wozy said:
180K miles? .......... barely run in .
In all seriousness, if she's had decent service history, drives straight, brakes straight, vin and service book match, she doesn't smoke, she hasn't horrendous rot and the money's right <£32K, it wouldn't bother me in the least.
Mileage really shouldn't be a judgement on these cars. I've seen some awful <70K mileage 911s in my time.
OPC Tewkesbury has a tip for sale at the moment with just shy of 50K miles under her belt. She's up for the super value price of £72K lol. ....... and I could see surface rust on the lower near side front cill.
A lot of the expensive items to replace on these cars are as much age related rather than how many miles the beasty has done. :thumb:
I'd totally echo Wozy here. I purchased my 993 at a mileage of 150k. Now, I got mine for a song knowing nothing had been done and it would require at least 10k sort (minor OCD has made this a lot more though- just depends on how far gone you are!). Let me clear though, I've done that work over a few years as and when the money tree grows back. So that's always a viable route.
So unless you want to be unloading that sort of dosh just make sure suspension, oil return tubes, lower cam covers, exhaust (as per Wozy's recent thread that's 3-4K for a proper job) etc etc. The cars not going to be perfect and god knows I doubt many 993s would be without a nut & bolt resto. It will probably leak a small amount of oil but that's par for the course. If you can satisfy yourself that the nastier bills have been sorted; a purchase price of early 30s would be a good buy. I'd hold out for a manual in which case mid 30d for that sort of mileage is realistic.
And if it breaks you can always just look at it. Just ask the garage queens!