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R&T 996 Article - Case for the Porsche 996

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Which shops are routinely dropping the engine to inspect the bearing for the average $400 PPI?
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Never happened to me, anyone else?), then goes on about how 996's are no longer built by hand (when I toured the plant in 2003, there were an awful lot of people pushing the 996's from station to station with an elevator involved from the first to the second floor for every car and bolting parts onto the car- certainly less pure assembly line than the VW, Audi, and Mercedes factories I toured the same week.) Then he states that most any good shop can do a PPI and identify if the bearing has been replaced or needs changing - Really?
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The guy wrote an article purporting to explain why the 996 is a great buy - and it is, we know that, however his article certainly could use some corrections.
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Which shops are routinely dropping the engine to inspect the bearing for the average $400 PPI?
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Never happened to me, anyone else?), then goes on about how 996's are no longer built by hand (when I toured the plant in 2003, there were an awful lot of people pushing the 996's from station to station with an elevator involved from the first to the second floor for every car and bolting parts onto the car- certainly less pure assembly line than the VW, Audi, and Mercedes factories I toured the same week.) Then he states that most any good shop can do a PPI and identify if the bearing has been replaced or needs changing - Really?
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The guy wrote an article purporting to explain why the 996 is a great buy - and it is, we know that, however his article certainly could use some corrections.
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http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...a-porsche-996/

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Good read! Doubt it will be enough to combat the internet-driven paranoia. Nonetheless, savvy buyers will end up being the winners

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Interesting, maybe I'm a glass half-empty kind of guy - when I read this last night I thought it was more negative or at best damning the car with faint praise. The "author" first quotes a guy who talks about how the interior sucks so bad that buttons fall off the 996's dash (really? Never happened to me, anyone else?), then goes on about how 996's are no longer built by hand (when I toured the plant in 2003, there were an awful lot of people pushing the 996's from station to station with an elevator involved from the first to the second floor for every car and bolting parts onto the car- certainly less pure assembly line than the VW, Audi, and Mercedes factories I toured the same week.) Then he states that most any good shop can do a PPI and identify if the bearing has been replaced or needs changing - Really? Which shops are routinely dropping the engine to inspect the bearing for the average $400 PPI? None that I've seen. The guy wrote an article purporting to explain why the 996 is a great buy - and it is, we know that, however his article certainly could use some corrections. I'll bet some of the "real" writers at the old Road and Track are saying WTF is up with this dude...

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^+1 Agree 996 is a great sports car though.

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