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ppbon · 01-10-2008, 02:27 PM

I have a '98 daily driver (160K miles) and a '99 (75K miles) which is for sale.
When I purchased my '99 I wanted to build a spec racer. Aside from testing it and making sure that all was fine was that I did not want a very low mile car. My situation changed and the racecar never got built, and that's why it's for sale.
In '98 and '99 there were some issues with porous blocks and slipped ceramic cylinder sleeves.
Most of those failures occurred between 20K and 50K miles and generally when it happened to the 1st owner of the car, Porsche generally took care of the engine replacement even when the car was out of warranty. The same is not true for 2nd or 3rd owners.
So with a 25K mile car you won't be "out-of-the-woods" so to speak for a while. It's not a given that all '98s and '99 will fail, or even that a large percentage of them will fail, but my '98 did (at 23K - Porsche replaced the engine and it's been bullet proof since) and I know quite a few others that had engine failures as well.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you did ask for pros and cons.
Happy Boxstering,
Pedro.

01-10-2008, 02:27 PM	#3
ppbon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 529	I have a '98 daily driver (160K miles) and a '99 (75K miles) which is for sale. When I purchased my '99 I wanted to build a spec racer. Aside from testing it and making sure that all was fine was that I did not want a very low mile car. My situation changed and the racecar never got built, and that's why it's for sale. In '98 and '99 there were some issues with porous blocks and slipped ceramic cylinder sleeves. Most of those failures occurred between 20K and 50K miles and generally when it happened to the 1st owner of the car, Porsche generally took care of the engine replacement even when the car was out of warranty. The same is not true for 2nd or 3rd owners. So with a 25K mile car you won't be "out-of-the-woods" so to speak for a while. It's not a given that all '98s and '99 will fail, or even that a large percentage of them will fail, but my '98 did (at 23K - Porsche replaced the engine and it's been bullet proof since) and I know quite a few others that had engine failures as well. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you did ask for pros and cons. Happy Boxstering, Pedro. __________________ Racecar spelled backwards is: Racecar!