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Just now, rowbos said:

Porsche Design 😆

Stop digging.... 

On 7/27/2021 at 8:51 PM, ½cwt said:

I have deliberately built a relationship with the parts manager at my local OPC and they have never failed to give 10% or in a couple of cases more. That is without any club affiliations.

Be nice, make it look like you know what you are about and show you are an enthusiastic Classic owner seems to be the basis to work on.

Or just stroll in wearing crocs like @rowbos and they'll take pity on you

11 minutes ago, Scubaregs said:

Recently sold my DD Corsa, WBAC offered £8180, Arnold Clark offered £8782.

Expected to get knocked down a bit and as the car was pristine I was going to walk away if they played silly buggers. 

"Tidy car sir, £8784."

So £2 extra. 😂

That's your bus fare home as Jim Bowen used to say.

5 minutes ago, cj225 said:

I guess it's possible, but nothing that's been done on it seems consistent with a track car.

I was more thinking that it had become a 'lemonade budget' one - falling into the Zafira ownership type group.

could be right, 11.5k miles over 3 years (without an mot) seems rather high for a track day car

Welcome back. 

Wonder if the SORN period could be explained by it being used as a track car? 

I see it managed to clock up 250 miles between its fail and pass in 2019.... 

Depends on the condition of the other usual suspects. is the hood in good nick? How about the condensers, radiators? Any noises coming from the suspension - try uneven ground like speed bumps and listen for squeaks or knocks. These are all common areas that need work and if there's no history as to what work has been done you'll have to make a call on which bits are likely to be needing to be done. The ad suggests there is some history I'd go over that with a fine tooth comb. 

Neither have psm from what I can see. First has heated seats i think difficult to tell as pics are a bit blurry. Obviously check they work if so. 

I'm looking for tyres for my daily and finding very little choice in the 20 inch sizes and what I am finding is a lot more expensive than before. Brexit? 

13 minutes ago, dpg123 said:

Soooo...forms all sent off the the DVLA. Fingers crossed I get the V5C back sooner than the 6 weeks. In the meantime, the Porsche dealer is happy to store the car and the Land Rover dealer said he's happy to wait. I might end up owning 2 cars for a cross over period where I buy the Macan but don't collect it until I can sell the RR. I can't get parking permits for both!

Anyhow, everything will work out in the end! I hope...

There's space on my drive for a RR so feel free to drop the keys with me for a few weeks.

BTW this is the first tip car I remember hearing of that had imsb failure. 

I wonder if porsche would have a record of what was fitted given the engine number? 

7 minutes ago, craigjam said:

It's my first Porsche/flat 6 so the racket the engine makes is hard to quantify - my friends: "that sounds broken" 😁

it definitely shouldn't sound broken athough in my experience 'off sounds' tend to be exhaust related - particularly loose heat shields - rather than actual engine noise.

1 minute ago, ghazalif said:

Alright I see what you mean. I'm new to the Porsche world and I'm not going to lie the contradictory info makes decisions challenging. In my mind the IMSB was always the most likely cause of engine failure, but if it's not then you're right, the money is better kept for other repairs that'll undoubtedly come. 

I think if you were to ask, you'd find probably less than 5% of 986 owners have actually replaced the IMS bearing.  Even long time owners like me with 10+ years and no intention to sell haven't - in my case because the economics just don't add up.  If my car gave up tomorrow, I could just scrap it and get another and lose less than the cost of the bearing replacement.  Prices are starting to rise so maybe that economic argument will shift again but where we've seen £4k 986s for a long time it just doesn't make sense.  If the bottom of the market moves up to the £10-12k range then it's perhaps a different story.

1 hour ago, ghazalif said:

All fair points. I have no doubt that there is more spending coming my way other than the IMS. The difference is that bad brakes or suspension can be replaced before engine failure, while an IMS (if it breaks with no warning) could lead to a totalled car. 
 

I don’t know who here is a mechanic and has been around these cars enough, but what % of failed IMSs let go slowly enough to be noticed and replaced veggie engine failure? That’s really the question I think

I think you might be missing a point that has been made earlier.  It is that IMS is only one of several possible engine failures that can occur that will total the engine.  On here, in the 10+ years there have been very few IMS failures (some but not many I'd guess less than 5 out of 1000s of owners) but I recall more engines being totalled through other failures e.g. bearing shells failing which has been of the most common failure I think.  I don't recall a single Tip engine failure. The point is that to spend probably 30% of the cars total value to protect again one possible but really very unlikely failure mode doesn't really make sense when another can hit you similarly without warning and without any recourse but to a new engine. 

If you're already getting the clutch done then maybe it makes some sense but in the case of a Tip, I would personally leave it well alone and spend the money elsewhere or just save it so if the worst happens you have the funds available to replace the engine or just to cover the loss if you sell it on for scrap.

25 minutes ago, ghazalif said:

I’m definitely buying it. The only question is whether to replace the IMS or not

I hope you do. But I've seen a lot like you that fret about IMS and end up buying a BMW instead. 

5 minutes ago, K.I.T.T. said:

Which, I guess is a factor in you wanting to replace it.

Just drive the damn thing.

He's not actually bought it yet and my guess is he won't. 

1 hour ago, ghazalif said:

I'm looking at triptronic 986s and I'd assume the repair person would know which bearings to use

I think the part alone price ranges from about £15 for oem to £1500 for the LN Engineering IMS solution. So it's not just a case of the repair person knowing the right bearing. You need to know what you're prepared to spend.

51 minutes ago, edc said:

Bear in mind that there are different bearings and solutions some packaged with RMS or clutch and some not. Make sure you are getting a like for like comparison. Eporsch use the EPS roller bearing for example. 

Which is about 600 quid part only. 

Doubtful but start here :

For me I think the cost of changing the IMS has to be weighed up against what you stand to lose if it fails. IMO it's a very expensive insurance policy against a reasonable unlikely event.  And it only covers you against that one failure mode but these cars could easily hit you with another one. Personally I think a contingency fund is a better bet. 

22 minutes ago, Menoporsche said:

Have you met some of the people on this forum?!

My car is not for sale. 

52 minutes ago, JonSta said:

The owner's dismembered body is in the trunk/frunk. No doubt. Did you see that mythbusters where they put the dead pig in the corvetter and put the car in a container for six months? In California?

 

Ewwwww....

To me, if it was in the launch colours then it would a different matter and I could see 30k or at least the thick end of 20s but its a so-so spec in a so-so colour combination and imo not really that collectable.

7 hours ago, iborguk said:

Yup I feel the same way about the PS2's. I have to play the N game on mine re warranty and these things anchor the car to the road (coming from some four year old Pirelli P Zeros)

When I first fitted ps2 I thought I'd made a horrible mistake, was like braking on jelly. But after a couple of hundred miles (about two years at my rate of progress) they wore in nicely. 

I can fit my trolley bag in the 986 boot with  driver / long irons laid on top. I think two carry bags would go but it would be a bit of a squeeze. Frunk fits a folded trolley easily.