Should I get a Boxster ? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

IwAnTaBoxster · 05-09-2005, 04:04 PM

Thanks for all the info, it's a great read. I will definetely be checking out the history on the car before I buy one. The car I have now was rebuilt and i didnt find out until my loan had already gone through so I owned the car already , so I wont be making that mistake again.

Brucelee · 05-09-2005, 05:24 PM

Let me see what we can do with these suggestions above, which are great!

PSP · 05-11-2005, 05:10 PM

....and make sure your Boxster comes with more than one ignition key. The keys are a dealer-only item and cost well over $100 each.

RandallNeighbour · 05-12-2005, 07:23 AM

PSP - You ain't lyin' about that key thing! I'd walk away from a bargaining table if the salesman did not guarantee he would provide two fully functioning keys with remote key heads. That'll save you not $100, but nearly $280.00 and an hour at the dealership during a normally busy mid-week work day!

And while we're on the subject of keys, DO NOT buy any keys off Ebay that say they will work for your car and can be reprogrammed. This is sheer crap from an uneducated person! If the remote key head does not have the hanging tag on it with the part number that you are certain goes to your car, and contains the bardcoded set of numbers used to program the transponder to your particular car, it's worthless!

jast513 · 08-22-2005, 11:30 AM

I think this would be a great idea to have everything in one section. All of the n00bs (including me) could get a lot of information from that section. But what if a newbie has a question or a comment that just wasn't covered the way he/she wanted to ask it or it is similiar but just doesn't get answered for the newbie. So he jumps on the forum to ask a question and the first reply is "Look this up in this section this has been asked before." I know this isn't going to be said all the time. But from a newbie's standpoint, we just want to get out here and interact with all of the members that have Boxster's. And what better place to come to a site that everyone on the site is passionate about what that newbie wants. You know thinking about it, putting myself in your position (the position of already having a boxster which I don't) maybe I wouldn't want to say the same thing over and over again for each newbie who joins. But I think if you are passionate about it(and I know you all are) I would really think I would reply to each newbie who joins. Just to interact with people who have the same passion that I do!!! Porsche Boxsters!!!! :dance: (just my 2 cents, correct me if I am wrong

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So just to let you know I am a n00b that joined about 4 days ago and so far I love this forum. Everyone here is very nice, and has a lot of experience with the Boxster. I do appreciate this site and all of the information. I will probably be lurking on this site for a year and a half before I get a Boxster. That is when my wife will be graduated from College. She doen't have a job right now so it is just my income paying the bills. So I hope you guys don't mind me lurking out here.

I have one last thing, is there a place where all of the porsche boxster owners meet once a month or something like that to show of there cars? I live in Gilbert AZ and I love going to see cars especially Porsche's but I don't know of any place that you guys get together just to shoot the breeze.... I go to the Scottsdale Pavillions every other Saturday or so just to check out the passion people have for there cars.

Well Thanks for reading and I hope I am not off base with any of this. I look forward to hopefully meeting you guys and one day seeing your beautiful Boxsters one day.

Brucelee · 08-22-2005, 11:57 AM

If you have a local chapter of the PCA, they will certainly have tons of get togethers for like minded car owners.

"I have one last thing, is there a place where all of the porsche boxster owners meet once a month or something like that to show of there cars? I live in Gilbert AZ and I love going to see cars especially Porsche's but I don't know of any place that you guys get together just to shoot the breeze.... I go to the Scottsdale Pavillions every other Saturday or so just to check out the passion people have for there cars."