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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Big difference between 986 and 996.
Quantify "overwhelming" please. Because I'm pretty certain that very few air-cooled 911s make it past 100k without AT LEAST a head refresh, if not a total rebuild. And lets not get into oil leaks, exploding air boxes, chain tensioners, distributor belts, pulled/snapped head studs, air injection ports, yada yada yada. There's a LOT of M96 equipped 986/996 out there with over 100k on their original engine. Of my 5 986/996 I've never paid a mechanic to do a single thing, they are just as easy to DIY as the early cars and without the ass pain of adjusting valves. Oh yeah, and the A/C actually works.
ANY Porsche, hell any used car, has some potentially expensive fatal flaw. But it is sheer ignorance that glosses over the air-cooled cars well documented failure points only to bash on the newer ones.
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Keep in mind that all the shortcomings of the air-cooled engines are repairable, even by the more able home mechanic, do not cause terminal failure, and do not need a new engine. Here, it is "very Well Sir, that will be 30K, please" when you lunch your water engine. On a car that you just bought for 15-20K, it does not make sense. And there is *zero* independents who tackle these engines. Heck, even the gearboxes were not openable in the beginning...
But it is a matter of opinion and nothing else. I still think they are built on the cheap, are rather ugly, even though they are "better" cars, in the sense that they drive, brake, turn, heat and cool better. But on the long run? forget it.