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Old 07-06-2016, 03:04 PM   #1
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It is a beautiful car, but low low mileage is not necessarily a good thing.

From what I have read, garage queens often have more problems with things like IMSB than cars that have been driven a bit.

How often was the oil changed?

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Agree here. You can state regular maintenance, but "regular porsche maintenance" means 15000 mile oil changes and if you went by the book none of your major services would've been completed yet. It's cause for concern until you clear up what you mean.
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Oil change every 3000 with synthetic and oil filter, original owner had air filters changed but other than that, that's the only service maintenance performed.
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Agree here. You can state regular maintenance, but "regular porsche maintenance" means 15000 mile oil changes and if you went by the book none of your major services would've been completed yet. It's cause for concern until you clear up what you mean.
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Old 07-06-2016, 09:35 PM   #3
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Oil change every 3000 with synthetic and oil filter, original owner had air filters changed but other than that, that's the only service maintenance performed.
so that equals 1 oil change about every 2 years. That's a long time for oil sitting, especially if it was not driven at least a little hard and enough to get the oil hot and burn off the crap in it. Sitting it can get acidic and that is not good.
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