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Use porsche you can buy imho
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Post 95 Porsche 993 C2 manual is *probably* the most reliable used Porsche you can buy IMHO.
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Agree ref your 964 costs but a 993 is still cheaper as it takes more labour to take off the rocker covers & adjust the tappets on a 964, so bare min a couple of hours which at labour rates near £50 per hr for a specialist all adds up.
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Agree ref your 964 costs but a 993 is still cheaper as it takes more labour to take off the rocker covers & adjust the tappets on a 964, so bare min a couple of hours which at labour rates near £50 per hr for a specialist all adds up.
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Replace from a grand
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Rarely got change from a grand for my 964 C4 doing 10,000m p.a.
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Just have to say, when i came back from the Cannonball Run i decided to do a 24k service myelf.
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Agree ref your 964 costs but a 993 is still cheaper as it takes more labour to take off the rocker covers & adjust the tappets on a 964, so bare min a couple of hours which at labour rates near £50 per hr for a specialist all adds up.
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budget 150-300 for interim
350-550 for major
Service intervals are every 12k miles - that cuts those figures in half instantly compared to the TiV.
Post 95 Porsche 993 C2 manual is *probably* the most reliable used Porsche you can buy IMHO.
Plenty of breakers and factor parts, so some bits are cheap too.
Just have to say, when i came back from the Cannonball Run i decided to do a 24k service myelf.
Bought the 24k service kit from my OPC for 75+VAT (not a misprint, seventy five quid) and 12 litres of Mobil 1 from Halfrauds for 103 quid.
Admittedly i gave up when i got to the 6 top plugs and went to my friendly local specialist, they did the 6 top plugs for 100 quid.
The 24k service kit includes:
2 oil filters
2 pollen filters
lots of sump plug washers and o-rings and things
12 spark plugs
1 air filter
The oil and filters is really quite easy, you can get instructions on all of this from
www.p-car.com
Hope this helps.
P
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I'd double that, Dom, for 'unforeseen eventualities...'
Rarely got change from a grand for my 964 C4 doing 10,000m p.a. + track days and I can't believe hydraulic tappets are going to make that much difference!!
Then stick another grand on per year for improvements and 'very unforeseen eventualities'.
Agree ref your 964 costs but a 993 is still cheaper as it takes more labour to take off the rocker covers & adjust the tappets on a 964, so bare min a couple of hours which at labour rates near £50 per hr for a specialist all adds up.
I worked out some approx minimum service costs for 993 at a well known specialist around a year ago and have them vs what the local OPC charged at the time-
Specialist OPC
12k £190 £421
24k £500 £663
48k £550 £752
Thanks for the advice. I take it, its 12 k or a yearly service? The TVR is 6k or yearly, but since I only do about 6k per year, even if its 12k for a 993, I the service interval will be same, as I will have to service it each year.
Anyway, still much cheaper to do than a Cerbera, which is the future TVR option.
Thanks
Dave
Whats the service intervals for a 993 and how much does it cost. May swap TVR, which just got serviced for £470 (every 6k miles).
Any info would be useful....
Dave
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