High miles Porsche 911 cost of ownership (996)
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2020
- I've owned my 146,000-mile Porsche 996 Carrera 2 for 3 yrs and covered 7000 miles. How much has EVERYTHING cost?
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My 996 has 120k miles and I do most of my own repair/service and this has been a wonderful car to own.
Currently in the market for one, comments like this keep me hopeful for affordability
Couldnt agree more, the cost to service a regular car is more or less the same as buying porsche OEM parts and installing yourself. So far I did the rear shocks, water pump, thermostat, oil pressure sensor, brake pads. No failires in the past few years all sorted out. Always a pleasure and challenge at times working on my 03 c2 cap tip, porsche 4 life! But what car is easy to work on these days? My 2005 Mazda 3 is tough aswell and a rust bucket. Grinding bolts off is not fun! Almost 400,000km on that winter beater what can one expect right?
Hi, I bought a one owner 996 2002 facelift with 155k.
Owner was using car for regular commute from north England to London most weeks
With mileage at motorway speeds.
Had the car for 8 years now 176k miles and sound.
Mobil 1 every year and regular checks and home servicing by myself .
Great car which I hope is my keeper !
Really interesting video , very informative
I love looking through all the old service history of mine
Total sado but it’s great to know what has been done to the car in the past
Keep up the good work !
Great video and advice thank you, now looking at purchasing my first 911 which I think will be a 996 and found this video very helpful.
Hi. A really objective and interesting view of ownership thanks. I am am hopefully early in the new year about to look to buy a 996 and your video certainly confirmed to me ownership for such a great sports car should not be ridiculously expensive for what will be a weekend toy to visit some shows and hopefully at least one yearly European tour. Expecting to do 7-10k a year so will accept costs to be higher for maintenance but will be looking to do as much of this as I can myself. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next post👍
152k on my 996.1 C2 Cabrio I purchased this year with thorough service history. Runs very strong and pulls nearly to redline effortlessly,, hard to believe after so many years and miles. I’m about to do my first oil change and decided to go all in with L&N engineering’s product and advice based on their long-standing reputation and affiliation with Jake Raby’s IMS Solution etc. This means abandoning the Mobil 1 that got my engine safely to high miles and switching to their Joe Gibbs Driven line for fluids. How will the 152,000 mile workhorse respond? To find out together, we’ll need some kind of...
150k+ CLUB! Partially for fun, but much more for the practicality of sharing our first hand experiences with keeping these near-classics on the road. Have any of you guys checked for bore scoring? If so, what’s the history specifics and extent of the scoring? I’d love to be able to compare notes and make use of any best practices that emerge.
Anyone?
$12,000 to buy, another $12,000 over 3 years for repairs on an 88k-100k car. Now it’s settled. Great car.
Great transparency, and proved it does not cost the earth to run a 996, great cars and anyone who hasn’t had one should try the experience. God knows who put a thumbs down on this video.
Interesting to see this real life information 👍🙂
Excellent video. So much cheaper if you go to a specialist rather than an OPC. Really impressed by your tidy garage though!
Probably little or no depreciation (possibly appreciation?) which offsets some of that cost and you get to drive around in a very nice car.
But only around 2k miles per year (i.e., 40 miles per week), and those not during the Winter (apparently). OK as a a weekender if you can afford it.
Really good , thanks for sharing all the info
This is interesting. I bought mine nearly 2 years ago and it had 147k miles on it (videos on my RUclips channel) but I bought the cheapest one out there and run it on an absolute budget to prove a point (also my everyday car...not that we go anywhere these days). Good to see the other point of view where you can buy high miles car in good condition and spend a bit on it 😊👍🏼
Nice stuff Barry it's a keeper
Great info. thanks !!
Got exact same car and just spent 4k on it, brakes, suspension and engine bits, they are NOT cheap to run and mines only done 86k and fully looked after.
Sorry to hear. Depends on each car, mikes covered, how it’s driven and its previous life
Excellent video, I have a 997.2 with 101k on the clock, I bought it with 60k on it, I have had some big bills, front suspension rebuild but I absolutely love it, the good thing about 911s is that will do high mileage if you maintain them properly.
Thanks - yes i imagine there’ll be much bigger bills from time to time!
@@benbarrycars7628 But at least it will be cheaper than a cheap high mileage Italian exotic
Very helpful. Thankyou
The GT1 headlights look great on the 996
Great video. I have banked on £1000 a year in servicing and maintenance costs on mine.
Would love to buy one but as I live in Ireland it would cost over 1200 euro for road tax, lovely car
I like how you bought a high mileage! You went for it and made it happen! Enjoy it life is short!!
I would guess (and I may be wrong) that, for those service costs quoted at the start of the video, they aren't doing much more than an engine oil change.
Did you try resetting the airbag light first? It's really common for a low battery to trigger an airbag light, has happened to me a couple times working on my 996 C4S and drained the battery and I got an autel tool from amazon that you just plug in and reset the code, also works great on my VW's neat little tool.
Yes Autofarm confirmed it was a bigger issue unfortunately
Great video, just to recap regarding the cost of parts, did that include the labour cost too?
Thanks, and yes, that's everything including labour, though I did the brakes myself
Subscribed interesting video.
Manual and sport seats! Nice
Nice practical perspective. If I understand correctly, ‘total’ cost after getting the steering issue fixed will be around 5 K 🇬🇧? This for a total usage of 10 K miles over a period of 3 years? Thanks
About £5k incl rack but 7k miles
Sweet 911
Sports seats and manual! Nice 👍
Nice car, bought myself an Arctic Silver 98 996 in September these running costs are good to hear. Any chance you can share where you got the tyres at that price please, as I’ll be needing a set in the not too distant future?
I can’t remember the exact cost now sorry but this was representative on a Google search for the best prices and similar to what I paid
I am running on Michelin Pilot Sport- NTB Store in Texas- with protection plan, $750-
Very nice, how do you connect the trickle charge? Do you have to disconnect the negative battery from the car?
There’s a positive terminal under a black plastic cap in the engine bay and then a negative near where the engine lid latches shut
@@benbarrycars7628 thanks!
Mine plugs into the cigarette lighter. Highly recommend.
NICE
So it was the jumpstarting that blew the sensor?
I think so
Such high mileage? Not that unusual for these cars, espcially in the US. The team at G autos in Uppingham are excellent, I am local too and use them as well for my 996! Dove House in Rushden are also excellent and not too far away, I've always had my "annual" there. You need to aim for 7k miles per annum to keep everything well used and stop dampness/ drying of rubber and plastics! If the steering issue is a leak on the pipe it just needs a clip to tighten it up/ seal it - a recognised "fix`.
Thanks John, I’ll never get to 7k a year but I try to use it regularly enough so it’s never standing too long and I also do longer trips so everything is nice and warm
Very useful thanks, I'm seriously considering one of these in a few years time, so this is a great insight, like you I'd rather buy high miles with loads of history. Have you seen the Friends Green Porsche channel? He's a specialist in 996's would be good if you did a collaborative video!
Good idea, yes I’ve watched their videos with interest
How much oil are you burning?
It almost needs a top up between services, but that’s 2-3k miles. So I’d say around 1 litre every 3k ish
IMS done?
Yes, by Autofarm just before I bought
You’re the Max Power bloke aren’t you?
Yes that was my first job, joined feb 2000
set aside money to fix the bore scoring. It's coming