Porsche boxster with new engine yay or nay

Cyrus

I was behind this car today and admiring it, when i noticed later that it was on carzone,

its a 03 boxster s, which has had a new engine fitted,id be interested in what happened and what mileage the car had covered before and who fitted it etc, but its well priced, is a new engine a reason to totally avoid one?

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/3.2-S/201024198397730/advert?channel=CARS

Seperate

Like you said, once it's been fitted and maintained by someone reputable, I would count it as a positive point on the car.

Do you really want a boxster though? I thought you were settled on the M3 again? Or are you ever truly settled on anything...?

Plug

You can get an E46 M3 for that price. A boxster is a hairdressers car:p

JJJJNR

would you get a 03 cab M3 for that money?

mickdw

The larger capacity versions based on the 3,2 did suffer from cracked cylinder liners in the early water cooled engines. Unlikely to have been the issue here though.
Overall, I wouldnt mind the new engine if properly documented

af_thefragile

Looks like a nice car but yeah for that much you could also get a Lotus Elise.
Why would you wanna buy a that over a Lotus Elise...?
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Lotus/Elise/111S/201026198591957/advert?channel=CARS
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Lotus/Elise/1.8L-Twi/201030199016828/advert?channel=CARS

Bandara

Cyrus

I'm sorry to do this to you but I reckon your so dying to get rid of the TT that your just buying another car that your not really into, and you'll lose your shirt on in a few months when you hate it. Just like the Z4 etc.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59966039&postcount=24

Cyrus

Lol don't believe anything I say! Tt is sold anyway so I've cash in hand

TCP/IP

Buy this

http://www.carzone.ie/search/BMW/3-Series/335i-M-S/201032199128131/advert?channel=CARS

unkel

Cyrus wrote: »

I was behind this car today and admiring it, when i noticed later that it was on carzone,

its a 03 boxster s, which has had a new engine fitted,id be interested in what happened and what mileage the car had covered before and who fitted it etc, but its well priced, is a new engine a reason to totally avoid one?

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/3.2-S/201024198397730/advert?channel=CARS

Lovely

And you'll be on track for wanting your next, more proper car after that within the year

Think cayman then 997

Anan1

Did that car get a new crated engine, or a used one out of a doner car? What's the total mileage on the car? Putting 12,500 miles down because that's what's on the engine does not exactly inspire confidence in me.

galwaytt

Anan1 wrote: »

Did that car get a new crated engine, or a used one out of a doner car? What's the total mileage on the car? Putting 12,500 miles down because that's what's on the engine does not exactly inspire confidence in me.

that's exactly what I thought. In fact, advertising it as a 12.5k miles car is misleading, and probably in breach of something-or-other......

OP.....I'm not saying don't buy it, but I'd have to seriously question an 03 Boxster S for that kind of money. If you buy it 'in it's sins', eyes wide open, then, grand. But if it's cheap, it's cheap for a reason.

In a nutshell, all the M96 engine'd Porsche's, 911 & Boxster, do have a rep for letting go, unannounced. And, given the dearth of parts available to rebuild them, most 'new' engines are simply secondhand ones sourced somewhere else...........which is no gaurantee of......anything, tbh. There are no piston's bearings, in u/s or o/s, available, so what exactly WAS done to it, and why ?

If the engine is in fact new, there should be a docket with it, and an invoice for either.........€12,500 (subsidised by Porsche AG), or €19,500 if not subsidised.:eek: Yep, really !

If it's changed for another used one well.........I'd be taking €5k off it for a start. And still wouldn't rush in.

Ferris

galwaytt wrote: »

OP.....I'm not saying don't buy it, but I'd have to seriously question an 03 Boxster S for that kind of money. If you buy it 'in it's sins', eyes wide open, then, grand. But if it's cheap, it's cheap for a reason.

In a nutshell, all the M96 engine'd Porsche's, 911 & Boxster, do have a rep for letting go, unannounced. And, given the dearth of parts available to rebuild them, most 'new' engines are simply secondhand ones sourced somewhere else...........which is no gaurantee of......anything, tbh. There are no piston's bearings, in u/s or o/s, available, so what exactly WAS done to it, and why ?

+1 those engines have a habit of breaking the timing chain on very rare occasions. You'd need a lot more info and possibly to talk to the mechanic who fitted the engine. 15k is very cheap for that car, you'd make that back by breaking it ffs.

Also I wouldn't listen too much to people saying its a hairdressers car, a mate of mine had one and it was simply brilliant to drive. Has less power than the M3 but also weighs so much less. They're serious money to maintain however.

Cyrus

galwaytt wrote: »

that's exactly what I thought. In fact, advertising it as a 12.5k miles car is misleading, and probably in breach of something-or-other......

OP.....I'm not saying don't buy it, but I'd have to seriously question an 03 Boxster S for that kind of money. If you buy it 'in it's sins', eyes wide open, then, grand. But if it's cheap, it's cheap for a reason.

In a nutshell, all the M96 engine'd Porsche's, 911 & Boxster, do have a rep for letting go, unannounced. And, given the dearth of parts available to rebuild them, most 'new' engines are simply secondhand ones sourced somewhere else...........which is no gaurantee of......anything, tbh. There are no piston's bearings, in u/s or o/s, available, so what exactly WAS done to it, and why ?

If the engine is in fact new, there should be a docket with it, and an invoice for either.........€12,500 (subsidised by Porsche AG), or €19,500 if not subsidised.:eek: Yep, really !

If it's changed for another used one well.........I'd be taking €5k off it for a start. And still wouldn't rush in.

well those are the questions ill be asking lads, obviously unless its a crate engine fitted by porsche with receipts etc im not interested, and also the car could have had 100,000 miles before the engine was fitted and if so its a 112,00 mile car regardless of a new engine,

galway tt are you saying its cheap or expensive? imo if it stacks up the price is about right but certainly not cheap, especially if compared to an e46 m3 of the same era

mjquinno

af_thefragile wrote: »

Looks like a nice car but yeah for that much you could also get a Lotus Elise.
Why would you wanna buy a that over a Lotus Elise...?
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Lotus/Elise/111S/201026198591957/advert?channel=CARS
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Lotus/Elise/1.8L-Twi/201030199016828/advert?channel=CARS

bit off point

That second lotus has been crashed a few times - read it on the lotus forum on octane.ie

blingrhino

TCP/IP +1

Cyrus

That car is off the agenda over 100k on it before the engine went

Ferris

What about this special edition, has to be attainable for 20k:

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/%27S%27-S550/201027198751567/advert?channel=CARS

Or this facelift, again a cheeky offer could get it:

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/S/201010197163004/advert?channel=CARS

TCP/IP

The special edition one was my car it's a cracker of a machine I looked after it.

Cyrus

Ferris wrote: »

What about this special edition, has to be attainable for 20k:

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/%27S%27-S550/201027198751567/advert?channel=CARS

Or this facelift, again a cheeky offer could get it:

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Porsche/Boxster/S/201010197163004/advert?channel=CARS

special edition is lovely, but it will be around a long time at that price,

really like the 987s, but im not sure if i want to spend that kind of money now, may take a good e46 m3 for under 20k instead, driving 4k per annum doesnt justify a big outlay