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Originally Posted by Giller
The mechanic is selling it? The owner of the shop - who is also a Porsche mechanic is selling it, though his employee did most of the service. Kind of confusing.
Why does it have a brand new bearing? Did he find metal? That metal could be all through it. No metal was found when servicing the engine - the car needed a new clutch and assorted labor intensive work (free for the onwer) so the owner of the car sold it to the shop and bought a 987, IMS bearing was replaced during clutch install as a preventative measure/increase selling value to people like me who have been sufficiently scared by the IMS thing.. Car previously had an IMS bearing replaced ~40k miles.
I would strongly suggest before buying any older car - get an independent opinion. A PPI is especially important when it comes to these cars. They can be very costly to maintain if you aren't wrenching it yourself. Unfortunately the only other certified mechanic of any reputation I know of in SD is on vacation for 3 weeks. The mechanic, to his credit never pushed the car and we talked about it in length - my family has a pretty close relationship to the shop. So there's some trust here.
I had a base 02 and never felt it lacked power and have heard many say the same about the 2.5L Thanks! I didn't push the car particularly hard during the test as I was getting used to the clutch - so I didn't get to feel it out as much as the 2.7L
There's really no right or wrong answer when you are buying a 15+ year old car. You can do all the spreadsheets and analysis you want - there will still be a huge amount of luck involved. ABSOLUTELY. Statistics will never ensure a result. The 5k Porsche without the IMS bearing replacement/old tip-trans could last forever - that's why my graph (which you can't see reasonably) is only about price.. but I appreciate your point of view - because it's definitely right!
Good luck! Thanks! I'll need it  |
What do you think about milage? Though I've heard so many arguments for/against low/high mileage I'm about to just give up on the subject all together!