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So I am back again Having had the 986S for several years, then a 987.1 3.2S for a short time, followed by an 987.1S 3.4 from @Araf I had to sell that one when my commute distance went up massively and then had 4 years in the Alfa Spider 2.4JTDM. My commute changed last year to 8 miles each way and I sold the Alfa just after Christmas and have been hunting ever since.

I wanted a 987.2 and I wanted a 3.4 but prices had turned silly due to Buttercup / lack of new cars etc. It seemed even a poverty spec one was going for £16-17k and I had kind of resigned myself to not having one for a while as I wasn't going to pay that for a lower spec one.

So yesterday morning @Araf posted a link to an Auction near him that had a 2010 987.2 3.4S with 79,000 miles on. I checked the MOT history and all good. Service book present with 6 stamps in.
In typical auction fashion they either did not know or maybe didnt care about the spec, but from looking at the few pics there were it ticked a lot of boxes that I wanted. Sports Crono, PSE, Extended leather, Heated Sports seats, Steering wheel controls for the PCM3 and Litronic headlights were in the pics. The pics also showed a few tiny scratches and the obligatory roof elastic needs tightening! The only problem... the auction started at 10am and finished at 2pm and it was already 10-30am! The opening bid was set to £13,500 and nobody had bid.

Just getting registered to bid I had to provide proof of ID and a utility bill via email. I blagged my way out of work, went home and got the things I needed, went back to work and submitted them. Then the wait to be approved to bid... this came at 1pm and still no bids but I knew it would be a bit like ebay with late bids. I bid and it said reserve not met.. bugger. I know there was a buyers fee of just under £500 given the price it would go for, factored that in and decided that I would set a limit of £17,500 meaning a total cost of £18k. I set the amount and it to £17,500 and the bid jumped to £13,650 and reserve met...

Time ticked on, at 1-20 someone else had a couple of bids as it jumped to £14,250. 5 mins to go, 2 mins to go, 1 min to go... no more bids. 20 seconds to go... 10 seconds to go, then the price jumped to £14,450 and the countdown went up 30 seconds! It seems that when someone bids with a few seconds to go it adds time on...the time ticked down to zero and I was amazed I had got it for £14,450 plus the buyers fee making £14,980. I rung them up to double check it was not provisional etc and it was all good.

Went to pick it up today. It looked great in the flesh, went and got the key and started it up and part dropped the roof to get the roof in the runners correctly. Got back in the car and I could see the Check Engine Light was on... bugger. Drove the car and all seemed fine and dandy so hoping the CEL is nothing too dramatic.
Wow this thing goes... it is the first Boxster I have had that is PDK and it is a superb drive with the 7 speed box. I then on the way home noticed a load more options that you could not see in the pictures. As well as the above mentioned it has Sport and Sport + buttons, PASM, Auto dipping interior mirror, Auto Wipers and Full electric memory seats, colour coded centre console and roll hoops as well. Whoever bought this new properly went all out on the spec!

No pics of the outside yet as I need to clean it properly, I will get the code looked at and cleared. I am tempted to flip it as there is a good profit to be had but I think I will keep it and enjoy it for a while.

But its not a bad centre dash view! Thanks @Araf for the link!

Might need to find an online owners manual to work out what to do with everything!

4 minutes ago, ½cwt said:

If I'm allowed to ask, what did you get?

987.2 link is in the classified thread... its all @Arafs fault for posting links....tsk

Bought it

Click on the picture on Flikr, then click the download button, right click on original size, click copy link and paste to where you want it

Totally different

My mistake, thought it was the gardener  

19 hours ago, Davey P said:

.  I'm paying monthly, and after an initial one-off £19.94 deposit it's £22.58 per month, which I think is a decent price.  I could have saved just under 30 quid by paying in one installment, but I prefer to spread the cost over the year. 

 

Wow, that is over 10% interest.... you can tell the owners that pay the Indies to change their bulbs

You might want to look into AdBlue delete from the system

Link for an example Porsche Macan, Adblue Delete and Stage 1 Remap - Project Remaps

Just looked on Trustpilot and they seem to be doing ok on there, I would still be wary of the cost they charge and whether the work really needs doing

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.caymanautos.co.uk

Selling after 3 months of ownership is a massive question mark for me.

I went there with my Alfa Spider... would not recommend them at all!

The quote they gave me included insanely high mark up on parts. Roof flap motors at the time were £80 each and they quoted over £300 each and £200 labour to fit, they are held in with 3 screws and are a 5 minute job to change.... and did not even need replacing.

They quoted over £140 each for hydraulic struts which are £20 each and again massively high labour when you can change all 4 in under half an hour.

I declined their quote of work they said needed doing (in excess of £1,500). I did some research and worked out it was 2 struts that needed changing to fix the problem and did it myself for £40 in under half an hour.

A lot of the work they advised was totally not needed.

its under the bonnet in one of the pics

We need a "What have you done to your loan Cheyenne today?" thread.

You need to post in the "What have you done to your Cheyenne today?" section then 😛

1 hour ago, ½cwt said:

Need a new topic,

What Have You Done to Your 987C today, Davey P?

It would be full of commentslike "had an indicator bulb go, so took it to the OPC to change it"

Have I stumbled upon macan.net by accident? 😛

#firstworldproblems

SGS are brilliant, used them for all the roof struts on the Alfa.

absolute doddle to change, 5 min job for both sides 

Amazon sell it for under £5 for a container, more than enough to do all your rubber seals numerous times

Liqui Moly 7182 Rubber Care 75 ml : Amazon.co.uk: Automotive

Gummi Pflege

1/2 right then

One was in one Mission Impossible 2 films too 

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For me yes for all the reasons given re demisting etc. Also when its stupidly hot its quite nice to have the roof down and the air con on your feet

Also consider the knock on to resale value when you come to sell.

I went from a 986 3.2 to a 987.1 3.2 to a 987.1 3.4. I am 6ft3 and found the extra space in the 987 a bonus. The biggest difference is in the interior, the 986 is very 1980's and the 987 is a lot more modern.

Not a lot in it in performance as the power difference is only small really.

2 hours ago, RalphyBMW said:

On window regulators - my passenger door glass rattles when opening and closing the door.

I’ve been into the door and made sure nothing was loose; the window works perfectly.

Does this sound like a regulator issue? That’s the only thing that holds the glass, right?

There are 2 metal holders the window sits in, sounds like they have not been tightened up properly... door panel off to get to the holders