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Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310
A PPI is only as good as the mechanic doing it
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Very true but the PPI is hardly a good indicator of what you would most likely face.
as Don Rumsfeld said:
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; what we don't have answers for.
But there are also unknown unknowns - things we don't have questions or answers for yet.
I would budget a lot more than the standard $2K a year for a 2.5 or high mileage car. If the car was driven in or will be driven in cold weather than I'd say $3,500 a year wouldn't be out of the question. Virtually all of the Porsches I've heard of having low history of needed repairs were cars from Southern California or one of those that was repatriated to a cold weather state as garage queen -- a car not purchased for daily, year round driving. Winters and rough roads are very harsh on finely-tuned sports cars.
There really is no such thing as a $10K Porsche no matter the year or mileage. You could easily have two or three simultaneous repairs that account for 20% of the purchase price. Cost of repairs do not scale down with the lower price of entry.
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