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Old 05-02-2016, 11:15 AM   #5
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If you literally look in the General Discussion Forum there's a thread on the larger bearing. And you're better off calling it the 06 and up bearing because a lot of 05s still had the old single row.

Welcome to the forum. Use the search function to help topics stay relevant. If you had used the search you'd have gotten a ppi, because you'd know how valuable those are when buying a p car. You'd also see that for the 01-05 smaller single row the number is 8 percent and the 97-00 dual row was about 1 percent. Less failures with the large non serviceable but I'll let you read the other thread.
Thanks for the feedback. I know about PPI's and wouldd have got one on any other Boxster. But when I set out to look for a car I was planning on either a nice Z4 M Roadster ($20-25K) or the best late 03+ glass window 986S I could find for around $20K which should have been a mint one. But then this car came up through a friend of a friend for cheap, like seriously cheap as in cheaper than any other running Boxster I've heard about and less than many cars needing a new engine. So as it's got less than 20K miles on a new Porsche engine I've taken a chance. I mean, what's the worse thing that could happen!

I already needed to be rescued once with jumper cables by, ironically, the most unreliable car in the world, a Land Rover Discovery! Looking for the radio code (not found the card yet) before getting a new battery.

I'll post an intro and running thread once I've got it titled and insured tomorrow.

Last edited by Adrian Thompson; 05-02-2016 at 12:41 PM. Reason: Typos
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