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Originally Posted by techweenie
My mechanic has never seen a coolant pipe failure, and he services a few 996 TTs with well over 100K miles on them. But you know how the Internet forums are - everything is a horrible crisis.
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In my experience the failure is isolated almost 100% to track cars. The vast majority of ones I know of are GT3s, which makes sense since they get tracked all the time and TTs not nearly as often.
Westy,
I went engine shopping last night after I posted here. Used TT engines are $12-16k on Ebay. 996 Carrera engines are roughly half that. But like everyone is saying here, the chances that you have a problem with a TT engine are so much lower than a Carrera.
And to TW's reference to the 2nd gear popout? I fully agree with the internet crisis part of that issue. It was an issue from the factory. If the car had the issue it happened in the first 25k mi or so. Almost all of those were replaced under warranty with crate gearboxes. If a high mileage car is popping out of 2nd gear it's because the synchro teeth are totally shagged from bad downshifting. They will look like this upon disassembly:
BTW, it's an issue on BOTH 996TT and Carrera. You don't miss this one by buying one over the other. But don't buy a car that pops out of 2nd and problem solved.
Bill desrcibes when it happens. When you test drive the car, run it up for 5500-6000rpm in 2nd gear. Lift with no brakes. Do that half a dozen times. If it doesn't pop out, no issue. If it happens 1 in 6 it has some wear. More than once, keep looking for another car or factor the repair into your offer price.