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Originally Posted by msk1986911
You guys are incredible! I hadn't been considering the Boxster due to maintenance and repair concerns...I had thought they were not all that DIY friendly and were expensive to repair. Are my preconceived notions off base? I saw an ad posted on Cars.com, in my area, for a 2002 Boxster, with factory hard top for $18.5 K (about 55K miles).
Mike
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The modern porsches and in this case Boxsters are very DIY friendly... Check out PPBB.com, tons of how-tos for those cars. Really, some things are easier than on aircooled cars... No valves to adjust, no torsion bars indexing, many electronic doodads you can play with to improve power or throttle response, you can add functions that were disabled in the computer (low optioned cars), and engine accessibility is actually quite good - once you move the top out of the way (lots is done from underneath anyway)
The only issue as mentioned before is RMS / IMS problems, but chances are that 8y old car is either fine or has already been repaired. There are issues with all model years of porsches, as you know... Absolute worst case, new engines are not all that expensive (same cost as rebuilding an aircooled motor) and there are lots of used motors you can score off junkyards...