Scared new Boxster owner

[Lordblood]

Every engine has a chance of dying right? The truth is, people don't come online and tell everyone that their engine is living, they only report things if they go wrong. From the thousands of Boxsters around the country, only a few vehicles have faced engine failure.

Just get out there and enjoy, if you are feeling too paranoid then I perhaps it's best to go Japanese, perhaps an S2000?

[rick3000]

I think it was Jake Raby who mentioned that he had only seen one Spec Boxster have an engine failure, and all the other failures he has seen where cars that where driven lightly and/or stored a lot. The key thing here is that driving your car is good for it!

[stateofidleness]

Originally Posted by Lordblood

Every engine has a chance of dying right? The truth is, people don't come online and tell everyone that their engine is living, they only report things if they go wrong. From the thousands of Boxsters around the country, only a few vehicles have faced engine failure.

Just get out there and enjoy, if you are feeling too paranoid then I perhaps it's best to go Japanese, perhaps an S2000?

I was thinkin' more along the lines of Z06

[Nineteen89]

Important thing to remember is 12k is nothing compared to the original price the car was when new, just because the overall worth of the car has lowered 75% doesn't mean the cost of maintenance did so to, and with keeping that in mind I'm straying away from a possible Porshe purchase until I have the money to maintain it properly, I can't afford the gamble on a DD, which the box would have been for me... I need to think more realistically, right now I'm just a broke college kid with Porsche fantasies, I'll wait till after college.

[stephen wilson]

Driving hard didn't make the alternator or coolant tank fail, so have fun and drive it how you want to!