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Originally Posted by specivic
what would cause the cats to go so prematurely? As mentioned in my prev posts, I am a honda guy who is switching to porsche...Cat's in Hondas seem to last forever unless the car is consistently run w/ less than a 1/4 of a tank of gas in it.
And what is the name of the scan which reads how the car was driven (aka how many times it has been red lined)?
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Hi,
Why do you think the cats are going? The owner may be pulling a code which refers to the cats, but other things like OČ Sensors, MAF and such can mask as Cat problems and throw the same codes. Is there a CEL on? Cats can fail prematurely from a number of issues such as running Gas additives, wrong plugs, but the greatest cause would be overfilling the Oil consistently and this may have been the case especially if the owner was trying to compensate for a leak. The Boxsters Cats are no more prone to failure than any other car, so this causes some suspicion on my part.
As mentioned, get a PPI done and if possible have it hooked up to a PST2 (Porsche diagnostic tool/computer) this will give a better picture of what's happening.
The one thing the World is not short of is Used Boxsters. There's real truth to the addage "
the most expensive Porsche to own is usually the one which was cheapest to buy". Unless you have a lot of time, knowledge and $$, the are no bargains in Porsche Fixer-uppers. Don't fixate on this one necessarily, look at several - a choice of one is no choice. The more Homework/Legwork you do up front will yield the greatest reward later...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99