Prep needed for road trip

Hello all, I’ve owned my 2002 3.6 Carrera 6MT PSE M030 85k miles with full OPC Service History for nearly 20 years. It was a daily way back when but for the past 8 years or so it’s been parked up on flat stoppers, connected to a CTek and driven to the OPC for its annual service. The tyres, discs, pads, suspension, ECU are all new and pretty much anything the OPC mentions I do. Last year it went in for its’ annual service and it suffered from electrical issues on the way home which they fixed. So, I am stopping long distance motorcycle touring and would like to use my 996 instead. The car is in the Middle East, which means having to drive through empty long stretches of desert roads of about 800 miles until you reach the nice UAE and Oman coastal roads. I really don’t want to be stuck on the side of the road in those places. Is there anything I should be pro actively replacing (belts, chains, electronics, anything etc..)? I’m selling my GSA1250 so I can spend up to £2.5k equivalent at the OPC. Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

Just drive it and enjoy

It sounds well maintained but for that journey in those climates you want particular attention to the cooling system. I mean the aux belt and water pump would be something i'd have a look at but just check, don't replace unless they look bad. Rads are good as long as they're not rotten and leaking , they're also easy to check. Air con although not important for the actual car to move will make such a trip in those temps more bearable so check the joints and condensors for leaks and sort if required. Then go and enjoy

Thank you so much, I’ll add it to my list for the dealer to look at.

I was going to say cooling system, waterpump particually, especially if it's still on the original. The rubber coolant hoses are getting on to, big and expensive job to change all of them though!

Perfect, I’ll add them to the list. All belts and bulbs I was thinking as well.

1 litres of Oil, Coolant, tool kit, tyre foam, windscreen cleaner, spare fuse set, spare set of sunglasses, water bottles

Thank you, I’ve got all of these apart from the fuse set. Do Porsche sell a set or are they generic and can be bought from Halfords?

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generic, fuses are fuses also worth getting a compart car battery power bank and two torch, one compact and one larger capacity assuming you have all of the items need for overseas travel, window breaker / seat belt cutter

Radiator grills to protect from foreign object damage

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Coolant reservoir if original and gone yellow, they're known to age and crack even in the UK climate! Also coolant reservoir cap. Not certain it applied to your engine but there is a plastic connector with a coolant hose on, which goes brittle, it's just to the right of the alternator. Hopefully some one else can advise if this could be an issue for your engine.

I agree with Mac, definitely water pump and consider a coolant hose overhaul. The latter is a well known failure point.

Thank you everyone, this is all really useful. Please keep the suggestions coming.

As others have said check replace coolant hose's and some of the coolant hose's are joined together with plastic fittings which due to age are brittle and break easy, see pic. This is one I broke on my 3.4 996 by moving the pipe out the way, the plastic fitting broke very easily lol.