Pianoman, with all due respect everyone will know it is not a turbo as soon as you put your foot down. Don't be sucked in by those retro fitted vents. (excuse the pun) Fifteen grand is a lot of money for this car. Having done it there are so many hoops the car has to jump through to allow you to be issued with a certificate to allow you to apply for a new V5, where upon it will be issued with its original registration mark should it have been changed, and this mark will become non-transferrable. It has to go to one of a limited number of SVA testiing station to have a test to see if it is even fit to have a V5 issued which means checking vin on the front and rear halves match etc., etc., and after all that hassle you might as well buy something for about 17,000 grand up and running, because without even looking I can't see you getting a lot of change out of £2000 to put the interior right and get the new V5. No service history is a big detail. One of the things this can help disguise is the true mileage of the vehicle if it has been missrepresented. On top of that, though this is only a minor detail, is the apparent fragility of the column switch. MY turbo needs a new switch becase a small plastic tab has broken off so the right turn movement barely latches in, and the indicators do not self cancel in either direction, and it has not been in a fire! If the car you are looking at has an OBC lever then the column switch is a massive £270. What else has been baked and become brittle? No, honestly save your money and keep looking. Be patient they are always out there. If you take my example, I did have to trawl for six months or so but in the end I bought a 17,800 mile Turbo cab fully spec'd for £6,000 under dealer forecourt price. As many have said don't let your enthusiam get the better of you, a calm calculated approch is always the best way to buy a Porsche, in fact any car. By being patient I have had a stable of low milage examples. A seven year old 944s with 55,000, in 2005 a 1991 944 turbo with 27,000 yes really twenty seven thousand, a twenty year old 924turbo with 59,000 and of course my 2004 my 996 with 17,800. We all fervently hope that our opinions have convinced you to have second thought about this project. Without wishing to sound immodest, even with my wealth of mechanical knowledge, and perhaps over confidence, even I would shy away from a car that has had an interior fire unless it was bonkers cheap, and you could make one good car out of two, as I did when I bought a 924 about 10 years ago for £250 that has had a short in the dash loom, but even then this did not result in an interior fire. Many of us believe that £15,000 is not bonkers cheap and that you could do a lot better with your money.
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