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YOUR RESEARCH996TT Owner Closing in on 400k miles
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Everything that has been replaced on the high mileage car is a ticking bomb on the garage queen, and sitting idle is harder on many components than driving.
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Mobil subjected a BMW e30 to 1 million miles using Mobil1 oil, granted it was on a roller but varied the rpm's and load to simulate real world.
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The multi-owner vehicles is probably due to the fact that this is treated as their fun toy and only get's driven on occasions when they aren't using their other 3-4 cars in their fleet.
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Everything that has been replaced on the high mileage car is a ticking bomb on the garage queen, and sitting idle is harder on many components than driving.
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The multi-owner vehicles is probably due to the fact that this is treated as their fun toy and only get's driven on occasions when they aren't using their other 3-4 cars in their fleet.
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Was trolling over on the 996 Turbo forums and looking at a high mileage thread. I see poster T2 currently has 393,000 miles on his 2003 Turbo and figures to surpass 400k in a few months. He has put all but a handful of those miles on himself. I love reading posts about guys driving and enjoying the crap out of their cars. In my very short (8 months) Corvette ownership I swear half those guys got wood if they could keep their mileage under 2,500 miles a year. Our 996's are not collector cars and likely won't be until long after I'm dead and buried. Mines a daily driver 8 months of the year and may see 10,000 miles annually. T2 is driving more than 3 times that amount. My hat off to you sir enjoy your Turbo in good heath.
There is nothing unique about that. Cars that get driven have high miles. Get on the highway in your 996 every weekend and put 500 miles on it on Saturday and Sunday for fun. I do it at least twice a month. Set the cruise at 100MPH and watch the miles fly.
Infrequently driven cars experience multiple problems that come from lack of use. A lot of Porsches suffer from this disease. All the sub 75k mile 996s should not exist at all. There are TWO ways that you can get low mileage on the OLD car. One- it sat all the time and was driven infrequently. Two- it was driven short distances. Both one and two are terrible for cars. A car with 300k miles that was driven exclusively on the highway with proper servicing will show almost NO wear outside of paint chips and paint damage. Engine is not stressed sitting at 2-3k RPM on the smooth road, same goes for clutch, rear diff, and transmission. Mercedes was able to show that highway driven V12 cars can get to 1,000,000 KM if serviced properly.
Average car in US gets driven 12-15k miles, with average car on the road being 10 years old. That means that your AVERAGE car has 120-150k miles. So if average car can get to 120k, the German $80k should have zero problem doing the same, otherwise someone is getting taken hard by the marketing team eh?
^^^ I'm glad more guys like you are starting to hang out around here.
They're just cars. Drive them.
Like I've said before: Not driving your car is like dating a supermodel and not banging her because you want her to be tighter for her next boyfriend.
Hold up, guys, don't get too carried away encouraging people to actually drive their cars. We always need a decent number of original owners to take the depreciation hit for us while keeping the miles low.
Mobil subjected a BMW e30 to 1 million miles using Mobil1 oil, granted it was on a roller but varied the rpm's and load to simulate real world. Engineers afterwards tore the motor down and found virtually no wear.
Does that make people feel better?
Here is his actual post. I was disappointed he opted to rebuild before it was needed so will will never know how long it could go.
https://rennlist.com/forums/11141541-post106.html
Anyways this a gt1 block race engine, with Nikasil cylinders and dry sump. Not at all like our mass produced inexpensive engines.
I rotate through several cars per year (I have a dealers license). My sweet spot is buying a well cared for high-end car at just over 100k miles. Some I sell after a couple of months and others after a couple of years. It is amazing what $12,000 (or often much less) will buy in that mileage range. I love people who think modern cars are shot at 100k miles. I never sweat putting miles on my cars as there is virtually no depreciation. As long as you are willing to wrench a little on the easy stuff and have a good indy mechanic who lets you source your own parts for the bigger ticket items rather than running to the dealer every time your car hiccups, maintenance is rarely a major problem. At that price point, you can afford to have 3 or 4 dream cars in the garage rather than have the same dollars tied up in one lower mileage car. Good to see a high performance car with a healthy heart after nearly 400k miles. At a certain point, the high mileage on a car becomes a badge of honor rather than a point of embarrassment.
Like I've said before: Not driving your car is like dating a supermodel and not banging her because you want her to be tighter for her next boyfriend.[/QUOTE]
That is EXACTLY the terminology I've been using to a couple friends of mine who don't drive there cars because they want to keep the mileage down. Like your girlfriend is getting better with age no she isn't, shes just getting OLDER. Ride her NOW.
5K mile oil/filter changes, among other things.
Same with my 2002 Boxster. 5K mile oil/filter changes. Odo rolling on past 278K miles. Not 400K miles yet but it will get there.
Nice! The beautiful thing about racking up that kind of mileage is you really aren't concerned with how much money $$$ you get for it because you've already wrung out 100% of it's value. Literally any amount IMO is a plus.
I'll take a well-kept higher mileage car over a low mileage garage queen any day. Everything that has been replaced on the high mileage car is a ticking bomb on the garage queen, and sitting idle is harder on many components than driving. Seals dry out, rubber rots, fluids go bad, etc. CARS WERE NOT MADE TO SIT.
The other fact that many don't want to admit - your 996 won't ever be a collectors item. Period. So keeping the mileage down is depriving you from enjoying a damn good car. So get out there and enjoy it!
- 2000 C2, 96k, year round daily driver with snow tires.
Ha I thought I was the only one in that game! I've owner several cars with 6 figure msrp stickers for fraction of the cost.
Latest addition is an 07 Audi S8. Sticker on that thing was ~118K, brought it home for 26 grand.
Congrats on a fantastic car. I had a 2002 S8 that is still one of my favorite cars, $96k MSRP and I paid a whopping $11k for it. I know a guy locally that has a 2007 S6, with a Milltek exhaust that V10 sounds simply incredible.
I think some owners thought initially it would be an investment in their collection and quite a few held out until they came to the realization that what they had were junk bonds. Now you see those people unloading their garage queens at a "loss".
The multi-owner vehicles is probably due to the fact that this is treated as their fun toy and only get's driven on occasions when they aren't using their other 3-4 cars in their fleet.
My $.02
My turbo has 122k miles, my last 996 Carrera had 180k+ and I’ve owned an e36 M3 to just past 220k miles (and it was being tracked 10-15x/year)... Cars can last when properly maintained.
