£52000 mistake? Long winded story, sorry, but keep with it.
An aquaintance of mine called me today for advice. Evidently his brother had gone and bought a very low mileage 996, just a few thousand miles on it.
A beauty.
Or was it?
He bought it from a main dealer, but not a Porsche dealer, there was a small fault on the screenwash so off it went to the local Porsche dealer.
The Porsche dealer looked at the label under the bonnet (front lid), you know the white label that should be in place on Porsche since the eighties and the dealer noticed the ink was 'bleeding'.
Upon inspection of the chassis plate on the bulkhead they noticed the last four digits were not as neat as the rest.
Police were called.
It gets better.
The police checked the number, said they knew about the car, it had been stolen and recoverd three days later......but already had the chassis plate altered. So the Insurance compant took the car (well I wouldnt want it anymore) and sold it as salvage.
The original number, with the police blessing was re-stamped and the police affixes an'AFS' label to it (which supposedly makes it right).
But this new owner has a problem, with a 'story' car and a 'meddled' chassis.
The 'big' dealer wont take it back.
And its probably not worth pursuing in the courts.
So the moral of the story...........check the three chassis numbers against the Documents on any Porsche irrespective of its value. Its quick, easy and not 'impolite'.
The numbers are;
1. On the white label stuck to the underside of the front lid (these sometimes do go missing after panel replacements).
2. Check the chassis 'tag' plate on oldr models (this is the alloy plate rivveted to the inner wing, or on later cars its the plate visible through the windscreen.
3. Check the 'stamped' number, depending on model, its behind the spare wheel or up by the bulkhead.
The vehicle handbook will tell you the excact location of the numbers.
Before you go to buy, familiarise yourself with the look of the 'tags' on a friend car.
It really doesn't matter from whom your buying, the seller may not be aware of the problem. So be careful.
Adrian Crawford. Performance2and4. 911secrets revealed .
p.s. Can anyone tell me more about this 'AFS' special Police label?
Migration info. Legacy thread was 6510
An aquaintance of mine called me today for advice. Evidently his brother had gone and bought a very low mileage 996, just a few thousand miles on it.
A beauty.
Or was it?
He bought it from a main dealer, but not a Porsche dealer, there was a small fault on the screenwash so off it went to the local Porsche dealer.
The Porsche dealer looked at the label under the bonnet (front lid), you know the white label that should be in place on Porsche since the eighties and the dealer noticed the ink was 'bleeding'.
Upon inspection of the chassis plate on the bulkhead they noticed the last four digits were not as neat as the rest.
Police were called.
It gets better.
The police checked the number, said they knew about the car, it had been stolen and recoverd three days later......but already had the chassis plate altered. So the Insurance compant took the car (well I wouldnt want it anymore) and sold it as salvage.
The original number, with the police blessing was re-stamped and the police affixes an'AFS' label to it (which supposedly makes it right).
But this new owner has a problem, with a 'story' car and a 'meddled' chassis.
The 'big' dealer wont take it back.
And its probably not worth pursuing in the courts.
So the moral of the story...........check the three chassis numbers against the Documents on any Porsche irrespective of its value. Its quick, easy and not 'impolite'.
The numbers are;
1. On the white label stuck to the underside of the front lid (these sometimes do go missing after panel replacements).
2. Check the chassis 'tag' plate on oldr models (this is the alloy plate rivveted to the inner wing, or on later cars its the plate visible through the windscreen.
3. Check the 'stamped' number, depending on model, its behind the spare wheel or up by the bulkhead.
The vehicle handbook will tell you the excact location of the numbers.
Before you go to buy, familiarise yourself with the look of the 'tags' on a friend car.
It really doesn't matter from whom your buying, the seller may not be aware of the problem. So be careful.
Adrian Crawford. Performance2and4. 911secrets revealed .
p.s. Can anyone tell me more about this 'AFS' special Police label?
Migration info. Legacy thread was 6510
