Advice appreciated on future maintenance / repair

[SiPie]

Although I’ve always serviced and repaired all my bikes competently (push bike types…) the ‘spanner fear’ kicks in when potential damage to my vehicles that use petrol, water and electricity could result from my tinkering.

I know these are relatively simple cars to look after but with a lack of tools and time, I am left wondering how best to keep the Boxster S in good health going forward. It is a 2^nd car for me so no daily driver pressure of a quick fix needed to get it back on the road etc.

I plan to keep it for a good few years and like my other cars I want it be in as good nick as possible. It has good service history with OPC for the first 40k then independents up to its present 67k. Thousands spent in last couple of years getting it right by previous owner.

There are a few decent independents within 50 miles or so of where I live and one of those is my probable route, however, I have a friend who is local engine builder and an excellent mechanic who builds Subaru race engines and seriously modifies MX5s for the main part of his living and I feel that if he can turn his hand to shoehorning a BMW M5 V10 engine into a Z4 and all the engineering surrounding that conversion (interesting thread in general on Z4 Forum) then I reckon the care of the Boxster should be no problem to him. He has looked after my previous Subarus with good results.

However, he has little experience of working on Porsches and I wonder if this should really be a concern….. I feel that a Porsche specialist would be so familiar with the marque that they would spot potential issues before they arise, they will know that a water pump is likely to fail at so many thousand miles etc where as my mate may miss these signs not working on them regularly.

Any opinions on how best to look after the 986s going forward as I love the car and want to enjoy it for a few years with preventative maintenance always being my preference over reactionary?

Cheers

Si

[edc]

If preventative is your mindset then I'd suggest a good local Indy for the first year or 2 at least will help. Spend the same time yourself reading around here on member ride threads and running reports and you will begin to get a good feel for the longevity of parts and some likely failures and failure modes. If you trust yourself and your mechanic mate enough this would then be a sensible time to switch. 

[perleman]

To be honest if he can do a E60 M5 engine swap into a z4 the Boxster will be child’s play to him. It will make it harder to sell no doubt if service history is missing and you have to tell potential buyers ‘my mate did it’