944 S2 Beware !!

[J.C944TurboMan]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-944-S2-coupe-1990-white-with-black-leather-/201113763450?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2ed3507e7a

I agreed a price with seller and went to have a looking this evening and was ready to drive home in style , having insured the 944 S2 before I set off.

The cam chain is rattling and the belts need doing asap . The front end is two tone .

The sill did seem good for the year and some one put plenty of wax oil in there .

Fuel lines are blitz and will need replacing .

Interior was pretty good . Rear panel needs painting .

To me it is a breaker Will need a lot of money spending on the S2 to get up to scratch .

 

[zcacogp]

Bit harsh to say it's scrap just because it needs some belts and fuel lines. Those parts don't write a 944 off. Paintwork is more expensive, but doing the bits you mention should easily give change from a bag of sand, so add on the cost of a belt kit (£200 or so, with pulleys) and a chain and slippers (£100) and soem replacement flexible fuel lines (dunno, £150?) means less than £1400 in and you have a good car. If you buy it for £2000 then it sounds like a bargain.

Scrapping otherwise serviceable 944's is what causes the demise of the model. We need to work to keep them on the road.


Oli.

 

[Hallsy]

Should have kept your old one JC!!

But I agree with Oli, sounds far from a breaker to me. At the end of the day, £2K is cheap for an S2, so even after spending some money on it, you could still hwve a nice S2 with a few of the jobs out of the way for less than £4k.

 

[George Elliott]

Advertised Cat D and Sold as seen....what you expecting JC?

 

[DC911SC]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

Bit harsh to say it's scrap just because it needs some belts and fuel lines. Those parts don't write a 944 off. Paintwork is more expensive, but doing the bits you mention should easily give change from a bag of sand, so add on the cost of a belt kit (£200 or so, with pulleys) and a chain and slippers (£100) and soem replacement flexible fuel lines (dunno, £150?) means less than £1400 in and you have a good car. If you buy it for £2000 then it sounds like a bargain.

Scrapping otherwise serviceable 944's is what causes the demise of the model. We need to work to keep them on the road.


Oli.

plus surely thats exactly the project a lot of people on here, myself included are looking for and would be quite happy to do the jobs themselves and enjoy.

Its worth mentioning that quite often a good compound with a machine polisher can tone down said colour mismatches, as the old paint takes on dirt and stains the top layers, cutting that back brightens it up.