Buying a boxster - Walk me through the PPI process

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I like the concept of trusting others.

I bought my second Boxster with a blown engine. The owner repeatedly promised that the the engine was the only problem with the car. Nothing else was wrong. No check engine lights before the engine stopped running. He seemed like a good person. He belonged to the PCA. He sounded like a real enthusiast. My kind of owner.

So I trusted him, bought the car, and swapped the engine.

Then I spent another $2,000 repairing all of the problems that were hidden by the non-running engine that the owner promised didn't exist. Problems that had to exist before the engine failed because they weren't part of the engine. He literally lied straight to my face.

Is every seller like this? I don't think so. Sellers like this might be 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1,000. But it can happen.