I would keep it, the day I was driving home my 99 after I purchaded it the CEL came on. Started me looking for a vacume leak which turned into the evap purge valve sticking open, took me a while to pin it down, but I loved the challange. look at replacing somthing ever year, beyond the yearly maintance, first year for me was plugs and aos, last year was going to be w/p and front mount, but i fell into a 03 top instead, so this year i did the pump, mount, idler bearings, and coolant. next year i am thinking clutch, rear seal, and ims bearing, i guess my point is yes these cars take money to keep them running as they should, do I trust it, absolutely, in fact this years trip is to the Tail of the dragon in September. if it were me and you are dumping the coolant anyway for the tank, I would do the W/P, t-stat, and front mount at the same time. they say you can spot a boxster driver by his perma grin, its true

[michael_J_brown]

It's not really about the money as much as about not having it break down all the time. Such a great car to drive obviously it's no fun if it's in the shop.

I'll stick with the car see if I can get these issues resolved