I figure I might as well use this blog to document some of the things I’m doing with the new (old) car.
Here’s how it looked on the day that I first went to have a look at it.
It was a 2003 Boxster S with about 32,000kms on the clock. The exterior was in virtually perfect condition, the interior not far behind. My brother came with me to have a quick look at the mechanicals and said it looked okay to him. The previous owner had put brand new brake pads on it to pass the roadworthy, which made the test drive a bit exciting as they hadn’t quite bedded in yet… oops!
Obvious faults that I noticed were a rattle in the exhaust (which my brother tracked down to a loose heat shield bolt) and broken clips in the wind blocker behind the seats – both of which would be cheap fixes that I could do myself.
I was worried that the Porsche hadn’t had an oil change in two years. I asked the owner to change the oil during the roadworthy test.
Long story short, I bought it. More in a bit!
