[nightheart]

I guess I'll chip in my .02cents. The first thing that attracted me to the 944 was the price. I mean a dirt cheap porsche (at least compared to new 911's), but I did come here and a few other places and read up on some of the stuff that can and does go wrong. I'm still not happy with the large repair bills, both past and those that I'm sure are coming, but I deal with it.
Some people can't. I changed transmission fluid and a fuel filter for a friend of mine (94 Saturn) last week, and you should have heard him complain about spending 25 bucks on parts from Autozone. My reply was, would you like to see my last porsche bill?
Some people are just cheap, some don't know what their getting into, and some are just downright stupid. The older the 944 gets, the worse it's going to get. The price of the cars will continue to go down, and the maintence neglect wil be worse. Life sucks sometimes, and I don't envy you at all in dealing with this crap.