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Hi everyone
I am leaning towards a 99 cab and all is ok with carfax but I am trying to get service records. Porsche of Roslyn is balking at helping me out. How do others get service records before buying? This is becoming very frustrating.
Thanks
Ryan
You might want to read the lengthy "Two Blown Engines" post next to your inquiry. This guy has had some real issues. I own a 01 996 with 57,000 miles and I am looking at an engine replacement possibility myself. I bought two years ago with 42,000 miles and the car has been great. I knew the owner well. I now have 35 track days on the car in addition to the street mileage so maybe that has contributed somewhat to an engine rebuild...who knows.
Is that really true? I have been told another dealer can only bring up warranty item records but only the dealer that has done maintenance/out of warranty work can provide those.
Of course, I could be wrong
Yes I did read that lengthy note on blown engine. It is scaring the S*** out of me. I have an 88 3.2 coup and have owned an 02 coup, 03 TT, 04 Coup and a 987S and have never experianced any issues. The 88 is bullit proof. Why are these early 996 motors blowing left and right?
It depends on your relationship with the dealer perhaps. When I was looking for my 993 a few years ago I worked with the local dealer to allocate records prior to purchase. When I had the PPI on the 996 I went to the same dealer and asked for any and all records they could find and they printed them right up. I was nice to them if that makes any difference
I belive this is true, at least that's what I've been told in the past.
EDIT: My post may have been ambiguous; I'm agreeing with Marc that dealers can't see other dealer's service records.
Dealers cannot bring up other dealers service history the only info they can access is warranty work. You need to find the original owner or where the car was serviced.
The car has been local (NYC) since new. Im affraid to say that I bet it was serviced at Manhattan Motor Cars. If thats the case Im sure ill never see the records.
I've been parking my 996's in parking lots since 2001 when I had my C4. I've only had one issue with one of my rims scratched on the C4, otherwise they tend to treat the car pretty well. They know...
It's quite simple: Without service records, books, both keys and the locking wheel nut socket, you either don't buy it or take a risk and buy at a lesser price. There is no reason for any of these cars not to have everything available, the ones that don't generally are auction cars.
Actually there is a good reason for not having everything. Too many Porsches are bought as status symbols by people who really don't look at the cars the way those of us on this forum might. When they get tired of the car or the lease runs out, they trade it in for whatever the next status symbol car might be. And they don't bother handing everything in.
A lot of these cars end up at auction because they were traded at Mercedes, Infiniti, Lexus, etc. Many of them make a great buy because they were never really driven hard. Hopefully the fool that owned them had enough money to properly service them. Probably the most important thing would be to know from where it came. I would be leery of a low mileage Porsche that went to auction from a Porsche dealer, because that definitely would have been a car with issues.
"And they don't bother handing everything in."
So why doesn't the dealer make sure everything is there?.....think of your own answer for that one.. particularly the one that absolves the seller of any liability.
"Probably the most important thing would be to know from where it came."
That's why it has to have the records in the car.
"Many of them make a great buy because they were never really driven hard. Hopefully the fool that owned them had enough money to properly service them."
Actually, NO. Poorly driven or run around the city at low speeds causes plenty of problems to the new owner. The engine never runs at normal temp so it can (and does) carbon up. Water cooled Porsche engines suffer from this. Fools tend not to service their cars.
I go back to no records, no buy. Unless it's cheaper. Always have a PPI and Carfax.
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