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Sounds like the issue is coming from the passenger side to me.
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Hello Everyone, I'm going to buy a C4s in the next few days and has found 3. Yellow at Sandredhill Ford, Red at Merc of Federricksburg or blue at Auto by Design. They all around same Options and same Price. Much Appreciated if anyone knows any info on these cars or can steer me towards or away from 1. Thank you All.
Blue
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Red
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Yellow
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Can you post the VINs so we can see the build sheets. Yellow 996 have been commanding a premium price but red and blue are also very nice. Color is more a personal preference. Worry more about the PPI results and the service records available on each.
Thanks Everyone that gave an opinion...I'm Leaning towards the Yellow 1 too. I was sent pics of the underside, but I don't know how to post those here for everyone to view.
Make sure whoever does the PPI is familiar with 996 and pay extra for an invasive bore scoping via the sump. If you�re gonna layout nearly $50k cosmetics doesn�t matter, the health of the engine does!
Without more detail it's hard to say. I'm biased for red as have always been, but yellow is a close second.
The yellow C4S looks very nice, but I wouldn't buy a 996.2 without having the cylinders scoped like Optionman1 noted. Are there service records for prior maintenance?
I'm having second thots on the yellow 1 now. They sent me a vid of the engine running and I can cleay hear a tick tick tick constant. Might be sign of beginning Bore issue. : - (
Is it stock exhaust? Seems like when I went with my full exhaust headers, 200 cell CATs and mufflers I heard a lot more chatter in the back then with OEM. Who knows maybe my poor ole 996 has the dreaded bore score. I'm about to buy the LN deep sump oil pan and Ill have them look then. I've had my 996 for a decade now.
I hear the ticking but could be the injectors firing as well or an exhaust leak. Sounds like the issue is coming from the passenger side to me. Maybe they would pay for a inspection if you were serious. Its worth asking.
Also its worth noting that I've heard that the majority of bore scoring come from cars in colder climates. I don't know how much truth lies in that but it makes sense to me. You may want to find out where the cars been driven the majority of its life.
If you search the VIN of the yellow one, a post on firstflatsix mentions an accident on the carfax
https://firstflatsix.com/paid-featur...arrera-4s-6sp/
That accident takes away from the value. Remember you need to think that one day you may want to sell. I only saw the yellow one, and I saw the price. Once you pay taxes it�s a $50k car. Do not buy any of them unless you do a PPI scoping the bores. You are in Pensilvania and that being a colder climate, I will be extremely concerned about the bores. I personally would buy the one with the best documented service history. Also consider recent service, if the clutch ,aos, rms and IMs were already done, brakes, plugs, coils. That�s a bunch of money you are not going to have to spend. A final thought, show all three dealerships that you have the means to buy the car, put them in competition with each other and if you get one to do a ppi and pay for it get the others to play the same game. My favorite color is blue so I�m partial to that one. My daily is that F150 supercrew Velocity Blue.
I wanted a different color. this car had a bunch of maintenance done at Porsche dealerships and about $5k in mods. Clean car fax no accidents.
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