If it were long hood it would be 10 times that, if a G series probably double.
When they first started selling the 911 in North America, rep was asked about the maintenance schedule, they replied, it will not need any. A bit of an exaggeration, but I know plenty of guys with a LOT of miles on Porsches and they just keep on going.
I know this car, and I know the service advisor that was in charge of it for most of its advanced life. It had been extremely well cared for.
RedGT wrote: You can see the mileage pic is at 68 mph...they reset the trip meter 59 miles prior to the milestone for the photo op. People do this all the time with 80,085, 123,456,798, or 111,111 and the trip meter at 111.1 or whatever.
I have a picture somewhere of a Jag I used to have as the odometer was at 99999 and the trip was at 999.9. I wanted to get it at 99 mph but i was making a left through an intersection instead.
Will have to try to find that pic.
If it was a manual transmission and could be bought for a bit less I'd go for it. I have no interest in a tiptronic 911...
At some point the number of miles becomes irrelevant and the maintenance is what drives the cost. IF all the maintenance was up to date and a compression test was within spec I consider that car.
My current truck has over 300K and at some point, the number of miles it traveled stopped mattering to me and the truck. It seems to have a number of things that need repair and replacement at 50K and 100k intervals. I may consider replacement of the engine at 350K not because it is running bad but because I have a rear main seal leak that is keeping the rust a bay but the cost to R&R the trans and what not versus replacing the motor is not that much different so I am thinking that may be a better option. Hell If I found a 50-100K trans and the motor combo I would consider just swapping them both as a unit. That may actually be cheaper.
I agree that at some point the mileage becomes a badge of honor. My last Sirocco had just shy of 320k on it when I sold it and never let me down.
However, I am absolutely willing to take my chances on a $1200 beater that I can fix with a rock and a sharp stick; $15k Porsche? Certainly less so.
I wonder what it would part out for. At some point you're up against that as far as resale value. Nobody is going to sell a pile of parts worth $35k for $1500 no matter how many miles are on it.
(The $35k was a wild guess but I wouldn't be surprised if a full tear down and sell off yielded that.)
Having read the PCA article on this car last summer, and having read "T2"'s posts on one of the renn sites, I don't think its a terrible deal. Its been well maintained and will take a new owner willing to do the same.
Been thinking about this one. At what point is the chassis just worn out / tired? Are 996s prone to any metal fatigue issues like the E46?
I have never heard of a chassis problem with a Porsche. Well, except for the 917, but the solved that by pressurizing the tubeframe so they could monitor it for cracks easily.
Dad's 911 is closer to 400,000 than it is to 300,000, still runs like a German sewing machine.
I am kind of bummed but I guess I kind of understand why it's an auto. It would have to be pretty tiresome to row your own gears for almost 600k miles. Granted it would have to be A LOT of highway miles, but still...
I would have to think if he got any reimbursement for mileage driven he would have to be doing okay. I wonder what brings you to actually sell this instead of seeing just how long you can keep it going. Some of that price has to be the notoriety/sentimental value of something that has gone this far.
That's a ton of miles.
I'm doing 40-50k miles a year rowing my own gears. I haven't found it tiresome yet.
Unfortunately I am in a Cruze which new cost less than his asking price. I am probably getting a better deal at .535 cents a mile. Crappy thing is that is going to flat rate soon 
I regret not buying pretty much every one of the extremely high-miles semi-exotics i've ever seen that i could have theoretically afforded. If this car had come up localish to me when i was buying my Carrera 2, i would probably have tried for it. As far as i'm concerned, the mileage makes the car substantially more interesting than it already is.
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