Obviously I've already made my views clear on this before. :grin:
I will NEVER, EVER, take a perfectly good running car off the road for weeks or months, to spend almost the value of the car again, on having the engine rebuilt.
I like my 996 and have zero plans to sell it unless I come into an £80k budget for a replacement anytime soon, but at the same time do I like it enough to say I categorically will never part with it? Unfortunately not. I'll be back in a GT3 or something aircooled when the funds become available again.
So I think it depends on your ownership plans.
My car is on 75k miles. If I do 3k-5k per year, I have ten years use before I hit 105k-125k. If I get to that without a rebuild then happy days.
I'll know by then what my long term plans are with the car.
I've posted this one before. My Indy has looked after it for years. Run on an absolute shoestring yet still on original everything.
As I also said at the time, imagine the owner had coughed up for a preemptive rebuild at 100k. He'd have sold himself short by 73k.
This was a year ago so probably past 180k now.
The preemptive rebuild is another example of forum hysteria, for people with more money than sense. Rebuilding healthy engines "just incase" ??
Lunacy. :frustrated:
These cars aren't rare or special. Nice, yes, but nothing special. I'll save my funds and make some amazing experiences/memories on holidays and other aspects of life.
All just my 2p though. :thumb: