I find general maintenance quite reasonable. A good friend of mine has a Toyota Camry and his service costs are actually more than mine as the Porsche doesn't require the same intervals. As with anything if you want the best it's goin to cost you more. I was actually surprised at the prices of some parts.
I recently did my own 80,000Km service which included Air Filter, Oil Filter, Bolyrib Belt, 5 x Spark Plugs, Fuel Filter & Cabin Filter & the parts cost me about $350. Plus the 10 Litres of Mobil 1 which was $130. Sure I did my own labour and saved over $1K but it was all pretty easy.
These are Australian dollars & I know you guys in the states get stuff a lot cheaper than we do even taking into account the exchange rate. I saw a 98 Boxster with abot 50K advertised for US$15K. Makes you wish you were a yank lol.
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