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YOUR RESEARCHHow many miles on your '99-01 996?
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replacement of the rms (once)
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Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging.
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Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging.
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Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging.
Replace headlights, fenders and front and rear bumper
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funny the first thing I did was changing the headlights, fenders and front and rear bumper!
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Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging.
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Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging.
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'99 with 94,000 miles - original engine, replaced transmission due to failure of limited slip clutches under warranty at 92,000, otherwise no major problem.
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... i'm just trying to gauge what owners are getting out the older models...
996's are priced well right now... and there is an additional price break for a '99 - '00... ppl tell me to go with the MKII... but i thought i'd do the research and see what people are getting out of the earlier 996 models...
thanx!
aK
'99 with 94,000 miles - original engine, replaced transmission due to failure of limited slip clutches under warranty at 92,000, otherwise no major problem. Feels very strong. Still looks new even though it spends most of its time outside..
thanks for the replies!!! can also ask if anybody has had to make the decision of '99-01 vs. '02+... the typical response has been to get an '02+ for the 3.6L and updates, but i wanted to get more opinions... thanx!!!
1999 - 996 Cab --Artic Silver -- just turned 68,000 miles. Last time at mechanic for some small stuff --- all you need is gas and a open road.
Chuck 951
A 2001 over a 2002 became an easy decision for me with my preferred car color and options came with only 10,500 miles and a full 2 year CPO warranty. That makes headlight, bumpers, 3.4 engines, gloveboxes, and interior trim pieces secondary.
I bought my '99 Cab with 103k miles, but bad motor. I drove it home, but that's it. A replacement motor will be ordered in the very near future.... I've been busy fixing other odds and ends (brakes, suspension, top, etc).
01 C2 Cab* 55K runs strong and on original engine and trans. Just out run a new BMW 335I stock the other day. We rolled off in 2nd gear around 4K rpm's, Jumped on him a little. When we went to 3rd I started to pull on him. Anyway, still runs very strong with 55K on it.
99000 miles on my 99 C2. Other than regular maintenance, plastic coolant tank needed to be replaced due to crack and alternator electrical connections needed to be cleaned for proper charging. I will be replacing dampers with Motons soon. Lastly, I like the front lights as per 911 GT1!
funny the first thing I did was changing the headlights, fenders and front and rear bumper! It is good that there is so much variety in styles and likes....makes this forum so much more colorful.
a lot of cars out there with low miles... overall i think the RMS/ Int Shaft problems are a bit overstated... perhaps the exception vs. the norm? also, the "problem" hasn't gone away with the MKII or the 997 even. i looked at a 2005 C2 last week that had the int shaft replaced at 25K miles...
hmmm... still haven't seen too many 996s over 100K miles though.... ????
Yes, some of the guys here have low mileage examples.
Normal usage for a Pcar is considered to be 7k-9k miles per year, so even the 99 models should on average have only 60k-80k miles.
I have seen several daily driver early Boxsters
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over 100k miles.
Plenty on this board have made the 100k mark with the 3.4L, I was one of them.
3 years ago when I was first looking for a 996, I saw a '99 cab for sale with 168,000 miles asking $40,000 on Autotrader.
200k miles with proper maintenance I believe, is very well acheivable.
i too am of fan of the mk1 lights. i like them better than the mk2 lights on my c4s not that i'd want to swap them over since the body design changed quite a bit as well.
Bought my MY02 C4S with 33,000Km in May 2006,
and 2nd RMS was done at purchase by PO.
It now has 62,000Km, and it feels faster *smiles*,
and sounds better with MII exhaust mod done by Porsche.
John
Bought my 2000 C2 in July of 06 at 40,000 miles and use it as my daily driver (lucky me
). It has 65,000 miles on it now, including about 10 track days. It runs absolutely perfectly and is as dry as a bone.
thanks for the link... this is all great info... im in the paralysis by analysis stage now... so much info that it's made the decision process harder than ever.........
Father has a '99 C4 with (I think) 6-7K......and I have been the one to put the majority of the miles on it! Poor thing makes me sad everytime I see it.
