Advice on first Porsche: High or Low miles?

[jmitro]

Originally Posted by thstone

but you're almost guaranteed to have $12K+ in it by the time you list it for $8,500.

or, like me, $20K
but it looks great, sounds great, drives great, and when I track, I know all the problem areas have been addressed

[MidEnginelover]

Originally Posted by jmitro

or, like me, $20K
but it looks great, sounds great, drives great, and when I track, I know all the problem areas have been addressed

Damn yall spending $12K to $20K on a 986 maintenance?!?!?!?

You got me shook, what could be broken that requires so much money? Did yall take it to the dealer?

I thought I could buy a 986 for $10K and loose $2K at most on sale, S2000 or AW11 looking good right about now.

[maytag]

Originally Posted by MidEnginelover

Damn yall spending $12K to $20K on a 986 maintenance?!?!?!?

You got me shook, what could be broken that requires so much money? Did yall take it to the dealer?

I thought I could buy a 986 for $10K and loose $2K at most on sale, S2000 or AW11 looking good right about now.

well, I suspect fro most people who've done that, it's 'cuz they caught the DISEASE..... haha.

Any 20 year old car, if you get caught-up in making things like-new, can cost you well north of those numbers. But you don't need it to be new.

I think if you took a poll here, you'd find that the maintenance costs range between about $200 and $1000 year. Someone got mad at me for saying so, recently, haha, so I'll include some outliers that say possibly as much as $2000/yr. but that's very rare.

When you egt to spending money is when you get to modifying, or going into "restoration" as opposed to maintenance. OR - Track Breakage, as is the case for me, haha.

[jmitro]

Originally Posted by maytag

well, I suspect fro most people who've done that, it's 'cuz they caught the DISEASE..... haha.

Any 20 year old car, if you get caught-up in making things like-new, can cost you well north of those numbers. But you don't need it to be new.

that describes me