Remember this Turbo for sale in Scotland...?!

[appletonn]

I remember this being for sale at a dealer in Scotland and various posts about the car - well read what the buyer of the car from said dealer has to say about it, now that he is selling it on....[]

Another example of 'buyer beware' I think and the old "there is no such thing as a cheap Porsche" idiom.[]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1986-PORSCHE-944-TURBO-MARICHINNO-RED-NO-SWAP_W0QQitemZ250354825257QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item250354825257&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A7%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

 

[Jonny B]

Yeah i seen this for sale a few times. Isnt 2.5k cheap, even if you need to change the exhaust, its no biggy really is it.... Other than close inspection of the sills it seems like a snip. The rest of the niggly probs are the usual list for a car this age.

 

[Black_JPN]

As always, buyer beware. It sounds like a lot of what he listed could have been picked up during a simple viewing, I'm assuming he did not have too much 944 knowledge? Like knowing the key opens the boot etc. Maybe, he viewed with rose tinted specs on (most likely). Shame really. Not sure I quite agree with his comments toward the garage, it does seem a tad unfair as he didn't pay much for it in the first place. As Jonny has said they sound like minor niggles, it'd be a miracle to buy a car of that age/ilk from anyone for that price without having to do something on it.

 

[pauly]

Same dealer, same colour, different car ?, the original car was a Turbo S I think, I was in contact with the previous owner before this garage advertised it, I seem to remember it had gearbox problems and then disappeared.

 

[911sse]

What do people expect from any 22 yr old car, £3k car?!

 

[wibble]

Agree - minor niggles in my opinion. He bought the car with his heart (and we've all been there).

 

[TTM]

Maybe he expected to get the same "value" as his Audi?
Minor niggles for a car that seems quite clean overall.

 

[ashonen]

well the car looks nice to me and as said minor things that could be put right in a weekend but for the money i for one would not complain

 

[Lemon]

I noticed that too.

Said dealer had a Turbo S in Marachino Red, then a little while after the car in discussion now, which is a 220 bhp.

 

[n8ony]

The car is still on the dealers web site as sold.

I nearly bought a car from him as well. I was put off by my local Indy who was concerned with any car that has spent too much time in Scotland with the amount of salt they put on the roads!

 

[Fen]

It does seem better that I had expected.

What I sould say though it (and you should all know this) is that 944s don't get little blister on the sill. They get a small external indication that the sill it already rotten beyond repair from the inside, so that car needs at least one sill, and my money would be on it needing 2.

 

[Black_JPN]

Slag the guy off who he bought it from then use the same pictures to try to sell it! He could at least take a few of his own...

 

[Alpine]

he's not going to sell it for anything like its value with his ebay sale worded like that.

Wasn't there some discussion on here a few months ago about '44 in Scotland for sale, and there was a long thread about why we were saying he shouldn't buy it, but he backed out because the gearbox went pop, or was that an S2?

 

[Alpine]

this is what I was thinking of - is it the same car?

http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=400826&mpage=1&key=

 

[appletonn]

ORIGINAL: Alpine

he's not going to sell it for anything like its value with his ebay sale worded like that.

Wasn't there some discussion on here a few months ago about '44 in Scotland for sale, and there was a long thread about why we were saying he shouldn't buy it, but he backed out because the gearbox went pop, or was that an S2?

Well that's what i was thinking - people aren't exactly going to be rushing to bid, when he words it like that!

 

[ccampbell84]

Hello folks, not been on the forum for a while...i was looking at a very similar car from the same dealer and got some valuble pointers from the forum 3 or 4 months back. The car was a Turbo S in the same colour, and yes the gearbox went 'pop' and that's how the deal collapsed. Me thinks he got a better offer and just punted it despite my deposit.

Anyway he tried to sell me this car which he got in a week or so later, looks nice on the face of it...a clean 220 Turbo and pretty cheap. Only thing is it was advertised with 106000 miles on the clock, I checked its MOT history online and the mileage at its 2008 MOT was approaching 190000. Additionally with the problems listed on the ebay ad, I really do feel sorry for the new owner and I can see why he wants to sell it....

 

[gresley]

As a matter of interest how did you check the mileage on line - did the seller give you the test doc number or the V5 number? Must have rung alarm bells with him when you asked for it!

AWW

 

[morris944s2john]

If you can weld, paint and do mechanical work, that car looks a great project- maybe one for the next Edd China series??

"EXHAUST NEEDS SORTED AT FLANGE ON EXHAUST SIDE OF MANIFOLD...CRUDELY PLASTERED IN GUN GUM...HENCE NOISEY EXHAUST.

CENTRAL LOCKING TEMPROMENTAL AND NEEDS LOOKING AT.

SUNROOF NOW SORTED AS BOTH THE REAL CLIPS THAT HOLD IT IN PLACE WHEN CLOSED WERE MISSING COMPLETELY.

THERE HAS BEEN A REPAIR ON THE SILL AND BEEN TREATED BUT COLOUR ON SILLS IS NOT SAME...LOOKS FINE BUT WOULD BENIFIT FROM COLOUR CODING PROPERLY.

BOOT LOCK SEIZED BUT OPENS FROM ELECTRIC BOOT OPENING.

SLIGHT POWER STEERING FLUID LEAK.

HAS A SLIGHT MISFIRE OCCASIONALY AND IM LED TO BELEIVE THE DODGY EXHAUST CONTRIBUTES TO THIS.

AIR FILTER COVER NEEDS SORTED AS ALL SCREW HOLES DAMAGED, HAVE TIEWRAPPED IT AS NOT WORTH BOTHERING ABOUT.

BUTTON MISSING OF ONE OF KEYS FOR THE LIGHT ON KEY."

Really, that is nothing! I would re-spray the sill, sort the exhaust and drive it like that as I sorted the other problems.

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: gresley

As a matter of interest how did you check the mileage on line

Since the new computerised MOT system started a few years ago you can check any cars MOT history as long as you have the Reg number and either the MOT number or Reference number from the V5 log book. Seems a good idea to make a note of these when looking through any cars service history and then double check things back home.

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/

I think this is the 2nd time (on forums) that I have heard of someone checking mileage this way and finding a discrepancy []