Gone To The Dark Side ...

[Grant Lenahan]

I am well aware of the IMS and planned to tell her about it. When the clutch is out its a fairly easy - albeit $1500 - repair to put in the gold-plated pone from LN engineering, as I did. 

problem is over-blown, resulting in low prices (good) for solid cars (good) that can be retrofitted for far less than the depreciation hit (better)

Grant
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:22 PM, John Larson wrote:

> On 11:59 AM, Grant Lenahan wrote:
>> Agree. Nice cars, and significantly easier to work on/ fix than many audis.
>> 
>> FWIW older boxsters are very good deals and extremely durable.  If you ever get that desire again, email me - i can give you some good guidance there.
>> 
>> Grant
>> On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Kent McLean wrote:
>> 
>>> Fay Kelley wrote:
>>>> 2007 328i
>>> 
>>> BMWs are nice if you live where it doesn't snow.
>>> Judging by the palm trees, that's a safe bet.
>>> 
>>> Enjoy.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Kent McLean
>>> 1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
>>> 1990 200 Avant mit V8 conversion
>>> gone: too many to count, including my first, "Bad Puppy"
>>> 
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>> 
> Dunno how THIS one got by me!  Might wanna do a little research on earlier Boxsters, and their big brother, too.  The engines have a designed in catastrophic failure mode which usually results in shopping for a new engine (priced at a level higher than the market value of the car WITH a fresh engine).  Google "Boxster intermediate shaft bearing failure" and peruse some of the links.  Scary.
> 
> John
>