Looking for an S2 - Anyone know this car...
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appletonn
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ORIGINAL: zcacogp
Oi!ORIGINAL: appletonn
Oli is the man, when it comes to S2s, so heed his advice or else...[][
Haven't you got a beetle forum to go to or something? [
(Or are you just hanging around here, remembering the good 'ol days when you had a 944, and wondering whether, actually, the Porsche pecking order has something called an 'S2' At the top and something commonly known as a '911' at the bottom ... [
Oli.
Good to see you back Nick. Things have been a bit dull 'round these parts recently ...
Not like you to miss my edit to your comments....?![
]Too quiet for me in the beetle forum...[
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appletonn
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Lots of good S2 coverage in press recently, so hopefully values will now stabilise at sensible levels.
For the OP, as Oli says, lots of recent invoices, a loving owner and check & double check for rusty sills & lower wings and the cam chain scenario.
Alternatively buy a turbo and you don't have any cam chains to worry about and you'll have boooost!!
Biased, moi??!![][]
Good luck
For the OP, as Oli says, lots of recent invoices, a loving owner and check & double check for rusty sills & lower wings and the cam chain scenario.
Alternatively buy a turbo and you don't have any cam chains to worry about and you'll have boooost!!
Biased, moi??!![
][]Good luck
ChasR
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I've said it before on here - we're far too hung up about milage on second-hand cars in the UK. Condition is FAR more important. Who cares whether the number on the dashboard says 60k or 160k miles? Go and look at it. Drive it. Examine it carefully. As Paul said, look at what has happened to it in the last five years. Work out whether you are looking at something that has been deterioraiting in someone's garage, doing nothing but short weekend runs for the last 10 years, or something that has had its legs stretched gently but firmly on a near-daily basis in that time. In my experience, low milage cars drive badly and garage queens drive the worst of the lot.ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty
140K is not high mileage, honest! [
Similar applies to service history. My ideal 944 would be one owned by a clear enthusiast, who knows the car like the back of his hand and clearly has a good workshop in which he has worked on it. A nice big stack of bills for parts (from GSF, OPC's, Bert etc) and clear notes about when the various bits were changed. With, perhaps, the odd bill from an indie for the more complex jobs that were slightly beyond the reach of the owner-mechanic and which he has paid to have done.
To the OP - if you are interested in those two cars, go and look at them both. Find out as much as you can about both of them. Find out what offer would be accepted on either, and go from there. Certainly one of them is being sold by a dealer, which is a bit of a shame as I maintain that you can tell a lot about a car from the person selling it - nice people sell nice cars.
Oli.
Here here! Apart from maybe once where I got a great low mileage car, the higher mileage ones have generally been better in my experience, because things will need to be replaced to keep it going, often more than once. Hell, my engine was diagnosed to be iffy due to a lack of use (I probably overuse my 944 to many people (I cover around 1k miles a month).
At the end of the day, even the youngest examples are now getting on for 18 years old, so condition will outweigh mileage by quite a bit. Bushes perish over time, shocks will not be as fresh as they once were, and things like tyres whilst having lots of tread will be old, and make for interesting characteristics in the wet.
Besides looking at the owner to judge the car (attitudes etc.) look at their premises/home. Most of the time when I have bought a car, if the house is in a half decent area, and generally is in good order (well kept front etc.) it will generally reflect on the condition of the car. So far, I haven't gone too far wrong with it.
DING!
Precisely my outlook on it. I have pretty much decided to buy cars without seeing them, based on meeting the owner at the front door, having a chat and a glance around his lounge and front garden while he unlocks his garage ... nice people sell nice cars. (One of the many reasons why I don't much like buying from dealers - you can't see and judge the last owner.)
Pete - are you suggesting a degree of bias in my rankings? [
]Oli.
Fat Albert
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I bought my turbo with 194K miles on, it drove so much better than the S2 with 94k and an S with 154K
PSH
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who... me??????[8|]
I also agree with the statement about judging a car by it's owner gives you a fair idea of how the car has been treated.
Also I agree you are far better off buying a car that's used daily than one used occasionally just as an occassional car is far better than a garage queen as some call them here...[
]Any car sitting idle is bad news.. a high performance car doing the same is very bad news indeed
Pete
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