Introduction

Hello all, I've finally made the leap. I purchased my 2002 C4 last week. It's a cabriolet, slate grey metallic. I bought it from the original owner down in San Diego, and other than the whole time going by very fast, the experience was a pleasure. The seller and his wife were very gracious, answered all our questions, had no hesitation about the PPI. My wife accompanied me on the trip from Denver to San Diego, and helped with the needed perspective at times, as we were looking at another car as well. The drive back to Denver across the desert was uneventful, except for the check engine - drive to workshop indicator that came on in Utah. I've arranged for a local Porsche shop to do the necessary fixes to the car next week. I have to keep looking down at the Porsche badge on the steering wheel to remind me that I actually own a Porsche 911 now. What a trip! John

Welcome John - Your car looks great and slate grey is a beautiful color. Did you figure out why the check engine light was on? I don't know how mechanically able you are but these are relatively easy cars to work with. If you're confident enough to fix things yourself then one trip to the dealer is probably going to be as much as a Durametric tool (available from our host). That is the single most valuable piece of maintenance equipment I own for my car and it's paid for itself many times over. That and a 76mm - 14 flute oil filter wrench ;-) Enjoy your car and drive it.

Welcome aboard. These cars are one of the best bang for the buck sports cars that you can buy and yours is a beautiful example. Help add to the collective data base, let us know what the symptoms for the CEL were and what the fix was.