New 2000 Boxster Owner

[recycledsixtie]

Originally Posted by jhiggi83

A couple days ago I bought my first Porsche a 2000 Boxster Base with tiptronic transmission. I have always been a Camaro/Mustang person. I am the third owner and it has 88k miles on it. I bought it with the intent on doing all the service myself with the help of a manual. The previous owner to excellent mechanical care of it racking up close to 7k in repairs in his 3 years of ownership including a transmission rebuild. There are quite a few cosmetic issues that I will be addressing. I have rips in the leather, worn steering wheel, Yellow headlights with baked on protective film that has probably been on for 14 years, and spider cracking on front bumper cover. For the seats im going to seal the rips with gorilla clear repair tape and place Coverking Moda Letherex Seat covers on them. I spent 3 hours yesterday scraping the protective film off the headlights and I will be restoring them with the mothers kit tomorrow along with Claying, Polishing and waxing the paint. I think it has the potential to look great after I put some TLC into it.

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[jhiggi83]

I think my only real challenge is going to be stripping that bumper and repainting it which is something Ive never done before but I cant see paying 750+ for something I could do for $150 in supplies. After going thru the previous owners service recipts I know I will be doing all the Maintenance myself. $300 for an oil change, $700 for spark plugs, $4,000+ to rebuild the tranny. No thanks, I did most of that stuff as a kid when my dad forced me to help him.

[clickman]

Originally Posted by jhiggi83

$700 for spark plugs.

That's gotta be a typo...

[jhiggi83]

Originally Posted by clickman

That's gotta be a typo...

I looked again and it was $500 but they charged almost 4 hours labor to do it at $108 an hour. Ive Never done spark plugs on a Porsche but I don't think it should take much longer than an hour.

[clickman]

Originally Posted by jhiggi83

Ive Never done spark plugs on a Porsche but I don't think it should take much longer than an hour.

You are correct. I'd stay far away from that shop.