Have I bought a lemon?

deMort said:

I've read your other posts but didn't comment .. you have now asked for an opinion so i will comment ..

Press cars are usually the very first of a new model .. press get to drive the car and make an opinion to publish what they think .

I'm not sure of the age of your car , i think it was 2009 but it depends on the build date as to whether this is one of the first of this model .

Press or not it doesn't make much difference .. it does however make a difference on just how it was driven and so you need to see what the over revs say ..

These are the ranges above what the car is designed to do .. they range from 1-6 with with each one being 200 rpm more than the last .. when it gets to 6 then its 1200 or higher .

Range 5-6 and there is engine damage according to Porsche .. they never used to include range 4 but these days they dont give a warranty on anything from range 4-6 without an inspection and without it having done more than 200 hours of operating after the event.

Range 6 and more than a couple of rev ranges and they will not warranty it at all .

In short .. if you haven't already got a rev range readout of the car .. and you should have when spending this sort of money then you need to get it checked .

If only a few in 1-3 then that isn't a problem .

Corrosion .. i've seen worse .. this strikes me as a coastal car .. most of it is surface corrosion .. there are no gaping holes and again to be honest i've never seen holes in one of these so far .. that's 996 onwards .

Yours will need some corrective work as you are well aware .

It looks bad but its not in the realms of a Datsun shall we say .

All in all its a shock .. shinny on the outside and not so nice on the underside .. unsure if you have redress with the seller but thats who i would be talking to first .

A bit harsh perhaps from me .. but i keep saying .. ppi first then decide .. sorry .

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997_2_C4S said:

So... long story short... all of my research told me that I didn't need to worry about underbody corrosion as 997.2s were so well protected from the factory etc, so didn't think to remove plastic under trays and sill covers to inspect before I bought my 997.2 C4S from Ashgood. Anyway, turns out it's rusty as **** underneath, as my other thread on here. That's being cut out and sorted and hopefully all cleaned up by a specialist at a cost of £2k but my concern now is that someone else (on here) mentioned it may have been a press car, which of course it is my worse nightmare as it would have been caned with zero sympathy.

How do I find out if it was a press car? The reg was RE58 YUT which obviously fits with Porsche GB in Reading. It's an early gen 2 car, so could easily have been a press car, but it's manual and most tests seem to have been PDK. There's no sports chrono or sports seats, so that makes it slightly less likely to be a press car. It does have sports exhaust, PASM, short shift though.

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