[Superman]

First, I would generally not trust a dealership to do a PPI for a very simple reason. They rarely have staff who understand these older cars. They know EXACTLY how to work on a 2003 996, but are almost always completely clueless about Porsches more than ten years old. For example, I doubt they could tell you whether this car has any broken head studs. In fact, if you ask them this and they make any dumb facial expressions, you will know that they did not look for this common and potentially expensive problem, and might not even know offhand what they should be looking at.

4000 miles between oil changes is plenty acceptable to me, almost regardless of the time period. Others may disagree.

I would say this car has some (at least minor) issues, and evidence of less-than-tender and loving- care. The side marker light sockets may be rusted out, for example. This is sometimes kindly termed "deferred maintenance."

Good older Porsches are available at some very attractive prices these days. If I were shopping, I'd probably pay $16-$18 for the car I'd buy, but it would have new or virtually new shocks, torsion bars, carrera tensioners, strut brace, backdated heating, maybe carbs, maybe 98mm P&Cs, probably race seats, etc. It would be a butt-kicking car.