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What kind of price did you guys get quoted for this?

On 8/8/2023 at 9:37 AM, eob said:

I don't think that the 987 visors can be dissasembled. I tried the 986 fix for mine but I could not get it apart.

What I noticed is that there is that the spindle is not supposed to spin in the visor but the droop is caused by play.

What I did, was get a panel pin and drive it between the spindle and the visor to take up the play. Then I cut off the excess with a jnr hacksaw. It worked very well and is an invisible fix.

Sounds doable!

To be fair it is a bit annoying but recently it seems to be OK!

I'm selling my 987 so I want to sort out a couple of small points, one of which is the droopy sun visor. In its top position it will often fall down 3/4 inches. 

What part do I need to replace to fix this?

I do seem to remember talk about Caymans having a much noisier/boomier interior. Apart from not being able to put the top down that would be a show stopper for me.

On a related note maybe we could try to get a price list going for common and major repairs. 

1 hour ago, Rob™ said:

18 months ago I bought a 987.1 box for  £11.3k based on the knowledge that I'd have to spend on it (pre-inspection pushed the dealer's asking price down). If I'd taken the dealer offer at the weekend (against a >£35k Cayman), I'd have lost £4.5k.

Yeah I would have said between 9k and 10k would be more reasonable for a quick sale. Assuming the repairs weren't crazy that's still not bad. Cheeky dealer though 😂

2 hours ago, zcacogp said:

https://www.fundsmith.co.uk/ Admittedly not the savings account I mentioned in my post but has produced an annualised return of over 19% since inception. 

 

(If you re-do  my earlier figures with 19% instead of 10% then that new car looks like worse and worse value. Viva la banger, eh?)

I'm all in with Fundsmith, Lindsell Train, SMT etc but we're in the longest and best bull market of all time! I think more realistic is around 5% from somewhere like CTY..

Yearly I project the cost of my £15,000 2.9 PDK at £3050ish or £254/mth

£1300 depreciation

£750 opportunity cost

£1000 maintenance.

vs £850/mth for a new Boxster or maybe £250/mth for a bog standard Golf. 

I think it's a bit of a bargain really!