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Originally Posted by flops
Bought a 2006 boxster yesterday and have questions which may have been answered before!
Do you use super unleaded or is the car happy with unleaded. I did read in the manual that the management system adjustes for unleaded but what are your views?
Checked the car and it has had two services but they are not porsche. It has 27k miles . Service at 13k and one by the dealer who sold it to me/new pads etc. Would you drive it for a few months and then get it serviced in a porsche dealership after doing maybe 7k miles? Should i save up and do check/service as soon as possible in main dealer? think i may have boobed in this area. Not as if not knowlegable as 17th car but never a porsche. Was treating myself after divorce!!
Rear tyres needed soon! Quoated £280 for pirellis. Fair price?
Going to use it every day as sold golf and went for something totally out of character. Any advice?
Anyone from N Ireland on the site?
Thanks for anticipated replies!
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Can't say on the price of tires as most of us are in the US, but assuming they're 18s and doubling the priceas a rough exchange rate, that sounds more or less comparable.
I would run the car on the highest octane commonly available in your area. Should be 98 RON, though I have seen 99 and 100 RON in other parts of Europe? I'd run the 100 if I could get it. Our owner's manuals recommend 93 (R+M)/2 which corresponds roughly to 97-98 RON. I have run the car on 91 (R +M)/2 in Canada as it was all I could get; it ran fine, albeit with what I thought was slightly reduced performance. Yours is a relatively small motor with a rather high specific output - it needs to work hard to make that power so use the best gas you can get.
I would at least get the oil changed ASAP since you don't know when it happened (or was it 14,000 miles ago? - that is a pretty long interval and I think most if not all here would tell you a little too long) I would be comfortable with about a 7500 mile interval on that car, assuming it isn't taking you forever to accumulate that.
Sounds like the car has no factory or aftermarket warranty left; a pre-purchase inspection with Porsche or a trusted independent garage would have been a good idea; still it makes sense now to take it in to Porsche and see what's going on, though really, on a relatively young 987 where the miles are neither too high nor too low, there shouldn't be much going on other than what you mentioned - the need for new brakes and tires. Good luck with it and put up a picture.