Agree, if it is a full 6 bore rebuild then £22 - £25 would be my estimate, a lot might depend on what else was done at the time of the rebuild and overall condition! The engine bay on the ebay one looks a bit uncared for to me but hard to tell without viewing!
Base spec (???) non S Tip 05 with 81k miles, would say £17 to £18k without the rebuild, so £22k to £23k with the rebuild, depending on whats been done. I would want to see the bill from Hartech to check what's been done......
Don't get hung up on a rebuilt car, there are plenty (lets call it 95%) that won't have bore score.......
...you would have to be brave or stupid not to buy a rebuilt car for a few grand more than a non rebuilt one...it's not just bore score you know :dont know:
I wouldn't touch a Gen 1 3.8 (or 3.6) tip without some cast iron guarantee that the bores were clean, it had a LTT and running on the Millers stuff and after all that I'd still be scared of giving it beans at the least known expected time.
You only have to type in "Hartech" in autotrader and you get a page full of Gen 1 3.8 tiptronics........which tells a tale in itself
Agree with the tiptronic comment, I test drove a tip 997 S and it completely crushed the 997 dream until I drove a manual a year later! That's another topic though.
...you would have to be brave or stupid not to buy a rebuilt car for a few grand more than a non rebuilt one...it's not just bore score you know :dont know:
This is misleading and complete *****. You really shouldn't be sharing "internet wisdom" on here, this isn't pistonheads. We actually know what we are talking about. If you want to limit yourself to a rebuilt car that's fine, but seriously, as we know bore score is 3% to 5% of cars, and IMS is the older version in 2005 cars and before (small generalisation there, yes of course I know it's an engine range number thing....) then newer IMS cars, 19 of 20 are perfectly fine. More importantly, we now know so much more about the problems and what causes them and the way to prevent them, warm it up properly, LTT (though possibly not) etc. mean far less are failing these days because we look after them. Sure some will still fail, but what magnificent cars they are.
Really had enough of the doom mongering ***** artists on here spraying misinformation around. Realise you meant to be sharing knowledge so people can make informed decisions. If you don't want any risk, don't go outside ever, after all, I'm sure my cousin had a friend who had a teacher who had a goldfish which got run over by a bus once, so you shouldn't risk going outside ever.