Lee Bollom
Monza
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- 21 Dec 2005
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hello all, most of you will have seen my other post about deciding on 996 coupe or cabrio.
Thought it'd be useful for me to mention what buying considerations I'm basing my decisions on and to let everyone else add anything I'm missing out.
1) Mileage - personally my view is I'd prefer a 50k-70k 996 rather than a 37-50k 996, I looked on JZM website and the 48k service is fairly pricey, so I'm thinking a car of 50-70k is likely to have had its bills paid and I'd be in for 12-18 months of motoring without any major bills. Whats peoples thoughts?
2) Servicing - I'm obviously looking for full porsche sh, myself wound probably then take the car to JZM (heard lots of good things about them). I would be avoiding cars which were taken to specialists early on in there life.
3) Colour - I don't want silver or red (because the last two cars I've had were silver). I'm open to any other colour really. Especially something rare or I haven't seen much of. Going to view a nice grey/purpley car tomorrow.
4) Interior - no weird colours for me - has to be grey/black or I suppose the red leather is always a good look in porsches?
5) wheels - i prefer the carrera dog legs to the gt3 ones. Altho, when it came to it, I don't think this would overule my mind.
6) exhuast - I would actually love to buy a car with a nice sports exhaust.
7) head lights - what do 996's come with, zenons or halogens? was it an option?
ps: i'm not looking for this to turn into a depreciation battle or a coupe vs cabrio battle. From a subjective point of view, it'd be interested to see if you were to consider buying a 996 again what model would you pick.
thanks and free hair cuts (if I get a cab) to anyone who helps with this ;-)
Migration info. Legacy thread was 44769
Thought it'd be useful for me to mention what buying considerations I'm basing my decisions on and to let everyone else add anything I'm missing out.
1) Mileage - personally my view is I'd prefer a 50k-70k 996 rather than a 37-50k 996, I looked on JZM website and the 48k service is fairly pricey, so I'm thinking a car of 50-70k is likely to have had its bills paid and I'd be in for 12-18 months of motoring without any major bills. Whats peoples thoughts?
2) Servicing - I'm obviously looking for full porsche sh, myself wound probably then take the car to JZM (heard lots of good things about them). I would be avoiding cars which were taken to specialists early on in there life.
3) Colour - I don't want silver or red (because the last two cars I've had were silver). I'm open to any other colour really. Especially something rare or I haven't seen much of. Going to view a nice grey/purpley car tomorrow.
4) Interior - no weird colours for me - has to be grey/black or I suppose the red leather is always a good look in porsches?
5) wheels - i prefer the carrera dog legs to the gt3 ones. Altho, when it came to it, I don't think this would overule my mind.
6) exhuast - I would actually love to buy a car with a nice sports exhaust.
7) head lights - what do 996's come with, zenons or halogens? was it an option?
ps: i'm not looking for this to turn into a depreciation battle or a coupe vs cabrio battle. From a subjective point of view, it'd be interested to see if you were to consider buying a 996 again what model would you pick.
thanks and free hair cuts (if I get a cab) to anyone who helps with this ;-)
Migration info. Legacy thread was 44769