Maintenance For Boxter 2002

[mikefocke]

Assuming you don't know the maintenance history of the car, I'd take it to an experienced Porsche water cooled engine mechanic and have him do the equivalent of a PPI. Hook it up to a diagnostic machine and see what gets reported. Have him look at the suspension and brakes. Drive it. Then consider the most comprehensive service recommendation from Porsche which in my case was a 90k service (which I did just to get the car to where I knew what had been done). It included all fluids and a belt. I think I did plugs and coils too. Not cheap but worth it. Alignment. After that, I pretty much maintained it.

[BoxMann]

Originally Posted by mikefocke

Assuming you don't know the maintenance history of the car, I'd take it to an experienced Porsche water cooled engine mechanic and have him do the equivalent of a PPI. Hook it up to a diagnostic machine and see what gets reported. Have him look at the suspension and brakes. Drive it. Then consider the most comprehensive service recommendation from Porsche which in my case was a 90k service (which I did just to get the car to where I knew what had been done). It included all fluids and a belt. I think I did plugs and coils too. Not cheap but worth it. Alignment. After that, I pretty much maintained it.

That gets the car all caught up on the maintenance schedule, but what about the issue of the car possibly not getting proper maintenance for 100k miles?