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Originally Posted by ninezeroone
I have not done anything yet. These were just my thoughts since I'm not really sure the best way to go about it. We're both concerned about doing this the safest way. The PPI was done at a local shop that services Porsches and other German cars. He did suggest this shop along with a local dealer where the car has been serviced. I didn't have much luck locating any other shops in the area. I searched here as well. I spoke to the shop both before and after and received a pretty comprehensive report. Up until this point, I've had no reason to believe anything scammish is going on. Is it completely abnormal to do a deal remote without going out to see the car? I purchased a 996 a few years ago, sight unseen, but it was through an independent dealer.
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It's not abnormal, just risky. I've done it, but I had a local brand specialist look at it for me. If I were you, I'd put down a deposit subject to an inspection. Contact the local PCA Club President, get the name of someone in the club who could inspect it for you, talk to him and offer him some money to check it out (a couple of hundred bucks? but he may do it for free?), and then let him go look at it for you.
If it was around the corner would you buy it sight unseen? Of course not. Any PCA guy willing to do the inspection for you will probably be more anal than you will. Give it a try.
GL
Nick