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The battery has been replaced a couple of times until he put a tender on it.
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I wouldn't drop the oil pan but I would do a couple short interval oil changes (500-1000 miles) and check the filter really good.
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Hello, newbie here with a newly purchased 2000 C2 with 43k km (27k miles). The car was barely driven the last 8 years and I want to get off to a good start with maintenance as this will be my daily driver.
What, due to 8 years of inactivity should be renewed/replaced?
Immediately I am changing oil, spark plugs, air filter - just to establish a baseline.
What else?
Thanks rennlisters!
GG
Welcome gundesen.
I would think oil, radiator coolant, brake fluid. Is the gasoline fresh? If not, might want to drain it and put in fresh gas. Take a look at the serpentine belt for cracks. Check the age of the tires - if you cannot find a date stamp on them, then you should consider a new set of tires.
safe to say that after 8 years in storage, everything you mentioned should just be replaced.
hell....even if I buy a used car, I will replace all fluids if the service history isn't there.
start fresh.
Some leather conditioner on the seats, while not essential, wouldn't hurt...
Take a good look for evidence of nesting mice/rats and examine the wiring if you find any.
27K miles on a 15-year-old car. That's awesome. Assuming a sticker price of $90K, the previous owner paid $3.33 for every mile he/she put on the 996. I'm assuming you'll do your best to start exercising the odometer properly.
Pictures, dammit!
My 1999 C2 was in storage since 2001 when I purchased it about a year ago. In order to get it to run I needed a new battery, fuel tank cleaning, fuel pump, and of course new fluids. As I drove it I began to notice other things that needed to be replaced. I changed one of the ignition coils, heater core, new coolant reservoir, and an aos bellow. After doing all of this it runs like a brand new car.
Does it have any record of getting it's oil changed regularly during that dormant period? If not, you might want to open the pan (or at least scope it once the oil is drained) to make sure it's not too cruded up in there.
Check all the weather seals around the doors, windows, frunk, and bonnet. They may have started to dry rot and speaking of that, new tires might be good (they harden as the age and you also may have flat spots).
In addition to the engine air filter, get the cabin filter while you are at it.
Otherwise I think all the immediate stuff is covered, unfortunately as you start driving it more stuff is likely to start to fail due to it's lack of use. So even though you want to make it a DD, be prepared for it to be unavailable at times due to something or another deciding it needs to be replaced.
Good luck
No, clearly it was not. Do you honestly think you'd need to change the fluids on a car from KK's family?
I would imagine the biggest problem buying from the K family would be rounded-off bolts from being disassembled and reassembled every weekend for 15 years.
Welcome to Rennlist. Some good suggestions so far. Check out suspension components as well. Do you plan to DIY some/all of these or taking it to a shop? If you are planning to work on it yourself we have some pretty good tech articles
here
that may be useful. Good luck!
Great comments already.
Battery
Oil
Brake fluid flush
Radiator flush
Tires
Check bushings, hoses, seals. Anything seeping would get a closer look, anything dripping obviously needs to be addressed.
I wouldn't drop the oil pan but I would do a couple short interval oil changes (500-1000 miles) and check the filter really good.
Oh, and pics or it doesn't exist.
Thanks a lot to everyone so far! I am a DIYer to the end, only way I can afford it. I have previously owned a 944 and 944 S so am not a total neophyte to the Porsche world. I have backup in the form of good road bike and a 1981 Westphalia. Here is a teaser pic. The car comes with all records from new; it was imported into Canada by the current owner from a dealer he knew in California. It has been driven occasionally during the last 8 years but not sure how much. The battery has been replaced a couple of times until he put a tender on it. It was serviced locally by the Porsche dealer so at least oil changes. The dealer complained that it wasn't being driven enough :-) I will correct that oversight. By the way, price was $22k CDN ( about $1.95 US at today's rates).
At the top of the agenda is an iPod adapter to the stereo.
Can you believe when O'Bama took office the iPod did not exist? Anyway, that was seven years ago and the Black Berry didn't play music so take care of that right away.
Welcome. Great looking car, and an amazing deal. Congrats!
Some great tips on maintenance issues from the other guys. You might also consider engine mounts and transmission oil. Oh yea, maybe new coil packs.
Yea, sorry but I don't do apple. Maybe something with bluetooth later. First I'm going to enjoy the sweet natural sounds from the aft end of the car :-)
Congrats on your ride, mine was the same barely driven as a preventive maintenance this was performed :
-Flush and replaced all fluids
-Cabin filter
-Sparkplugs
-Camshaft Actuators
-Serpentine Belt
-Tires
The battery was already replaced when I got it
Sounds good. Maybe there is another device that plays music.
You'll find a lot of guys on the forum listen to their engines and turn there noses up at music, cup holders (drinking in the car) and plastic Chinese center caps from eBay. You'll here a lot of "fix it right or don't fix it". That's what the mechanic says right before he screws you or a DIY repair that took all day when a five minute piece of duct tape or a zip tie would have sufficed.
There is a ton of other great information on the forum but you have to wade through the opinions as there are numerous widely held beliefs with no support. Trust the dipstick over the gauge and don't mix tire brands comes to mind. Lot's of conventional wisdom stuff with no science.
Wow, that rambled past music to a bunch of unsolicited advice. Welcome aboard.
Is there a easy way on these to spin the oil pump without starting the engine? May not be a bad idea with something sitting this long, or maybe take the plugs out and turn it over (while grounding the plugs) until there is oil pressure (with new oil).
Just thinking.
Or spray some oil in the cylinders.
Really good suggestions. Love the color. Killer deal.
On the lighter side if things: Don't forget to finger your sump. Find out if the guy ran his engine every week even if he didn't drive it; someone was doing that recently.
Well that is easier than dropping it... Depends on how big your hands and fingers are, could be a tight hole, in which case dropping it would give you more room to work. Also if the hole is dry it wouldn't hurt to lube your finger.
When I start up my car for the first time after winter hibernation I just pull the fuel pump fuse and then crank the engine for a few seconds. I believe that is enough to get some oil into the cylinders.
Ideally you would spin the oil pump with a drill or something first and build up pressure. This takes some wear off of the cams and bearings.
With taking the spark plugs out (I think anyway) it takes enough force out of the system to make it easier on the bearings, but doesn't really do much for the cams.
The reason I'd want to spray something in the cylinders is to help them move, just in case they are stuck or there is some gunk in there that could cause a scratch. Due to the rings, (hopefully) they should not allow any oil to build up and so doing what you suggested wouldn't really do much to lucubrate the cylinders - although it would be better for the cams and bearings.
Personally, I wouldn't worry about doing anything different over a winter, or even two years, although once you get around 4-5+ then it may be time to pay more attention to things.
IMO
Even though Porsche doesn't really recommend fuel additives, I'd pour in some Chevron techron fuel system cleaner and go for a spirited drive. Then do the fuel filter too.
Don't bother changing the spark plugs and if the air filter looks good, leave that alone too.
Drain the fuel tank, put a battery in it and see it it fires up. If it does, let it warm up to operating temperature and listen to make sure everything sounds right. Then let it cool down enough to change the oil. After this, drive around in the neighbourhood and clean the brake rotors off, see if the brakes feel good, listen to odd noises. If all looks good, change the coolant and go for a longer drive. If the brake rotors only have surface rust, they will clean up in a day or so of driving.
Yes! It's Vesuvio metallic. Very interesting colour as it changes depending on the angle of the light. Space grey leather interior. Drove it home about 350km yesterday, what a grand car for the highway. Even in 6th gear passing is near instantaneous.
