Oh noes! NOTHING is wrong with my car!!

I have to admit, I had heart failure yesterday. I pulled the Box out of the garage and what was on the floor.... a spot of OIL.


Oh, Sh-- *PANIC* RMS Failure!

Took the car to the garage and put it on the lift....

*whew*

The oil was coming from the pan gasket, no where near the RMS. One of the bolts on the oil pan was a bit loose. Tightened her up, and brake-kleened the pan, and I'll check her out again in a week or so to see if that fixed it. [/panic]

[Perfectlap]

other than my throttle body failure of last week This car has gone close to 30,000 miles without a single problem. Mechanical or electrical.
People say Porsche never report problems because the owners never put enough miles on them but based on my experience I have to say its been no different than when I owned my Honda or Mazda.
....well except for the oil change that costs 4X's more.

[Wintermute]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

....well except for the oil change that costs 4X's more.

Humph. Oil change in my Prelude was about $70 at JiffyLube. And that was every 7500 miles with Mobil 1. I won't ever let anyone do an oil change on any car I own again, except me. I consider it "bonding time" and I can do a better job anyway.

So for about the same price I can do it myself, and only every 15k miles. So for me, it's about the same really.

[blinkwatt]

Originally Posted by Wintermute

Humph. Oil change in my Prelude was about $70 at JiffyLube. And that was every 7500 miles with Mobil 1. I won't ever let anyone do an oil change on any car I own again, except me. I consider it "bonding time" and I can do a better job anyway.

Speaking of "bonding". When I first picked up my Boxster,I changed the oil and figured it would be "bonding time" as well. Well I didnt expect the drain plug to shoot off at about half of the way loose and hot oil shot out,it got into a cut I had on my hand,man that hurt. Oh well,no pain no gain.

[Wintermute]

Originally Posted by blinkwatt

Speaking of "bonding". When I first picked up my Boxster,I changed the oil and figured it would be "bonding time" as well. Well I didnt expect the drain plug to shoot off at about half of the way loose and hot oil shot out,it got into a cut I had on my hand,man that hurt. Oh well,no pain no gain.

Haha, almost exact same thing happened to me the first time I changed the oil in my Prelude. Damn near lost half the oil on the driveway (and the plug) when it shot out and overshot my oil pan by about a foot.

That was fun cleaning up dirty oil from my dad's garage floor.

[der Geist]

I guess I have the same problem. I have been driving my 03 Boxster verrrry happily for about 4,000 miles now in the short time I have had it. This car is absolutely the best vehicle that I have ever owned. Have not had 1 drop of oil on the garage floor and I just did my first oil and air filter change since aquiring it last week.

Now if only I could avoid the drama of finding dependable suppliers for all the extras this baby needs.....The past two weeks was spent trying to find someone who could actually ship me a Motive bleeder and didn't want to charge $60.00 plus $15.00 in shipping charges. Thank goodness for apexperformance. Got a kick out of the guy that wanted to charge me $21.00 to ship 4 oil and one air filter (actual shipping cost is about $6.00 via priority mail). I used to own a 914 and I said it then and I say it now. Anyone can buy a Porsche. But mainting it-well that's a whole other story!

I think my biggest gripe with the car is that every kid with a Honda, Subaru and Eclipse wants to race me. Is it just me or do these cars with megaphone exhausts sound like the car is farting?

OI!!

That is why they are called fart-can exhausts. For me, I have all the rednecks in their Ford F-350's racing me. I just laugh when I think of the gallons of fuel they are spewing out their tail pipes to prove their manliness.

[BoxsterRS]

My car has 50,000 miles without an rms failure or anything related to the engine, only some minor top problems, but that is it, It's a 98 Box. Ohh forgot, I'm in the process of replacing the engine mounts which had a defect but nothing out of the ordinary. Runs perfect and smoke only comes out when its been sitting for two days or more. I'm freaked out about the RMS hope it doesn't fail on me(I'll have to pray a lot and throw a lot of pennys at anything with water to get the penny gods to hear me!!!)

[FinBoxster]

Hey. And greetings from Finland. I don't know if this would've been worth of it's own thread so I just put it here, hoping no-one gets hard feelings on it...

I came to your forums to seek for information about boxsters. I've been wanting to get one for a few years but never had the chance. Now, I'm selling my A4 Avant because I don't need the extra space on it anymore. The thing is, as I'm going a bit nervous reading these threads full of problems and what is more scary about it, expensive ones.

I'm only going to be able to get the entry level, early year and propably ~100 000 km = ~60k miles or so boxster. Based on anyones experiences, is it "wise" to get one that old or just let it be and think about something else? I really like the look on boxsters, but I haven't even been able to drive one yet. So I don't even know if it has enough room for me as I'm 189cm tall. Dunno how it's converted to feet and such, but lets just say I'm taller than average, at least around here.

I have had 290 whp in my turbocharged V6 Mazda mx-6 (and having more in time as I get it sorted again), so I don't expect it to be stunningly fast.

I gotta get back studying the boxsters secrets, but just wanted to hear some opinions about owning one of the older boxsters, whether it's asking for some problems or not.

Sorry if these are questions that you've answered million times before.

Mici

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by FinBoxster

Hey. And greetings from Finland. I don't know if this would've been worth of it's own thread so I just put it here, hoping no-one gets hard feelings on it...

I came to your forums to seek for information about boxsters. I've been wanting to get one for a few years but never had the chance. Now, I'm selling my A4 Avant because I don't need the extra space on it anymore. The thing is, as I'm going a bit nervous reading these threads full of problems and what is more scary about it, expensive ones.

I'm only going to be able to get the entry level, early year and propably ~100 000 km = ~60k miles or so boxster. Based on anyones experiences, is it "wise" to get one that old or just let it be and think about something else? I really like the look on boxsters, but I haven't even been able to drive one yet. So I don't even know if it has enough room for me as I'm 189cm tall. Dunno how it's converted to feet and such, but lets just say I'm taller than average, at least around here.

I have had 290 whp in my turbocharged V6 Mazda mx-6 (and having more in time as I get it sorted again), so I don't expect it to be stunningly fast.

I gotta get back studying the boxsters secrets, but just wanted to hear some opinions about owning one of the older boxsters, whether it's asking for some problems or not.

Sorry if these are questions that you've answered million times before.

Mici

Suggest you drive one several times. Drive both the S and regular models.

Then come back here with questions and we will be happy to help!!!!!

Good luck.