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If you and a friend did the "30k service" in 2 hours (with no previous experience), then you DID NOT do what the dealer charges the thousand bucks for.
I am not disputing that you changed the oil, plugs, and filters, all at a considerable savings over dealer fees, but I wager you did none of the laundry list of things performed by the dealer at the major maintenance interval.
The maintenance manual for the '99 Boxster lists 24 separate checks and inspections to be performed in addition to the replacing the oil, plugs and filters.
All this takes a trained Porsche mechanic about 5 hours to complete.
What you did was only a part of the specified maintenance.
This serves to emphasize the difference between owner maintenance and authorized dealer, or at least Porsche specialist shop, maintenance.
Somewhere down the road you are going to want to sell your Boxster, and if a prospective purchaser is at all savvy, they are going to want to see the maintenance records. A hand full of sales slips for oil, filters and plugs is a poor substitute for certified maintenance records.
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